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Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and now owned by Google. “Picasa” is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for “my house,” and “pic” for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering Picasa for free download. At the time of the acquisition, the company’s management team consisted of Lars Perkins as CEO, Mike Herf as CTO, and Dan Engel as VP Market Development.

Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux are available through Google Labs. For Windows 98 and Windows Me, only an older version is available. There is also an iPhoto plugin or a stand-alone program for uploading photos available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

Picasa Features

• Collage
  Experiment with six different collage types and a slew of new settings in the more hands-on collage creation screen.
• Sharing
  Why take two steps when you can do it in one? Upload an album to Picasa Web Albums and email invitations to friends and family with just one click.
• Auto red-eye
  Our improved technology automatically detects faces and corrects the red eye in your photos.
• Cropping
  The Crop tool offers three crop suggestions based on the composition of your photograph. Don’t miss the 10 different dimensions to choose from when cropping.
• Screensaver
  Spice up your screensaver by pulling in pictures from additional photo sources, such as your Web Albums and photo feeds.
• Multiple word tags
  You can now add multi-word tags to your photos. Finally, you can tag your rocking chair as ‘rocking chair,’ rather than ‘rocking’ and ‘chair.’
• Importing
  To help you import images from a particular day or event, Picasa now segments your images according to the time frame when they were taken.
• Slideshow
  Make your slideshow come alive with new capabilities.

Download Picasa 3.0 Build 57.52 Beta