Google releases Picasa 3.5, an updated version of its free photo editing software. With Picasa you can easily edit as well as organize your images, and sync and you can also share them with Picasa Web Albums and Google's online photo-sharing site.
The most noteworthy toting up in this release is an improved version of Picasa's people-tagging feature; previously it is only available in Picasa Web Albums. Further improvements include Google Maps integration for faster as well as easier geotagging, a smarter keyword-tagging interface, and added importing options.
When you first launch Picasa 3.5, it scans each and every image on your computer and it also groups similar faces. You can then go all the way through and add name tags one at a time or in bulk. If you previously use name tags in your Picasa Web Albums, you can log into your Google account and you can also download that information to the Picasa application (Tools-> Download Name Tags from Picasa Web Albums).
Signing in also means you can use your Google contacts list while tagging people. Picasa will automatically generate an album for each person you tag.
Geotagging is very much easier in 3.5. In the Places panel, a Google map displays the locations of your geotagged photos. To affix location information to photos, you can seek directly in the panel and add a pin, or drag and drop an image or images on the map from your library.
Picasa's import features have also been very much improved. At present it is possible to upload images directly to Picasa Web Albums from your camera, iPhone, or else memory card. Before importing you can pick which images to include or exclude. For instance, you could go for to upload all of the images to your hard drive, but only starred images to the Web.
This update is meant for both Mac as well as PCs, and is the first Mac version of Picasa to drop the beta label.
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