Features:

ORGANIZE

Find the pictures you forgot you had.

Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.

Move and re–name pictures from inside Picasa.

Want to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer’s hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double–checking with you. Want to change a picture’s filename from 671056398a.jpg to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re–name one picture or a group of pictures.

Make a label.

Use labels to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under a label is easy – they make great slide shows and movies or you can email them to friends.

Add a star rating.

Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second.

Keep one picture in multiple albums.

Picasa creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture into multiple albums.

Password–protect collections.

Have photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any of your Picasa collections (this does not affect which pictures you and others can see on your computer’s hard drive).

EDIT

Basic Fixes are back – and better.

Picasa’s Basic Fixes are buttons that make it fast and easy to crop, remove red–eye, fix the contrast and color, and enhance your digital pictures.

Amazing effects turn so–so pictures into works of art.

You can see how much Picasa’s 12 new visual effects can improve your photos – and in seconds, not hours. Go sepia. Warmify. Make pictures pop with color or try austere black–and–white. Try easy one–clicks or the more finely tuned sliders for better control where you want it. And of course, you can undo your changes at any step along the way.

Write captions that stay with the picture.

Picasa makes captions the way journalists do – using the IPTC standard. That means your captions are saved within their pictures and stay with them, whether you export as a web page or make a CD presentation. Picasa captions are fully editable and searchable, and you choose whether to display them or not.

Zoom. Pan. Tilt. Get the angle you intended.

So you did not get the shot? With Picasa, that is not the end of the story. Go in closer and move the focus slightly to the left. Your camera was slightly crooked? So what? Your picture is perfect anyway.

Know how to use a camera in manual mode?

Photography aficionados can now fine–tune their photos with Picasa’s EXIF display. This window shows you all the camera data that is stored in a picture’s original file – such as camera model, date the photo was taken, even if a flash was used. The EXIF display also has a RGB histogram, a real–time graph that shows the intensity of colors in your picture and how they change when you make edits in Picasa.

SHARE

Send photos via email that are a joy to receive.

Take the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google’s Gmail.

Put pictures on your own site, for free.

Picasa’s Blog This! button automatically transfers your selected pictures up to your blog.

Hello™ instant picture chat lets you share pictures back–and–forth in seconds.

Hello is Picasa’s instant–message product – it’s chat with pictures. You can send out hundreds of pictures instantly using the “Hello” button; it’s a great way to look at pictures with friends and family online. Just point at a picture or website and tell the person who sent it exactly what you think (but when you criticize their artwork, remember – they can do the same).

Hello sends pictures using an encrypted person–to–person connection, so the pictures you share are sent directly to your friend’s computer, and nowhere else online (unless you use Bloggerbot to post pictures to your blog; see below). Picasa shows shared pictures in your From Hello collection, sorted by Hello usernames. And it’s as easy to remove shared pictures as it is to get them. Find a buddy and sign up at hello.com.

Make beautiful slide shows.

With Picasa, you can turn a group of photos into a presentation with one click, then share your slide show on a CD.

Move to any device or folder.

You can take your photos with you no matter how you like to carry them. Picasa works with all the newest compact flash devices.

PRINT

Custom and standard sizes are now fit to print at home.

Picasa automatically fits your pictures perfectly onto the expensive paper used by your home printer. It’s finally easy to print wallets, 4