Picasa Photo Organizer - a free software download from Google.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you know.

You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

Picasa instantly locates and organises all the pictures on your computer. Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favourites into visual standouts at a glance. Have photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any of your Pi

Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures � you can email, print at home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello, and even put pictures on your own blog.

Picasa 2 will maintain any albums and any edits that you made to your photos while using older versions of Picasa.

Picasa is now part of Google.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added name tags in the Picasa software.
· Improved geotagging: You can now geotag in Picasa using Google Maps in the 'Places' tab.
Improved keyword tagging:
· New 'Tags' tab for easier tag management.
· New Quick Tag buttons for easy access to commonly used tags.
· Import changes
· Added the ability to upload and share while importing.
· Added the ability to add stars and upload only starred images during the import process.
· Added the ability to modify the date and time on pictures. 'Tools > Adjust date and time.'
· The Sharpen slider is now more responsive.
· Improved reliability for CD burning

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Attempts to change the default search engine for web browsers installed on the system