atw: OT: photo software - Picasa

  • From: Craig Hadden <craig_john_hadden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: atw <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:30:53 +1100 (EST)

(This message is off-topic, but it?s Friday so what
the hell!)

Recently a friend told me about Picasa -- a program
for organising and editing photos on your PC. 

It?s made by Google, it?s free, and it?s fabulous!
(And at only about 3 MB, it?s a snap to download, too.
Its miniscule footprint belies its staggering
features.)

You can get it from:
http://www.picasa.com 

You can read about many of its features at:
http://readme.picasa.com/public/#ed

It?s great for sharpening, brightening, and otherwise
fixing photos in just one or two clicks. (Mind you,
for fixing red-eye, the free Photoshop Album Starter
Edition is better.) 

Picasa also lets you apply lots of effects, like
graduated colour filters, soft focus, sepia, and
others. (Many more features than Photoshop Album
Starter.) And it lets you easily send photos or
slide-shows to other people.

By the way, Picasa takes ?Undo? to a whole new level:
?You can undo and redo your edits forever... you can
shut Picasa down, come back a week later, and undo a
change you didn't like.?

(That flexibility, though, comes at a price. Namely,
your changes to a photo are saved _invisibly_,
separately from the original photo file. So if you
want to do anything with the photo outside Picasa, you
have to remember to apply the changes to an actual
file. Also, Picasa logs your changes automatically, so
you?re never prompted to save your work. Those aspects
take a bit of getting used to because they're so
different from how desktop software usually works.)

Nevertheless, its graphical timeline feature blew me
away!

Enjoy!
Craig 

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