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`Announcing Picasa 3.5, now with name tags, better
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`Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:12 PM
`Posted by Todd Bogdan, Software Engineer
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`Today, we are pleased to announce Picasa 3.5, a new version of our free photo editing
`software for Mac or PC. Picasa 3.5 has name tags and uses the same technology that powers
`name tags on Picasa Web Albums. With name tags, you can organize your photos based on
`what matters most: the people in them.
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`When you first launch Picasa 3.5, it will start scanning the photos in your computer's collection
`to create groups of similar faces. It puts all these groups into the "Unnamed People" album,
`where you can easily add a name tag to a set of faces by clicking "Add a name" and typing the
`person's name. Make sure you're signed into your Google account so names you type will
`auto-complete with your Google contacts.
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`After you add a name tag, all pictures that Picasa has identified as that person are
`automatically added to a new album named after them. As Picasa scans more faces, it will
`suggest pictures that it thinks match faces already in your people albums. These suggestions
`are shown with an orange question mark next to the person's album.
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`In addition to uploading and sharing your newly tagged photos to Picasa Web Albums, you can
`use the name tags you've added and your new people albums to do creative things with your
`photos. For example, you can find all of the photos with the same two people in them, create
`customizable face collages, time-lapse movies, and more.
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`Since name tags now work on both Picasa and Picasa Web Albums, you can share name tags
`between the two. If you've added name tags in Picasa Web Albums, go to Tools > "Download
`Name Tags from Picasa Web Albums" in Picasa to import all the names you've added online
`(and save yourself a lot of time). It works the other way as well: if you're using name tags in
`Picasa Web Albums, any name tags you add in Picasa are automatically uploaded to Picasa
`Web Albums when you upload tagged photos, but you can keep all name tag info on your
`computer if you choose.
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`Picasa 3.5 also has integrated Google Maps to make geotagging even easier. Now you can
`add location info to photos -- one photo at a time or several photos at once. Simply select
`pictures, click the Places panel, search or surf to a place, and drop a pin in the right place on
`the map. Once you've added geo tags, you can select a group of photos and see where they
`were all taken.
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`Nothing has changed in the way the geo information is applied to your photos -- it will still write
`exact location data to your photo file, but now you don't need to install and open Google Earth
`to add geo tags (although you can still geotag with Google Earth if you want). And of course,
`any location data you add in Picasa will automatically sync to Picasa Web Albums when you
`upload.
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`We've also given our import process a major make-over. Designed based on feedback from
`Picasa users, you can now upload photos right to Picasa Web Albums during the import
`process from your camera or memory card. Since you don't always want to share or upload
`every photo that you import, you can choose to upload or share only the starred photos, while
`the rest are imported to your hard drive.
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`Plus, we've added an entirely new 'Tags' panel in Picasa 3.5. You can use the 'Quick Tag'
`functionality to access your most commonly used tags, or use tag counts to see the number of
`photos to which a tag has been applied.
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`Finally, we launched Picasa for Mac as a beta Labs product 9 months ago. Now that Picasa
`for Mac has almost all the same features as the PC version, we've decided it's time to remove
`the beta label. Remember that Picasa for Mac is designed to "play nice" with iPhoto -- Picasa
`takes a special read-only approach to editing photos stored in the iPhoto library, duplicating
`files as needed, so your iPhoto library isn't ever affected when you use Picasa.
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`Here's a short video overview of what's new in Picasa 3.5.
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`As always, we'd love to hear what you think about Picasa. For now, Picasa 3.5 is available in
`English only, but we plan to roll it out internationally soon. Download Picasa today and start
`tagging!
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