June 4th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
As you may have read on the Google Blog today, we just gave Picasa Web Albums a major tune-up — flipping through photos is now a whole lot faster.You can see for yourself by visiting any album and hitting the arrow keys as you flip through pictures. …
May 26th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Last year’s presidential campaign gave photographers — professionals and hobbyists alike — a fantastic opportunity to capture both the personalities and the process of politics in America. Between the cross-country whistlestop tours, the crowds floc…
May 8th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Louise Rigby, Associate Product Marketing Manager, iGoogleWe just launched the Google Photography Prize, a global competition for students to create new themes for iGoogle. The contest aims to find talented student photographers and will giv…
May 5th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerWhen the Eye-Fi card was first introduced over a year ago, it quickly won fans among the Picasa team — after all, here was an affordable piece of hardware that bestowed WiFi superpowers on almost any digi…
April 14th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Simon Han, Software EngineerPhotographs are natural conversation-starters. And with online photo albums, the conversation can start the moment somebody comments on one of your photos.That’s why we just launched instant comment notification o…
April 14th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Dustin Cu, Learning & Development StrategistLooking for helpful demos of Picasa? We’ve started the Picasa Community Channel on YouTube to showcase videos about Picasa and Picasa Web Albums created by users just like you. From basic overviews …
March 19th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Stanley Chen, Gmail engineerLinks to Picasa Web Albums and photos get emailed around all the time. Now, if you use Gmail and turn on Picasa previews from the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, you won’t even have to leave your inbox to preview y…
March 4th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerWhen we released our initial public beta of Picasa for Mac OS X at Macworld, we mentioned that early testers were likely to spot some rough edges on the beta. Since then, we’ve been (metaphorically) filing…
January 5th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Brian Axe, Product ManagerGiven that Picasa originally began as Windows PC software, you might be surprised at how many Macs you’ll find floating around our Santa Monica office (which is where Google’s photos-related work mostly takes place)….
December 16th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Pam Benjatanaporn, Program ManagerYou may have caught the news on the main Google blog; today we’re releasing Picasa 3.1 and the “name tags” feature to all 38 languages we currently serve.If you’ve been waiting for a localized version of Pica…
December 4th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Ping Hsin Chen, Software EngineerA few months ago, we released our “name tags” feature in US English, which helps you easily organize all your photos based on who’s in each of your pictures. By automatically clustering similar faces in your p…
October 29th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
posted by Mike Horowitz, Product ManagerToday’s a big day for us — we’re peeling the ‘beta’ label off of Picasa 3, and will shortly be rolling out an official ‘Picasa 3.0′ update to our US-English Picasa 2 users.Faster performance and increased stabil…
October 21st, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Fred Zhang, Software EngineerShooting video isn’t limited to videocameras, anymore — people are now capturing video content on everything from their mobile phones to their high-end SLRs. Thankfully, Picasa 3 can help you easily manage all th…
October 10th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerAttention Mac users: The Mac team at Google just released a new update of the Picasa Web Albums Uploader which now includes the ability to easily export movies from iPhoto ’08. This update also preserves geo…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Lei Zhang, Software EngineerWe’re proud to announce the public beta of Picasa 3.0 for Linux (just a few days past the end of summer :-)With version 3, Picasa adds improved Linux desktop integration. For instance, it now uses your preferred fi…