Picasa rocks because it is an offline photo album, photo editor, and online photo sharing service. The usability is amazing.
The good:
There’s seamless integration from the time you download your pics from your SD card, fast and intuitive sorting into albums, one-touch (or two if you’re fussy) editing where it also saves your original in an embedded folder within your folder, and a speedy and easy uploading within the same program with SSI (single sign in).
I love that you can make collages with one click, resize your pictures, and automate batch edits. There’s an option to keep your photos private or public, both of which you can embed in a blog or email. You can also link to your friends who have Picasa Web.
While you can do the basic and it is quite easily done, arrange photos, name them, and share them with your friends, there is much lacking in comparison to other photo sharing services out there.
The bad:
What it is lacking is a way to see which friends you emailed have viewed your pictures, a photo view that offers you a url to click right away to copy and paste into your blog, there are no communities right now, and no html or Flash widgets to add to your site.
Still, it is one of the best photo sharing services out there and best of all, it’s free. Get it today at http://picasa.google.com.
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