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Picasa2 is a Powerful Free Image Management Tool

Picasa2 is a Powerful Free Image Management Tool

by Rick Hendershot, Linknet Resources and Product Reviews

Picasa2 is not really a web tool, but an image editor you install on your local computer to help you organize, edit, and adjust your digital photos. Most digital cameras come with built-in software, but Picasa tries to give you something better and more comprehensive.

This program is currently being distributed by Google, so you can be sure that it has something going for it.

The focus with Picasa is on image organization. So it will turn entire folders into slide shows. Or it will take a number of images and turn them into a collage. It will even work with videos (I think).

It will also help you integrate your images with other programs like Hello - an online image sharing program, Blogger - Google's own blogging site, and, of course, your email program. There is really too much here to grasp without playing around with the program for a few hours.

Picassa also has sufficiently powerful image editing tools to make it a useful (free) substitute for more expensive and complicated image editors like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It will let you adjust contrast, sharpen, adjust colours, apply several filters, and, of course crop and adjust the size of your images.

This is one of the new breed of online tools that caters to people without an extensive computer and/or image editing background. So it makes a serious attempt to replace the standard (technical) language and ways of thinking typically used by computer geeks and imaging professionals (of which I am both).

Image editing Picasa-style is no longer a matter of having an infinite number of adjustment options. This traditional approach is too confusing for the novice. Like many of the new breed of supposedly user-friendly programs, Picassa just gives you a few "standard" settings. The cropping tool, for instance, lets you choose between 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10 or "manual". And the manual tool does not let you key in a specific pixel size. That means if you want to do 400 x 300 pixels (as I did), you have to play around with it until you get something close. Or at least, I think that is what you have to do. New breed tools shy away from being specific. They are all about metaphors.

The same goes for "saving" your work. I guess the concept of "saving" files is too technical for the average picture taker (are we talking about camera-phones here?). Picassa lets you mess around with an image, and then seems to automatically save it somewhere, although you never quite know where. The idea (I assume) is that this is more intuitive, but I find my desire to know what is going on hard to overcome.

On the whole I think Picassa could be very useful, if I could just get over the feeling that I am being spoonfed paradigm changes that aren't completely necessary.

Rick Hendershot is publisher of the Linknet Network.

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