Picasso...I mean Picasa!!!

Another Google favourite has emerged for me: Picasa. Picasa is a FREE tool from Google for managing your photos and doing simple edits like the one shown on the leftt. (see the origial below) In this particular case I was able to tune the light to make it a bit warmer, add a soft focus to blur the edges a bit and crop out the unwanted portions of the picture. All in only a few easy clicks. Picasa also has a few neat little tools for doing automatic fixes, suggesting crops, etc. It can also make simple movies, posters and collages, can do geo-tagging and makes it easy to share your pictures via e-mail, Blogger and offers a photo sharing site similar to Flickr.

Here's an example of the automatic cropping. The first image is the original while the other was a suggestion from Picasa.

All in all, for simple edits, I give this one a huge thumbs up!!!