Picasa 3 Beta
Tomi Häsä
September 2, 2008
"A little over two years ago, we launched Picasa Web Albums to make
publishing photos online easy. Now Picasa Web Albums hosts billions of
online photos from around the globe, with users adding millions of new
snapshots every day."
"Today, we're rolling out major technology upgrades to both Picasa and
Picasa Web Albums. As you might have guessed, these are largely focused on
how we share and enjoy our photos with others."
"For starters, there's a brand-new feature called "name tags" in Picasa
Web Albums that helps you quickly label all the people in your photos, so
you can organize and share your photos based on who's in the picture. Name
tags uses advanced technology to automatically group similar faces
together. That way, you can quickly label all the people you care about in
your photo collection. Once you've labeled your photos, it's then a snap
to do things like create a slideshow with every picture of you and your
best friend, or easily share party photos with everybody who appears in
that photo album."
"There's more to Picasa Web Albums. The site now has a fresh, clean look
that makes photos look great, and a new "Explore" page that allows you to
browse some of the most interesting public content on our site, including
"Recent Photos," a near-real-time view of public photos uploaded to Picasa
Web Albums. You can now also email photos directly to Picasa Web Albums."
"Sharing photos with Picasa has always been remarkably simple, but in
Picasa 3, we've made sharing so simple you don't even have to lift a
finger. A new 'sync to web' button allows you to sync specified albums on
your PC to the web. If you edit or add photos to the album on your PC,
those changes will be automatically reflected on Picasa Web Albums. You
can even specify who you'd like to share your web albums with from the
Picasa software itself."
"We've packed many other new features into Picasa 3. There's a slew of
powerful new editing tools to retouch and restore photos, automatically
detect and fix red-eye, or attractively add text to your images. Plus,
there's plenty of the fun stuff -- we completely overhauled things like
photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over
composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can
blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies
that you can easily share on YouTube."
"You can learn more about Picasa 3 and the new Picasa Web Albums on the
Google Photos blog, or by watching the overview video below."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/introducing-picasa-30-and-big-changes.html
Announcing Picasa 3.0 and a new version of Picasa Web Albums!
September 2, 2008
"Today, we're pleased to announce the public beta of Picasa 3.0, the next
generation of Google's photo management software. We're also launching a
redesigned Picasa Web Albums with a brand-new 'name tags' feature, which
gives you the power to quickly label and organize your photos based on
who's in each picture."
"New controls in Picasa 3 make it much easier to quickly upload photos,
and we've added a new 'sync to web' feature that automatically updates
online albums when you add or edit photos on your computer."
"Picasa Web Albums now includes a new 'name tags' feature that helps
organize your growing photo collection by people. Opt-in to name tags, and
our technology automatically groups photos containing similar faces.
Instead of asking you to painstakingly label pictures one-by-one, name
tags lets you rapidly tag many photos at once. By doing so, you can easily
find that photo of your cousin from two years ago; create a slideshow of
you and your best friend, or share an album with everybody who appears in
the photos."
"We'll be exploring more of what's new in Picasa 3 (beta) on this blog
tomorrow. And over the next couple weeks, we'll have daily posts to help
introduce you to some of our favorite new features on Picasa Web Albums
and inside Picasa 3."
http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2008/09/announcing-picasa-30-and-new-version-of.html
Picasa Web Albums: Introducing name tags
"The name tags feature in Picasa Web Albums helps you automatically
organize and share your photos based on who's in them."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teeGF-w5Cpw
Picasa 3 feature overview
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93773
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_us/
Picasa Web Albums
http://picasaweb.google.com/home