1. Picasa 2 William F. Egle INFO 652 - Assignment #4

2. Overview Created by Google Freeware Download at http://www.picasa.comhttp://www.picasa.com

3. Overview Organize Image files (and videos)  By folder  By year Shows thumbnails of images in:  My Document & My Pictures only  Whole Computer

5. Capabilities Organize Image files  Integrated text search Archive to File (Local or Network Disk) CD-R or DVD-R Resize Image  Create Thumbnails  Smaller File size Some Image Manipulation

8. Image Manipulation

11. Examples Using Crop and B&W Filter Using Crop and Graduated Tint Filter

12. Other Capabilities Create Slideshows of Images  On the computer’s screen  Create CD-R or DVD-R disks that will play in a DVD player Using “Hello” another freeware program from Google, share photos directly with other users of “Hello”

13. Other Capabilities Have images printed and sent to your home through Picasa  Snapfish  Walmart  Ritz Camera  Shutterfly  Kodak

14. Competing Products Adobe Photoshop CS  More capabilities  Direct Image Manipulation  Web tools  $649.99 Adobe Photoshop Elements 3  Very similar capabilities to Picasa 2  $69.99 (on sale, $30 off) Digital Image Pro 10  Very similar capabilites to Picasa 2  $29.99 (on sale, $40 off)

15. Additional Thoughts Integration with photo printers  Marketing tool  Development paid by photo printer outfits?  Google making money from fees charged to the phot printer outfits?