Picasa 3.8 adds Face Movie, Picnik editing
The photo editing and management application for the “I can’t stand iPhoto” crowd. Although this is just a point update, there is a rather beefy new feature plus some needed tweaks under the hood — the price is super right and the functionality increasingly compelling. Picasa 3.8 (release notes) comes to market with the following changes:
• Face Movie: Quickly create a slideshow featuring a specific person complete with transitions, music and captions
• Batch Upload: Improved upload feature so that you can upload to Picasa Web Albums, and share with your Google contact groups at the same time, as well as remove albums, change upload size, visibility or the sync state of photos already online
• Edit in Picnik: An easy and powerful photo-editor that allows you to edit photos easily, share them and save them back to Picasa Web Albums, right in your browser.
• Properties panel: Picasa now supports XMP along with EXIF data. Image data is now available in the Properties panel along with places and tags
Get your very own copy of Picasa 3.8 here (23.9MB).
Personally, I’m still using iPhoto for management, but Picasa Web Albums is my online publishing solution of choice.
How are you doin’ it?
I can’t stand iPhoto!
Picasa does need to improve it’s folder management. I really want to be able to select multiple items across folders and drag and drop into another folder, all from the main window.
Picasa can take forever to recognise new items sometimes.
Apart from some more sophisticated editing tools, I can’t think of any reason to prefer iPhoto, although I’m sure there must be some.
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