Picasa is a much simpler and user-friendly image editing software, which can be used for sharing, organizing and editing of digital pictures effectively. Once installed it search and finds all pictures on your hard disk and organizes them together. This software can not only organize picture formats but also video files.  The newer version Picasa 3.5 released by Google is even better and is added with many new exciting features.

The previous versions of Picasa have acted separately from the Windows file tree, but the newer version goes hand-in-hand with Windows file tree.  Here one section of the library shows how the photos scanned by Picasa are organized throughout the hard disk. This makes organizing of pictures more efficiently and effectively. The new Picasa also has name tags feature which is same as that used in Picasa Web Albums.

Name tags helps in organizing picture based on the people in it. Sounds interesting? In the new Picasa 3.5, the name-tagging feature helps in identifying similar faces, with which they can be sorted accordingly. Picasa identifies all similar faces and organize them all in the “Unnamed people” album. By tagging the picture in it we can even search for pictures which have two persons in common and so on. This feature added is really innovative, which makes it sorting and viewing of pictures in most efficient way.

The new version has got all the features included in the previous ones too. One can easily modify and change highlights, fill lights, color temperature, shadows and more. It has got multilevel undo feature which helps in undoing your changes effectively. Though Picasa does not offer the transferring of pictures to handheld devices as in Adobe Photoshop Album it still goes toe to toe with any other image editing software.

The Picasa 3.5 also has Geotags integrated with Google Maps. This feature makes adding of geotags to your pics even easier.  Pictures can be imported faster and in a single step from your memory card or camera. The editing information is stored in ini format which make editing reversible without having the need of saving multiple versions. Picasa is available for Windows, Mac and Linux Platforms.

In short Picasa 3.5 has got everything a normal user needs for working with personal digital pictures. It is the best choice of selection as it has got everything you need to do with digital pictures, and is absolutely free.