Thing # 6

The 3rd place winner in the web 2.0 awards for photo and digital images was the application picasa. Picasa is one of the many tools that are available for free from the Google corporation. The reason that I want to highlight picasa is the fact that I personally feel it should hve won first.

Picasa for the desktop - as apart of this tools beauty you have the ability to install a desktop application/interface. This gives you the ability to manipulate and edit your images before you need to upload them. As such it gives some of the more common editing tools that a user needs. The down side to this is that they have omitted some highly important tools like resizing the image, instead opting to allow that once the picture has been uploaded. While this feature is, in theory, understandable it is an inconvenience for those that have a slow internet connection.

Picasa on the web - Once you have uploaded your pictures (this of course is entirely optional) you have the ability to edit the images more, create folders to manage your content and if you desire and when you are ready you can publish your content to the wider web. One of the most useful aspects of this application is the pre-created code for the more common forms of content publishing, supplying code that allows for your pictures to be posted to discussion boards, facebook, myspace and even blogging sites.

The greatest advantage of this application is that it cuts out the need to spend money on buying a separate imaging product. Without this need you as a photographer have more funds available to do what you love best. Take photographs. For those that wish to try it you can head to http://picasa.google.com/

Steve