What a week for Google, on Tuesday they released their own browser, Google Chrome, which has already passed Opera in number of users (Microsoft, you better be worried), and on Wednesday an impressive update was provided to Picasa. Beta version 3.0 has a ton of new features, here they are:
- The new Blemish Tool which is similar to the clone tool in Photoshop and Eyedropper in Corel Photopaint allows the removal of unwanted areas in a photo. Unlike Photoshop or Photopaint, a preview is given before the effect is applied.
- Red-Eye removal is improved to provide better color matching of pupils.
- Picasa now has Video editing, although basic, you can do such things as add soundtracks, title cards, and place photos together with various transition effects.
- Picasa now has its own Photo Viewer, and is much better than the Windows Photo and Fax viewer.
- Collages can be automatically produced from a picture folder and has a bunch of options.
- Cropping is made a lot easier. Picasa provides 3 automatic cropping selections, along with preview thumbnails, manual mode and other ratios are also provided.
- The coolest feature is Face Recognition. Within the program Picasa 3, photos can be filtered by those having faces. In Picasa Web Albums, name tags are possible, a face in a photo is tagged and pictures with that same face are found. So unlike Facebook which requires tagging every person in a photo, Web Albums can automatically do it for you.
- There is a new sync to web feature that automatically updates online albums when photos are added/edited on the computer.
- The program is much faster.
- A new text tool has been added to easily add text to any photo.
- There is a new Explore page that allows viewing of public photos all around the world.
As you can tell, this is a massive update. Unless your into some heavy photo editing, save your money and go with Google Picasa.
Picasa 3.0: Impressive Update
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