{"id":1375,"date":"2008-09-08T02:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2008-09-08T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T03:00:40","slug":"picasa3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/picasa3\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasa3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has released a 3rd rev. of Picasa<\/a>. Picasa is both a desktop application (windows only) and an online photo sharing site similar to Flickr.<\/p>\n

See a YouTube video<\/a> describing the new offering.<\/p>\n

The potential of photography as a generative learning activity has always appealed to me. I am mostly a Macintosh user, but I realize that not everyone shares my choice in equipment so I try to keep up with options for the Windows OS. You can use the online photo sharing site whatever your choice in operating system. What I have searched for is a low cost alternative for collecting, organizing, and annotating images similar to iPhoto. Picasa is such an application. Actually, iPhoto is low cost, Picasa is free<\/p>\n

I found the newest Picasa sluggish, but I am guessing my old hardware was at fault. The YouTube video linked above showed a much more responsive experience. The layout is very similar to iPhoto and I was able to duplicate what I saw in the video without difficulty.<\/p>\n

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There are some things in Picasa that are not available in iPhoto. The opportunity to organize a collection of images as a collage offers a nice way to present images associated with a theme. Organizing the images within the collage is what caused me the most difficulty with response speed, but the product is of high quality. The collage appearing below is approximately 50% of the size of the original.<\/p>\n

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Picasa the app and Picasa the photo sharing site do work together and it is easy to upload an album. I have attempted to match a set of photographs and one Flip video to allow comparison. I realized after completing the process that it is impossible to unconfound the application from the social site, but a more straight forward comparison will have to wait.<\/p>\n

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Google has released a 3rd rev. of Picasa. Picasa is both a desktop application (windows only) and an online photo sharing site similar to Flickr. See a YouTube video describing the new offering. The potential of photography as a generative learning activity has always appealed to me. I am mostly a Macintosh user, but I … Continue reading Picasa3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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