You don't have to shell out for photo-editing software, or put up with the
limited functions offered by the Paint program that comes with Windows. Picasa
can transfer pictures from your digital camera, organise them on the hard disk
and perform basic editing.
It will scan your hard drive(s), index all your images and group them into
folders. Image support includes JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, TIF and RAW, and it
will also catalogue your movies (AVI, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV).
Picasa can display images in a folder as a slideshow, and images can be
imported directly from your digital camera. Version 2 adds the ability to
caption images, and share them via email or P2P networks.
Other new features include options to print your photos via third-party
companies (Ofoto, Walmart etc), and the ability to burn photos to CD and DVD.
As part of the growing Google empire it integrates directly with the
company's new, oddly-named
Hello photo sharing service.