Its already a well spread news that Google has acquired picasa. I got a chance to download picasa's photo organizer and use it on my buddy's machine, today.
Here's the review :-)
This wonderful sotware is available for free. What I liked the most was that even on such a low end system, the thumbanails appeared smoothly (even WinXP on that machine flickers to show thumbnails in even small folders). More to that, the thumbnails can be resized with a slider!
Next, the datewise albums... which is just wonderful. Adding keywords to each photo is very easy, too. The editing segment has the red-eye correction, rotation, cropping and a preset image enhancement. The search is too well made, and very easy to use. You can import pics from your digicam, scanner.
The best of all, was the slideshow... called the 'timelines'. The slideshow really is the exquisite piece in that whole software. You can add an MP3 to get it played during the slideshows. Additionally, there's a picture manager, where you can tell the software to keep a watch on your favourite folders. Then, there are various customizations that you can do with the albums. The whole album can be exported as a web page, making it easier to publish. Bloggers at blogger get to add the photos to their blogs, very easily. The images can also be shared with hello.
But, alas... both picasa and hello are avalable only under Microsoft windows :(
Here's the screenshot:
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