Posted by Thomas the bear on behalf of the Picasa teamIt has been speculated that Google has a history of leg-pulling around this time of year. In the spirit of silliness, we wanted to share a warm and fuzzy true story about how a bear named Thomas mad…
Posted by Miriam Schneider, Associate Product Marketing ManagerIn what could be considered the next evolution of scrapbooking, photo books are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to creatively glorify your pictures. One of our main goals …
Posted by Mark Muse, Consumer Operations Strategist Has it been a while since you backed up your photos? Wait, have you ever backed up your photos? Your computer will fail sooner or later — that’s just how it goes. What matters are the steps that yo…
Posted by Todd Bogdan, Software EngineerIf you spend a lot of time in Picasa, here’s a keyboard shortcut that may come in handy: When you’re in Library View, move your mouse cursor over any picture thumbnail, hold down the ‘ctrl’ key, and then press ‘a…
Posted by Mark Muse, Consumer Operations StrategistWe do our best to continually patch bugs in Picasa and keep our Help Center comprehensive and up-to-date, but nobody’s perfect. We know that folks are bound to come across bugs, stumbling blocks, or tr…
Posted by Anthony Procissi, Software QA EngineerIf you have a higher-end digital camera, you’ve probably seen an option to capture images in RAW format instead of the more-familiar JPG. You might also have noticed that the release notes for recent Pi…
Posted by Mike Horowitz, Product ManagerIt’s January, and that means, in addition to arguments about who the real football champion is, it’s time for the Consumer Electronics Show (or CES, as it’s commonly referred to). CES showcases the latest in cons…
Posted by Karen Groenink, User Experience DesignerIf you’ve ever picked up an iPhone, you know that it’s great for showing off digital photos. iPhones have a high-resolution screen that’s big, bright, and crisp, and a first-class web browser that supp…
Posted by Chris Mysen, Software EngineerOne of the best things about digital photography is that it’s cheap and easy to learn from your mistakes. With a high-capacity memory card, you can shoot photos for days on end, and big LCD screens make it easy t…
Posted by Derek Collison, Technical DirectorThere are plenty of good reasons to share your photos online — after all, half the fun in taking pictures comes from sharing them with friends and family.But here’s another benefit that hits much closer to h…
Posted by Mark Geller, Product ManagerA few months back, we made it easy for almost anyone to partner with Picasa Web Albums by launching a free and open API that allows other services to connect to ours.For Picasa Web Albums users, this means you can …
Posted by Pam Benjatanaporn, Program ManagerPhotography has always helped people see more of the world we live in, and exploring the photos in our ‘Community Search’ gets more interesting every time we add support for a new language. Today, we’re happy…
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerEarlier today, our Mac team released version 1.1 of the Picasa Web Albums Uploaders. For Mac users, these tools provide the fastest, easiest way to share photos on Picasa Web Albums. Both an iPhoto plugin …
Posted by Mike Herf, Picasa Engineering ManagerContinuing Monday’s discussion of Picasa’s less-visible features, I thought I’d start by talking about Backup. This shouldn’t be considered a minor detail, really — keeping a backup archive is downright c…
Posted by Mike Herf, Picasa Engineering ManagerEvery piece of software has a couple of features that its designers think are pretty important. You can usually guess what those are simply by examining the user interface — the biggest, shiniest, and mos…