Google releases photo organizing software

[evanovitch]

Google releases photo organizing software

www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-19 09:26:30

BEIJING, Jan. 19 -- The US Internet search-engine company Google Inc. has released free software for organizing and finding the hundreds or thousands of digital photos often stored on a computer's hard drive.

Using technology developed by Picasa Inc., which Google bought last year, the new software will try to make keeping a photo collection and editing pictures simple even for beginners.

Rather than requiring users to import individual photos from their drives, the Picasa software automatically detects them as they are added — whether sent via e-mail or transferred from a digital camera.

The software tries to do away with complexities such as file names and folders. Photos are dumped into one bucket, sorted by date, but the software can quickly pull photos from date ranges or events as requested. In the new version, users will be able to mark the best pictures with a gold star and search only for those.

In addition, the new software will have better tools for restoring colour and removing red eyes.

Captions are automatically attached to the photo file so that they go with the photo to Web sites and CDs.

[Hush Darlin]

Re: Google releases photo organizing software

sounds good
I dould do with that

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Google releases photo organizing software

I downloaded it but have not installed it yet.
Sounds like something I need.

[COOLCAT]

Re: Google releases photo organizing software

Lawdda massie google fass in mi beez nezz, mi just download di ting and it scan and find every blasted
picture pon mi harddrive even so picture mi a look for from last year di blasted ting find dem.

Not even in computer yu cyaa hide any thing di bugga dem search blasted part di harddrive to raw tid.

[j-kid]

Re: Google releases photo organizing software

Originally posted by COOLCAT:
[qb] Lawdda massie google fass in mi beez nezz, mi just download di ting and it scan and find every blasted
picture pon mi harddrive even so picture mi a look for from last year di blasted ting find dem.

Not even in computer yu cyaa hide any thing di bugga dem search blasted part di harddrive to raw tid. [/qb]

Cool, mi did tell yuh fi stop downloading dem X-rated pictures! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Nanook]

Re: Google releases photo organizing software

I've just spent DAYS organizing my photos, and re sizing hundreds of them to save space, I use my pictures for my screensaver and I have well over a thousand photos sittin on my hard drive. The other re-organizing I'm doing is being careful not to put potential ones that I may want to print 8X10's in the resize format.

Is this Google thing a safe download? Is it Beta? It sounds awesome because it would sure save a lot of work because I still have a hard time finding some photos even if I try hard to organize by dates/events and such.

[keithacole]

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i used adobe's photoshop album.. it was a good start you could organize photos by people, place, event, date, everything... you could import all the photos at once, but then you gotta add the attributes to each photo.. i spent about 4 hours the night i had it to organize all my pictures. and then i saw that the new Microsoft Office has photo organizing softeware. i switched to that it was better because it could rename all the pics at once for you.. like christmas04-1.jpg christmas04-2.jpg and so on.

but all in all i only used those programs 1 to get them sorted as a whole. and then i created folders and subfolders and just tossed the pics into the appropriate folder.

i couldnt use those programs again becasue when you move a picture those programs dont know where you put it and its a hassle to reassociate the pics to the program.

know what i mean?.