Picasa 3 Expert Reviews

One of the most impressive features of Picasa Web Albums has finally come to the desktop softwarethe ability to find all pictures containing a certain person's face. Adobe just added this to its $99 Photoshop Elements 8, but in Picasa 3 you get it for ...

Polished interface. Many new features and usability improvements. Support for RAW camera files. Syncs local edits with online images. Mac version available. Free

Atypical interface may confuse some users at first

With a slick new interface and cool new features and tools, Picasa remains a terrific, easy, and free way to edit and organize your images.

The new version of Picasa keeps what's good about the old and adds some killer new capabilities, like retouching and movie editing.

Polished interface. Geotagging in Web albums. New blemish removal tool. Improved red-eye removal. Support for RAW camera files. Syncs local edits with online images. Free.

Atypical interface may confuse some users at first.

With major improvements across the board, and especially in terms of web integration, the free Picasa 3 is now the best PC photography software available for most users - at any price.

TEST: Finally, Google has released Picasa for OSX also .

Very quick to use, easy to use, 1GB of free storage on the web, editing facilities adequate for most ;

still in beta with some small problems, face recognition is a little so-that-so , only integral to Google's own services and not to Flickr, Facebook etc ;

Recently, however, the beta version of Picasa 3 released for OSX, specifically for Intel - based Macs. Do not have an Intel processor, you can thus not use Picasa 3, at least not yet