How Does Picasa Work?
- Picasa is a type of computer software that allows a person to organize and edit digital photographs. Picasa is currently owned by Google, and the company offers it as a free download for all users. The name of the application is a combination of the last name of painter Pablo Picasso and the phrase "mi casa," which means "my house" in Spanish. The software was created by Idealab before being acquired by Google in 2004.
- Once downloaded off of the official site and installed onto the hard drive, Picasa can be used to view, edit, track and import digital images that are uploaded onto one's computer. The software contains tagging, tracking and importing features for organizing photos into various lists and folders for easier access. There are also basic editing features that can be used to remove red eye, enhance the colors in a photo, crop a photo, create collages, resize the file size of a photo and print the photo using online photo printing options.
- The software has a variety of features in addition to the main ones that make it easy and convenient to store digital photos on one's personal computer. Picasa has an internal search engine that enables finding photos easily according to the keyword attached to them or the file name given to them. It also has a slideshow feature that allows photos to be viewed in succession, separated by a few seconds. Users can share images with the Picasa Web Albums feature, which allows up to 1GB of photos to be shared with other Google account holders.
