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Introduction to Picasa Image Viewer.
What do you know about Picasa? Many of us still do not know about Picasa
or heard of it. Some of us may have heard of it but have not seen it in use or
may have but do not understand it at all. Some do not know is an image viewer.
Some have it installed on the Personnel Computer all because they saw it in
other peoples Computer and so also, it may be installed in their computer by
their engineer to act as their substitute image viewer. These people may not
even remember it Picasa is residing in their computer or may not know their
engineer may have installed it in their PC till someone else decide to load it
on or look for another image viewer in the PC. Some engineers may set it as the
default image viewer for the PC owners to eventually use Picasa and the may not
know it but they will surely notice it beauty as the use it and its difference
from the previous or default image viewer and they still do not know that
Picasa is owned by Google.
Microsoft Image viewer has come a long way since Windows XP days and it’s
still the default to so many users. Microsoft Image viewer has really evolved
from the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows XP and Windows Photo
Gallery in Windows Vista, While on Windows 7, it is Windows Photo Viewer
and also for Windows 8 but still have the Windows Universal App Photo and on Windows
10 it is the same Windows Universal App but this time, it is far more advance
but poor photo organization and its experiencing much in update.
So many Users believer the best
application to be used as default it is the app that came with the PC or made
by the manufacturer of that PC or OS. But, I have to tell you that is not true.
OS is designed so for the liberty of the user to use or install whatever
program they choose. All Programs have their own UI and the flexibility and
added operational task they offer is what makes them different from the other
as some user will say, “Is it not the
same thing they do?”
Imaging Microsoft Word and WordPad. They are both Word Processor and
these packages are from Microsoft. Why not use the one that came with the PC
alone instead of getting the CD of the other?
Enough of the wander. Now let us go to the Topic Picasa.
About Picasa
Picasa is a free image viewer and image organizer. It is designed to aid
the organization of photo for easy search of your photo. This program is owned
by Google and it runs on major Operating Systems like the Mac OSx, Linus and
your favourite Windows OS.
With Picasa, one can easily do some quick photo editing like red eye
reduction, colour balancing quick fix, cropping etc. If you expect to do a real
photo editing then you need a professional photo editor, please look elsewhere
because, your will surely not find it with Picasa.
Features of Picasa.
Just as I have stated earlier, Picasa provides a good red-eye removal
tool, with some very smooth quick fixes and effects, and even allows online
sharing. Doing editing in Picasa, there will be a .picasa.ini file stored in
that location or directory which is normally hidden which is a backup for the
original image. It makes edited photos reversible without having multiple image
saves.
Picasa also offers incredible facial recognition as well as a wonderful
search capability from Geotagging to captions, folder names, and other
metadata.
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When Picasa is opened for the first time in your computer, it will scans
your entire drives for pictures and organize them into categories which are
based on albums, people, folders and others and Picasa will continue to Update
itself once a new Photo is added to the computer if you created the photo or
saved it from the internet or from a network drive. Whenever an external device like USB cameras,
scanners, memory card readers, and CD drives is plug-in or inserted to your computer, Supports RAW files, Picasa will automatically scan and import from them.
Conclusion
Picasa is one of a complete image viewing application
that has almost all that is required for Basic photo editing and a very
beautiful image view window.
The most recent version is
Picasa v3.9.140 for the month of September as it still on beta phase and could
be downloaded for free from the Picasa official site.
