Picasa App For Windows 10

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Windows 10 Photo folders. While I don’t see any face detection features, the Windows 10 Photo’s app looks like its going to be my replacement for Picasa, and to be honest, It seems to be working so great that even if Picasa hadn’t killed Picasa, I might have started using it anyway. I’m kinda kicking myself for not using it sooner. Picasa for Windows 10: Recently the google has to announce its new photo, and video favourite storing and sharing service is called Google Photos. To focus on Google Photos, it gives up work to Picasa. So when you were finding the Picasa photo editor app, you must be seen google photos app.

Velaikaran songs download in masstamilan. Windows has its fair share of photo management programs, but we've chosen Picasa as the best for its impressive feature set and relative ease of use.

Picasa

Platform: Windows/Mac/Linux
Price: Free
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Features

  • Easily import photos from your camera, flash drive, or hard drive
  • Scan specific folders on your hard drive and automatically add new photos to your library
  • Automatically sort photos by date and event
  • Facial recognition that allows sorting by person
  • Geotag photos and view albums on a global map
  • Fix issues like red eye, color, and lighting with a simple, easy-to-use photo editor
  • Design and create photo collages, video slideshows, screensavers, and more
  • Share photos via email or through Picasa Web Albums

Where It Excels

Picasa's main strengths come in the form of organizational power and simplicity in editing. If you want an advanced photo editor, go somewhere else, but Picasa is perfect for the regular home user that just wants to organize their photos and make them look a little better without doing much work (or knowing a whole lot about photo editing). You can organize photos from all over your hard drive, sync them with Picasa's web albums, sort your photos by the people in them, and make all sorts of fancy slideshows to show your friends. You can also perform a few edits on things like lighting and color, most of which are automated by Picasa. You can perform a few manual edits, but not a lot—perfect for those that don't want to be overwhelmed.

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Where It Falls Short

Unfortunately, Picasa's biggest strengths are also its biggest weaknesses. Its organizational powers are great, but a little confusing at first. When you start up Picasa, it will search your entire hard drive for images and put them into your library. This is great for the disorganized, but will leave you with a huge amount of image (wallpapers, icons, and whatever else) that you certainly don't want in your photo editor. You can edit this from Picasa's Folder Manager, but it isn't obvious or easy to find, which can cause a lot of stress on new users.

Similarly, it gives you barely any control over editing your photos. For the most part, you either get the photo you took, or you get the photo you took that Picasa corrected for you. You have a few manual sliders available like highlights, shadows, and color temperature, but that's about it. That said, its auto-correct features do a really good job at correcting your photos, so you won't be disappointed unless maybe you're a photography nut.

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Picasa also only syncs to Picasa Web Albums, which is annoying. If you want to upload to any other non-Google service, like Facebook or Flickr, you'll need a pluginor two to do so.

The Competition

Most basic photo editors are pretty similar to Picasa. Windows Live Photo Gallery is a popular option that integrates well with Windows, allows uploading to SkyDrive, Facebook, and Flickr, and even has a handy panoramic stitch feature that Picasa is missing. It doesn't, however, have Picasa's video editing features, Picasa Web Albums support, nor is it quite as pretty or easy to use. Another thing people like about it, though is its ability to actually save changes—like names of people or geotag information—to the metadata of the file, which Picasa does not do (though that may be preferable to some). The free version of Zoner is a good option if you don't like Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery, and its $45 Home version or $65 Pro version are a nice step up to more intermediate and advanced editing features.

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More seasoned photography buffs will want to check out Adobe Lightroom, which is going to give you many more advanced editing options.

Picasa App For Pc

Lastly, as Adam mentioned in his App Directory entry for the Mac, you can always just keep your photos in a series of folders on your hard drive. You don't have to deal with bloated organization programs with features you don't need, you can organize your photos however you want, and even sync them up to the web with Dropbox. It isn't for everyone, but if photo management apps just tend to get in your way, there's no shame in cultivating a very organized My Pictures folder.

Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.

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How to install Picasa on Windows 7, 8, 10

Contents

Install Picasa on Windows

Make sure you have the most recent version of Picasa by following these steps:
  1. Go to the Picasa Help menu > About Picasa
  2. In the About box near the middle is listed the Version & Build number
  3. If it is earlier than Version 3.9.141 build 259, go HERE to install the latest (and final) version of Picasa over your present version

Tips for setting up Picasa3

  1. Choose the discs or folders to be scanned (displayed by Picasa), such as your 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' folder on your computer. If you have pictures or videos anywhere besides that folder, then choose those other folders as well. You can always make selections later at Tools > Folder Manager.
    1. In the Folder Manager, folders may have a green check mark for 'Scan Once' - change that to 'Scan Always'
    2. For files you want scanned from an external drive, see How to move pictures to an external hard disk
  2. Select your viewer - the default is the Picasa Photo Viewer. This can be changed later under Tools > Configure Photo Viewer > File Types tab (select 'Don't use Picasa Viewer')
  3. If you're presented with the option to install 'Autobackup' - don't install it. You can later decide whether you want to use Google Photos Backup (Desktop Uploader) and install it from: https://photos.google.com/apps)
    1. With Google Photos Backup, all your photos from your computer will upload to Google Photos - choose a photo size
      1. High quality (free unlimited storage at your Google account)
      2. Original (full resolution that counts against your storage quota in your Google account)
    2. Uploading can take a long time if you have a large photo/video collection and depending on your internet speed
    3. If you ever need to download the backed up files, see directions here: Click
    4. Google Photos Backup is a separate program on your computer which you can access by clicking the pinwheel icon in your Notifications Area of Windows. Click Settings to change the Photo size of uploads.
  4. In Picasa3, go to View > Folder View and change the default 'Flat Folder View' to 'Tree View'
    1. Tree View is how your folders are displayed in Windows
  5. Go back to View > Folder View and select 'Sort by Name'
  6. Under View, select 'Small Pictures' and 'Hidden Pictures'
  7. Under View > Thumbnail Caption, choose 'Filename'
  8. Go to Tools > Options > File Types tab and select everything so all photos and videos will be displayed in Picasa; click OK.
  9. Go to Tools > Options > General tab - for Automatic updates select 'Don't check for updates,' click OK
  10. If you choose to use Name Tags for facial recognition, be aware that with the discontinuation of Picasa Web Albums, name tags applied to photos won't display in Google Photos because Google Photos has it's own automatic facial recognition feature.
    1. Under Tools > Options > Name Tags tab, you can deselect everything so that name tags won't be created.
    2. If you do want to use name tags and select 'Enable face detection' and 'Enable suggestions' be sure to click 'Store name tags in photo' then click OK

How to add Picasa to the Start menu and Taskbar; create a desktop shortcut

  1. Add Picasa to the Start menu or Taskbar
    1. Go to Windows Start menu then type picasa3
    2. Right-click on the Picasa3 icon
    3. Click 'Pin to Start' and/or 'Pin to Taskbar'
  2. Create a Picasa desktop shortcut
    1. Go to Windows Start menu then type picasa3
    2. Right-click the Picasa3 icon
    3. Select 'Open File Location'
    4. Right-click the Picasa3 program then select 'Send to' then 'Desktop (create shortcut)'
If you have videos or movies in your collection, you may need to install video codecs, Picasa doesn't have a lot of video support built in.
See 'Why are my videos not shown (properly) in Picasa?'

Google Photos Backup - Desktop Uploader

For more information, see 'Google Photos Backup app (Desktop Uploader)'