September 5, 2008: Google has released a beta update for its popular Picasa image editor and file manager.
Picasa 3.0 beta is a freeware application for Windows that is designed to enable digital photographers to easily organise, print and edit their photos. New tools in Picasa 3 provide a wide range of editing controls, which require little or no technical knowledge to use. They include a drag-and-drop photo collage tool, a retouching brush to wipe out scratches and blemishes, a slide show movie maker that uploads to YouTube, an auto red-eye removal tool, smart auto-cropping, and a fast-launching Photo Viewer to inspect and manipulate images while in the Windows file system.
As in previous versions, Picasa will automatically find and sort the photos on your hard drive, and allow you to drag and drop photos into folders or add custom tags. It leaves original files undisturbed on users' hard drives, eliminating the risk of overwriting or altering originals. Picasa also integrates seamlessly with the free online photo sharing site, Picasa Web Albums – which has also received a major update. With one click in Picasa 3, users can sync albums from their PCs to the web so that any changes or additions made on PCs are automatically reflected in web galleries. Also users can download any photos out of Picasa Web Albums.
For more information and to download the new software, visit http://picasa.google.com/.
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