December 17th, 2011· Fixed various crashes.
· Fixed name tags and contacts issues
December 9th, 2011· Added ability to upload to Google+: share with circles, post pictures to your stream, and upload images at original size.
· Social Tagging: name tag people in your Google+ circles and notify them via G+.
New photo editing effects, including:
· Infrared
· Lomo-ish
· Holga-ish
· HDR-ish
· Cinemascope
· Orton-ish
· Sixties
· Invert Colors
· Heat Map
· Nightvision
· Cross Process
· Posterize
· Duo-Tone
· Boost
· Soften
· Vignette/Matte
· Pixelate/Focal Pixelate
· Focal Zoom
· Pencil Sketch
· Neon
· Comic Book
· Border
· Rounded Edges
· Drop Shadow
· Museum Matte
· Polaroid
· Side by side editing: compare two pictures side-by-side, or compare different edits on the same picture.
· Updated RAW support for pictures from newer cameras.
· Support for WebP files.
· On the Tools > Experimental menu, we've added support for migrating your database to another local drive.
· Improvements to Face Movie maker: number of photos included, chronological ordering.
· Sync now uploads unshared albums privately.
· Improved restoring of virtual albums when you uninstall and reinstall, or move to a new computer. Album data is written to the picasa.ini file now, along with all of your other edits.
· OAuth support: use 2-factor accounts without getting an application-specific password.
April 21st, 2011· Fixed importing from scanners.
· Fixed Backup and Restore creating duplicate .ini files.
April 21st, 2011· Fixed facial recognition crash.
March 16th, 2011· Fixed various camera importing issues in Windows 7.
· Picasa Photo Viewer process now works correctly with files opened on a network drive.
· Fixed an issue with ‘My Contacts’ groups.
· Made improvements to decrease overall memory usage.
December 11th, 2010· Fixed the 'Picasa is moving My Contacts to Other Contacts' issue.
· Updated various translations.
November 17th, 2010· Fixed various translation issues.
· Face Movies now correctly display captions.
September 30th, 2010· Fixed "Manage Online Contacts" 403 errors.
· Fixed corrupt metadata bug.
· Fixed various Face Movie crashes.
· NEF files appear again for mass storage devices on Windows 7.
September 16th, 2010· Fixed problems upgrading facetags from 3.6 and several other issues with cropped/rotated files.
· Fixed importing from scanners issue in Windows 7.
· Fixed screensaver issues with cropped pictures and captions not displaying.
· Fixed broken EXIF rotation and zoom in Photo Viewer.
· Create a Face Movie from a selection of photos in the tray (instead of using the entire Person Album).
· Original file jpeg quality preserved when saving from Picnik.
· Color Management is now turned off by default.
· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes.
August 18th, 2010· Added Face Movie to create face-aligned movies for named contacts.
· Added Batch Upload (via Tools > Batch Upload) to allow you to take bulk actions on your photos: upload, change options, and remove online photos.
· Added Picnik online photo-editing to the Basic Fixes tab.
· Added Color Management to support color profiles.
· Added the Properties panel to view EXIF data and improve support for XMP metadata.
· Added support for uploading photo order to Picasa Web for manually re-ordered photos.
· Added an option to upload people album thumbnails to Google Contacts.
July 19th, 2010· Fix to various crashes during initial scan/startup as a result of Quicktime.
· For Windows 7, fix for a question mark icon that displays in the Library list for photo folders with 1,000 or more counts.
May 6th, 2010· Drag and drop in Collage Maker for Mosaic, Frame Mosaic, and Grid.
April 14th, 2010· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes.
· Fixed translation errors.
Several backup fixes including:
· Disk-to-disk backup
· Filtering previously backed up folders
· Selecting the correct backup set in list
March 24th, 2010· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes.
· Fixed translation errors.
February 25th, 2010· Now available in 38 languages.
February 25th, 2010· Made a stability fix to Timeline.
· Fixed an issue where Picasa would only show the face thumbnail when a new album is created from a 'People' album.
· Fixed several issues in the import process.
· Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping into another folder didn't actually move the photo.
February 25th, 2010Added support for collaborative albums in Picasa:
· The ability to make your own albums collaborative and invite collaborators.
· The ability to upload to a friend's album.
· Added better name tag recommendations.
· Added the ability (in the Folder Manager) to remove folders from being scanned for faces.
· Add the ability to create (and save) custom crop sizes.
· Added an option in Settings to preserve the original JPG compression value when uploading to Picasa Web Albums
· Imports can now be saved automatically by date taken, today's date, or a custom folder name. If date taken is selected, photos will be saved in separate folders by date.
September 23rd, 2009· 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
September 15th, 2006· New RAW features
· Larger thumbnails
· Picasa now works with Google Earth
· Screensaver
· Improved import
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