Digital Click : Picasa

Organizing every day growing digital photographs was a grueling task for me for years. I been trying various kinds of archiving and viewing softwares but nothing ever came close to what I wanted as Picasa did.

Picasa is a freeware. Its interface and feature sets are simply the best what one wants in the process of archiving and viewing.Needless to say that quality and innovative software is powered by Google.

Here is the feature list of picasa :

Picasa's Album sorting just goes in a jiffy. It gives a feel of light and swift. Well for archiving 3000+snaps it made an internal db of some 11MB which is resonable.In every folder it creates Picasa.ini file. One can set options per folder basis: scan the folder or not, or to watch for changes.

Picasa's Slideshow gives you a 3D feel during navigation. It sorts itself on the basis of time stamp. It has an option of background music during slideshow(mp3 support).Navigation is really very intutive. Advanced options help u edit the timeline.

Picasa's Image editor does resizing, cropping, redeye reduction,rotate,color and contrast enhancer.

Picasa also gives options like creating a web-albums(html) or batchprocessing at the click of a button. Guess nothing can be more intutive than this for sure.

Well this is not a complete or partial review of picasa. Try this out its worth a look and sooner or later it becomes indispensable.

TIP : When you want to organize ur digital photographs the best way to name your folders is YYYYMMDD_CAPTION. I prefer this over other ways of categorizing as vacations, family etc as this is based on timestamp.