Picassa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picassa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can also edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.

	"It's just superb and impressive. But the most important thing is that its user friendly. To enjoy digital photography you must have PICASA!" - Thiagaran R.*
	Features of Picassa:
	•	Organise Organise your pictures using labels and stars. Picassa makes it so much easier.
	•	Captions Easly write captions for your pictures.
	•	Order prints Order prints from your favorite sites.
	•	Edit Photo editing has never been easier. Edit pictures basic fixes, 12 lightning and colour effects.
	•	Burn CD Make CD backups and gifts.

Picassa makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. Picasa also makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos at home, and make gift CDs. And with the new Web Albums feature, you can upload your photos to the web with just one click. You can even download your friends' photos directly back to Google Picassa on your own computer. It's never been so easy to share photos online.

Top reasons to use Google Picassa

Testimonials:

"Picasa has made organizing pictures much easier. My favorite feature is the ability to email pics that are compressed into a smaller file. Thanks for this great piece of software and keep up the great work!" - Troy E.

"I took my digital camera to Europe last summer, and now I can remember my wonderful trip all year long thanks to Picasa. I wish I had taken more pictures, I didn't realize I would enjoy them so much! And it was so easy with Picasa!" - Cathy E.

"It's just superb and impressive. But the most important thing is that its user friendly. To enjoy digital photography you must have PICASSA!" -

* - Google Picasa user testimonial page

 

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Google Picassa - most often searched key phrases.

I've checked what kind of Picasa-related searches people perform and after checking the Overture's Keyword Selector Tool I got this list (number of searches in January): picassa, 2 picassa, google picassa, download picassa, album picassa web, picassa web, 2 download picassa, download free picassa, 2 download free picassa, photo picassa, editing guide organizing photo picassa quickproject visual, picassa software, download google picassa, 2 google picassa, 3 picassa, picassa review, picassa picture, album photo picassa upload web, mac picassa, album picassa, hello picassa, picassa program, free picassa, google.com picassa, photo picassa software, album feature picassa update web, picassa web.google, editor photo picassa, googles picassa, picassa update, from photo picassa selected will, 2.5 picassa, 2 download picassa share, help picassa, google picassa web, picassa second, descargar picassa, download folder free photo picassa, 2.6 picassa, mail picassa, 1 picassa, 2.0 picassa, album feature photo picassa update web, photo picassa program, picassa tutorial, 98 picassa window, free picassa software, 2 picassa review, album gmail picassa web, flickr picassa, linux picassa, photo picassa shop, photo picassa upload web, picassa picassa, editing photo picassa, com picassa, album photo picassa, album picassa update web.

Picassa Blog:

Picasa WebAlbums Assistant
Picassa WebAlbums Assistant allows you to download entire albums or parts of albums from Picasa Web albums. Download public albums buy entering the UserID of the owner. Download private albums by pasting an invitation URL. Includes thumbnail previews of the pictures with check boxes to select only the pictures you want to download. Great piece [...]

Google bringing Picasa to the Mac later this year
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Add Picassa to your Iphone
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Picassa brings picture sharing to Tivo
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Picassa storage limit increase
On August, 10, Mountain View-based Google announced a major storage upgrade for its online e-mail service Gmail and Picasa users by increasing the storage limit from standard 1GB free storage for Picassa and 2.8GB for Gmail to up to 250GB of storage, which Google will offer for a fee.Once a user reaches the standard limit [...]

Google adds face recognition technology to Picassa
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Picassa goes mobile, put pictures on a map
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Picassa Web albums
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Wordpress Plugin - Picasa gallery within your blog.
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Google packs together free software
Google packs together free, great softwareClever Google. Now the advertising megalith (which also does some, um, Web searching) is offering a quick-and-easy start-up software package that puts a lot of Google stuff on the user’s computer.Called Google Pack, it’s a collection of mostly useful tools, not all of them from Google, that are free and [...]