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Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager In the few weeks that have passed since we announced the first ever Picasa Web Albums powered contest, the Democracy Photo Challenge, nearly 3,000 photos from 131 countries were submitted.A jury ha…

Posted by Jonathan Sposato, Product Management Today, we released the latest version of Picasa with lots of cool new features but there’s one item that we’re particularly excited about. Face movies create a movie based around one person both figur…

Posted by Christina Lin, Picasa Forum GuideLast fall, as northern hemisphere-dwellers were enjoying the picturesque crisp days of autumn, we had an idea to host an Autumn photo challenge to uncover the hidden talents of the Picasa community. We were ex…

Posted by Jason Holt, Software Engineer for Street ViewEver marveled at the way many retail sites create 360 views of products? Now you can bring your own photo albums to life by clicking and dragging left and right on a photo in full screen mode. This…

Posted by Thomas Kang and Steve Leroux, Software Engineers for Picasa Web and Picnik A few months back we welcomed Picnik, the powerful online photo editor, into the Google family and today we’re happy to share the first of more exciting things to co…

Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing ManagerWhat does democracy mean to you? This is a personal question whose answer can be expressed in many ways–with lines of prose, a video documentary, or a even single photo.To inspire people around the…

Posted by K. Michael Alexander, Picnik UI DesignerThe Picnik team recently launched a set of soccer-themed photo editing effects that make it easy and fun to show the world which team you’re cheering for in South Africa.With the new effects, you can …

Posted by Jon Emerson, Software EngineerPhotos can be displayed in all sorts of places; on a wall, on your desk or in a Picasa Web Album. We recently announced yet another place — the Google homepage, where you can use your favorite photos or images …

Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing ManagerSix months ago we began offering a free 4GB SDHC Eye-Fi card (a $95 value) to anyone who bought 200 GB of Google paid storage for $50, which is shared between Picasa Web Albums, Gmail, and Google Docs. An…

Posted by Roger Trias i Sanz, Panoramio Software EngineerThe Panoramio team is happy to announce the recent launch of the Panoramio Widget API, an easy way to publish photos of your favorite places on any site or blog you own. Using a Panoramio widget,…

Posted by Ping Chen, Software EngineerLike many other things in life, photos are best when shared. I share the majority of my photos on Picasa Web Albums, but I also sometimes tweet about specific photos or share them on my blog. Today, we’re making it…

Posted by Evan Tsang and Tammy McLeod, Software EngineersWe want Picasa Web Albums to be a place you can share and store all your digital photos, regardless of how many you have. We recently made extra storage really affordable, but until now, Picasa W…

Posted by C. Amera, LifeSize EngineerIn a world where everything seems to be getting smaller and smaller, we still believe that bigger is sometimes better. On the photos team, we know this is definitely true. That’s why we’re happy to announce LifeSize…

Posted by David Catmull, Software EngineerWe launched Picasa for Mac in Google Labs just over a year ago, and it’s grown up fast. With the 3.5 launch, Picasa for Mac matched the features of Picasa for PC, and today we’re excited to announce the next mi…

Posted by Tara Morrison, Software Test EngineerWe’re happy to announce that Picasa 3.6 for Windows is now available in 38 languages, so people around the world can add name tags to their photos, create collaborative albums, and geotag their photos usin…