Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Download Picasa - Organize Your Pictures

The boom of popular and affordable Digital Cameras has generated an increased Need for Digital Imaging Software. One important requirements is the ability to Organize and perform basic image enhancements on the Digital Pictures.

The most common requirements on Digital Pictures are:

- The ability to organize the digital material and access to all digital pictures from one application

- An overview of all taken pictures over the time

- The ability to perform basic editing operations like red-eye removal, improve color saturation and sharpening

- The ability to create Slide Shows in a very easy and intuitive way

- To burn Gift CD´s with Pictures inside

- To create Photo Web Pages for the publication of digital pictures on the web

- To add Labels for every image

- To create high quality prints

Additional to the mentioned basic functions, the application should be able to Perform a Ranking within all available images in order to choose the best ones.

Also the ability to order Photo-prints, Photo-Books, create Posters, collages or Movies (i.e. to create DVDs). The movie should be able to use also high quality Video compression Codecs like DivX.

While Mac Users have a "built-in" application with iPhoto able to perform all mentioned features, PC Users had to buy additional software like Adobe´s Album.

In the meanwhile, Free Software like Picasa is available, offering similar functions as expensive specialized applications.

Picasa is being promoted by Google, there are several places where the software can be downloaded for free, i.e. in http://www.101homebiz.com/picasa

The User Interface of Picasa is intuitive and easy to use. All functions are where one would expect them. The application makes a solid and reliable impression.

It is obvious that Google is intending to put a feed in the fast growing Digital Imaging business. With the free distribution of this excellent software product the Search Engine giant has performed a very good choice.

Alex Timaios is a international Stock Photographer. He is specialized in Business, Nature and Travel photography. He runs the website http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alex_Timaios

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