Picassa
Another wonderful free piece of software from Google, Picassa
is an image manager and editor that gives away powerful features
that used to be found only in for-pay software. The now mainstream
success of digital photography has brought with it masses of folks
who need to manage hundreds, even thousands of digital images and
who would like to quickly edit and improve these images (crop, brighten,
sharpen, maybe a cool effect here or there). Picassa (similar to,
but better than iPhoto on the Mac) is quite simply the
answer to these legions of digital photographers. Even expert users
of Photoshop will find the ease and speed of working with images
in Picassa a temptation. In addition, Picassa offers a smart interface
and a sense of fun, with "warmify" and "I'm feeling
lucky" being two of the image effect options. Picassa makes it
easy to turn one's images into collages, posters, movies, and other
goodies. A fundamental improvement on many other image editors,
Picassa allows one to edit and alter an image and not have to worry
about destroying the integrity of the original shot by failing to
save a separate copy of the original picture; with Picassa, one
simply edits and plays and exports pictures for the web or prints
them and, then, after even dozens of edits and weeks have passed,
one simply right clicks on an image and chooses "undo all edits"
to return to the original image.
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