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Today, we will talk about Picasa and Picasa Web Albums.
Well, Google is preparing to update his online service and has recently published the beta version of Picasa 3.



Small recall for those who do not know much Picasa :

Picasa is a free software, proposed by Google, which allow you to manage, edit and share your photos digital , with Picasa Web Albums (a free service hosting online photo), easily.
It can automatically locate all your photos and sort them into visual folders organized by name, size, or date. Of course, you can choose to arrange your albums manually, rename your pictures and moved them by simple "drag and drop ".
You have also the possibility to make retouches and add effects on your photos via many tools such as crop, remove red eye, sharpness, saturation, black and white, sepia, etc.
For more about Picasa, go here and there.



The new version of Picasa offers many new features, notably Picasa Web Albums with the integration of the function of automatic face recognition, Name tags. By associating the name of a person with a photo of a face, Picasa is able to identify automatically in all your albums, photographs where there is a similar face, to gather them and we can make a slide show on this person.

Look, here is a video which shows what we can do with Name tags :



On the menu of the other news features:
- a new interface
- an automatic synchronization of Picasa with Picasa Web Albums
- a slide show creator in the form of video : from your photos you can create videos and export them for on You Tube for example
- a new tool for local retouching to correct the imperfections of a face
- improvement of Collage : possibility to create photo collage and print it
- etc.



For more information, it is here and also by there.
You can also watch this video :



Well, for the moment this version of Picasa is only available for Windows .
To download and test this new version of Picasa, you can click on here, and do not hesitate to share with us your first impressions about this beta.