Program Picasso is a photo editing software download that lets you easily manage, organize, edit and share your digital photos. Picasso has a lot of features:
Searching for photos in program Picasso
Program Picasso has a search bar that's always visible when viewing the digital photo library. Searches are live because displayed items are filtered as you type.
When you type a word into the search bar in program Picasso, an image will be displayed if that word is all or part of a keyword, or part of the file name. If the searched word is part of a folder name, all images in that folder are also displayed (but not necessarily images in subfolders, unless the word also exists in a keyword or filename.)
Program Picasso also supports boolean operators for searching in much the same way as Google's web search. All search terms are included by default (as with the operator "AND"), and keywords may be omitted by using the hyphen (as in the boolean operator "NOT"). For example, the search "family -friends" will cause program Picasso to display all images with the keyword family, but which do not include the keyword friends.
Photo keywords in program Picasso
Program Picasso uses ini files to keep track of keywords for each image. In addition to this, Program Picasso attaches IPTC keyword data to JPEG files, but not to any other file format. Keywords attached to JPEG files in program Picasso can be read by other image library software like Adobe (Photoshop, Album and Bridge), digiKam and iPhoto.
According to the Picasso Readme, Picasa can parse XMP data. However, it cannot search local files for existing XMP keywords.
Photo organization and editing in program Picasso
For organizing photos, program Picasso has file importing and tracking features, as well as tags and collections for further sorting. Picasso also offers several basic photo editing functions, including color enhancement, red eye reduction and cropping. Other features include slide shows, printing and image timelines. Images can also be prepared for external use, such as for e-mailing or printing, by reducing file size and setting up page layouts. There is also integration with online photo printing service
Viewing photos in program Picasso
Picasso, also known as Picasa, has no separate view window. There is only an "edit view" with a viewing area. Fullscreen view is available in slideshow mode, by holding down the ctrl+alt keys while in "edit view", or by pressing the Alt Gr key.
Backing up photos in program Picasso
Program Picasso does not overwrite photos when changes are made. Instead, it lists all the changes made and puts the list in a separate file. Whenever the image is opened in program Picasso it will check the list and apply the changes that the list tells it to. If you open the photo in any other program, though, the image will not have the changes applied to it. To see the changes when using the photo in other programs you must 'export' the photo. In Picasa 2, a new feature has been added to allow users to save changes made to the pictures in Picasa by overwriting the actual picture file. However, a backup version of the original picture is made and saved in a hidden folder named "Originals", which is located within the same folder as the original picture.
