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…and the program now lets you optionally upload photos directly to Picasa Web Albums as you import them from your camera or memory card. Once you’ve named someone, you can do stuff like make a celebratory photo collage of a friend or relative with just a few clicks.Īnother significant new feature: Picasa 3.5′ now has built-in Google Maps, allowing you to manually geotag the locations where you took pictures (previously, you had to do this in Google Earth). You can also sync Name Tags between Picasa and Picasa Web Albums. Like Picasa Web Albums, Picasa lets you sync the Name Tags with your Google Contacts, making it easier to enter a person’s name (start typing it, and possible matches pop up).
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It’s also quicker than Picasa Web Albums’ similar feature, since the software is zippier than the browser-based version, and the pictures of people are larger and easier to browse. That makes it faster to start naming people than iPhoto’s method (you have to pull up photos one at a time and choose the Names feature before the app shows you possible matches). The program not only scans all your photos and attempts to identify folks by their facial features–and does quite a good job–but organizes photos into a browsable list of clusters of “Unnamed People” even before you’ve started identifying them by name. But Picasa scores points for its nicely streamlined implementation of the feature. It’s not a huge whoop considering that the Web-based Picasa Web Albums photo-sharing service added it more than a year ago it’s also available in Apple’s iPhoto ’09 and elsewhere.
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The big new feature is face recognition, which Picasa calls Name Tags. Google let me get my hands on it a bit early Picasa fans should like it, and it gives those of us who haven’t checked out the app in a while new reason to revisit it. But it’s announcing Picasa 3.5 today, which should be available for Windows and OS X by the time you read this or soon thereafter.
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I can never quite tell if Google considers its free Picasa image organizer/editor to be a Major Google Product–it doesn’t update it all that often, or promote it as energetically as it might.