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On Wednesday, Google pushed its digital photo application Picasa out of beta, with many new updates. The Picasa Build 32.91 updates include:
- Sharing photos online though Picasa web albums
- Choose how folders are displayed in Picasa, though a nested folder view, or date view.
- Importing photos into an existing folder.
- Choose between four presentation views for screensavers.
- Tell Picasa where you shot each photo, and geotagging ads some nice integration with Google Earth. KMZ files can be exported and shared with others.
- Thumbnails appear larger and clearer.
- RAW formats and more camera models are supported.
- Caption editing has been updated.
- Starred photos get organized into a special album.
- Buttons can be configured to the user's specifications.
I love Picasa, and use it daily to organize, view and store my digital photos. Over the past few months I have been experimenting with the Picasa Web feature, and I have to say, it's a great tool to use to send digital pictures to family and friends for viewing anywhere, and display them in a nice online gallery.
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Subscribe to commentsa1l3nSep 14th 2006 2:03PM
I wonder how long it will take Google to add Web Albums to Picasa for Linux?
Los DiablosSep 14th 2006 2:33PM
I use Picasa every day, but the 250MB limit on the web albums is killing me.
Please just switch to an ad-based free storage system. Yahoo is unlimited free storage, as does webshots, etc., etc. Isn't this supposed to be GOOGLE? Why so chincy with the storage space? Sucks.
Chris GilmerSep 14th 2006 2:44PM
I totally agree! Users need more space! PicasaWeb is still in a test phase, so i guess they still could be playing with the size thing... or maybe their extra storage data centers are not complete yet?
They do have the option to purchase more space:
For $25.00 per year, users can get a subscription to an additional 6GB of storage %u2013 room to post and share approximately 25,000 photos.
fincanSep 14th 2006 2:55PM
I tried to download standart picasa after reading this, and it is version 28.x. I re-downloaded picasa-beta (web albums) but it is still 32.71 for me, and still beta. Any ideas?
StevenSep 14th 2006 4:34PM
Why is there no Picasa for Macintosh? I HATE iPHOTO!
PeterSep 14th 2006 6:01PM
Pretty sure you have to go to http://picasaweb.google.com/home and click on the bottom download link for the newest releases - might want to update the link in the article
WyattERPSep 14th 2006 6:16PM
Yeah, something is wrong here. I don't see any non-beta format. I ended up downloading and installing Picasa2 again (by accident)...and the latest version with web albums is still BETA.
????????????????
John DaharshSep 15th 2006 12:36AM
I did exactly the same thing as fincan - I can't find a non-beta version of picasaweb... and it took me a while to find a link to the picasaweb download. Had a small heart-attack.
I love Picasa though. Hopefully I can find this non-beta version of Picasaweb.
Norman SherfieldSep 15th 2006 12:58AM
I also tried to download the non beta version and ended up with the re-downloaded picasa-beta (web albums) but it is still 32.71 for me, and still beta. and worst of all my older version was reading my RAW files and now with this version it is not reading them. I am bummed. Anyone know where to get the non-beta version and I hope it will work with my Olympus RAW files.
Chris GilmerSep 15th 2006 9:07AM
PicasaWeb is still in beta, its just the regular Picasa that moved out of beta.
http://readme.picasa.com/public/releasenotes.html
absurdtheorySep 16th 2006 7:45AM
Direct Link to latest
http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa2-setup-3294.exe
absurdtheorySep 16th 2006 8:24AM
I'm not sure but i think picasaweb and picasa will be one in the same,this update allows you to post to picasaweb,so... That and i couldn't see Google releasing two different versions of Picasa,they need
to get rid of Hello.
LechOct 11th 2006 9:32AM
Unfortunately, storage upgrade is available for U.S. users only. That's why only some of you can see this option.