DIGITAL PICASSO
What do you call the era when kodak, one of the biggest names in the world of photography, stopped making their analog-film-related products? One might call it the dark era of photography. Others might say it’s the era of digital photography. While the second label is more like it, I nevertheless prefer to call it the era of the amateur photographers. Why? These days, creating photos using a digital camera is as easy as blinking your eyes. And with the endlessly growing capacity of memory cards that are soaring to bigger gigabytes. It’s sooo easy to fill up your hard disk with thousands of photos in no time. “Shoot now, think later.” That’s the spirit. Problem is, not everybody is blessed with an eye for good pictures. Of the hundreds of photos that we take at any given time, maybe only less than half can be classified as good. More efforts are required; editing your pictures to look better. But managing thousands of pics on your hard disk is harder than going over just one or two pictures book. So we definitely need help here. We need something that can do both; editing pictures fast and easily and making the huge photo collection manageable. Oh, and one more thing, it has to be free.
Being Digital Picasso
Well, stop fretting! Help is here. The nice people at Google offer you picasa, the free, easy, and powerfull picture manager and editor. Judging from the name, we can assume that Picasa is capable of making you a modern age Picasso-digitally. Interested? Picasa is about 3,2 MB.
- Organizing
Basically this job is done automatically. All you have to do is put your pictures there. But you can get more power using the menu tools -> Folder Manager. - Editing
Use the features “I’m feeling lucky” to get all the editing features working automatically. - Saving all your work to CD effortlessly
Just click the Gift CD button. - Picuter Collage.
This is my favorite features. Use this to make a picture consisting of a collection of other pictures. It’s in the menu Create -> Picture Collage. - Sharing.
The are a few options to share picture. You can send your pictures via email, instant messenger, or Blog. All can be done easily.
In general, unless you are a professional artist, Picasa is more than enough to cover all your imaging need’s. It’s free and powerful, so what are you waiting for? Go get it.










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