Earlier this month, Google released a major upgrade of its free photo editing software, Picasa. For those not familiar with Picasa, it offers all the tools necessary to organize and edit your pictures. Picasa integrates with a variety of photo printing services, and you can upload pictures to Picasa web albums to share pictures with others.
New features in version 3 include a retouch tool to remove blemishes and camera lens dust, a movie editor, screen capture, and a text tool to add watermarks and text to your photos. Improved features include new collage settings, improved sharing and Picasa web album integration, automatic red-eye correction, and improved tagging. A complete list of new and enhanced features is available here.
Picasa runs on Windows XP and Vista. As a major new release, you have to go to picasa.google.com to download the new version, rather than upgrading from within Picasa, but all photos and albums will be transferred automatically.
