Picasa is a Picnik

I'd like to be able to say all of our family photos are neatly and creatively displayed in a collection of scrapbooks, but they're not. I'd like to be able to say that they are conveniently organized in a photo album, but they're not. Some where in the top of at least one of our closets are several boxes. That's where are irreplaceable family pictures are.

Enter, Picasa. With just a simple click of the button, Picasa scours your hard drive for all your photos organizing them by folder. One of the coolest features of Picasa is the ability to tag photos. Instead of trying to remember where I had them developed and searching through boxes of photos for the the right sleeve of pictures, tags act as keywords giving you incredible access to your photos.

The most amazing (and scary) feature of Picasa is the name tag feature. Under the people panel, after Picasa has scanned all your pictures, it displays all the "unnamed" faces in all your pictures. From this group, you can add name tags to the faces. Picasa will then group all your pictures by the people in the photos.

You also can do a lot of editing in Picasa. Red eye, tone, and color are just a few of the editing features of Picasa. But, if Picasa doesn't have enough editing functions, you have the option to edit it Picnik. Below is a picture (inspired by our recent vacation to Disney) I grabbed off of Google images and cropped using Picnik.