Picasa

Picasa is a free, comprehensive photo editing tool that allows users to manage and edit their photos as they wish.

Note: Picasa has been discontinued. You can download the old version; however, you may experience performance issues and security issues.

Picasa stands out as an image viewing and editing tool that we can use on our computers with Windows operating system. Thanks to this simple and practical program signed by Google, we can view the images we store on our computer and make them more interesting with minor adjustments.

As it is known, Photoshop comes to mind first when it comes to picture and photo editing program. Making a difference with its simplicity in this category dominated by Photoshop, Picasa is a program that can be easily used by everyone. Thanks to its uncomplicated design, interface that guides users effectively and the functional tools it offers, Picasa manages to be among the first choices of anyone looking for a free but effective image editing program.

So what can we do with Picasa? First of all, thanks to the program, we have the opportunity to manage and view the photos we store under different folders on our computer from a single center. Obviously, although there are many alternatives in the category of photo imaging programs, Picasa takes the lead. Thanks to its feature called Picasa Web Album, we can easily organize our photos both online and offline and manage them according to our expectations.

Among the most striking features of Picasa are facial recognition and location tagging features. Thanks to its facial recognition technology, Picasa scans our library and combines the same faces it detects under a common tag umbrella. Of course, the processing time is directly proportional to the amount of photos. The location tagging feature gives users the chance to add location information to the photos they take. In order to use this feature, which is integrated with Google Maps, it is sufficient to click the ‘Places’ button, open Google Maps and select the appropriate location.

Picasa Features

• High-level security: By adding passwords to photos that we do not want to be seen by others, we can store them more securely.
• Photo voting: Thanks to this feature, which we can use to distinguish our favorite photos from others, we can find them more easily next time.
• Photo effects: Picasa offers eye-catching filters and all filters can be added to photos with just one click.
• Photo editing tools: We can perform operations such as cutting, cropping, red-eye correction, color adjustments, with a few clicks. We can even bring together a few of our photos in the same frame by using collage tools, and we can prepare interesting collages.
• Backup solutions: We use the backup feature to avoid losing our photos.
• Creating a poster: We can enlarge the pictures to the size of our expectations without compromising the quality of the pictures, bring them to the size of a poster and print them.
• Advanced web integration: We can instantly publish the photos we like on our personal blog or embed them on our website.

Picasa, which we can summarize as a successful photo editing and viewing program in general, is among the best you can find for free. Moreover, you can easily use Picasa without having any knowledge.