Digital cameras are great and storage cards are now very inexpensive — you can easily get a four gigabyte card for under $30. Together they’ve freed you from the tyranny of 1-hour photo processing, but it’s also easy to take hundreds of pictures of varying quality at any occasion.
When you get home and are ready to copy them to your computer, reality steps in. You ask yourself, how am I ever going to keep track of all these pictures much less do something useful with them? If your computer runs Windows, one good solution is to use Google’s free photo editing and management tool, Picasa.
After downloading and installing Picasa, it immediately begins to find and organize all of the pictures on your computer. If there are pictures that you might prefer are excluded from Picasa you can configure it to either include or exclude directories.
From there you can edit your pictures, adjust them for exposure and color, apply effects and then share them by emailing or posting the pictures to Picasa Web Album which is the Google equivalent of Yahoo’s Flickr.
If you’re a Mac user like me, there is hope we may have a Picasa for us someday, see the TechCrunch story below.
Download Picasa.
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