Picasa is an free pictures organizer from Google. Now it’s available for Linux. You can create Web Album, Email, Print, Blog, Collage (It’s cool), Export (resize & change the quality) to a new file.
Other things that you can do:
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Find the pictures you forgot you had
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Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa
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Add a star rating
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Keep one pictures in multiple albums
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Password protect collections
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Amazing effects turn so-so pictures into works of art
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Write captions that stay with the picture
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Zoom. Pan. Tilt. Get the angle you intended
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It has RGB histogram, a real-time graph that shows the intensity of colors in your pictures.
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Create slide show.
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Export pictures to popular photo processing website.
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Burn to CD or DVD.
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Give gift CDs with slide shows.
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Create a network back backup of your pictures.
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Turn your photo into a movie.
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Make a personalized desktop picture or screen saver.
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Create a poster.
Step 1. Download the program.
Go to http://picasa.google.com/linux/ and click ‘Download Picasa 2.7 for Linux‘ to download the program.
The file size is 23MB.
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Choose Debian/Ubuntu format. If you use 32 bit processor choose (32bit) and choose (64bit) if you use 64bit processor.
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Downloading process will automatically start.
Step 3. Installation.
From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
Goto your the directory where you download the Picasa installation file.
For example, I downloaded the installation file in “mydata/my_ubuntu_collection/packages/”, so I type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ cd mydata/my_ubuntu_collection/packages/
Then, use the command below to install the program. It will take a minute.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~/mydata/my_ubuntu_collection/packages$ sudo dpkg -i picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb
[sudo] password for taufanlubis:
Selecting previously deselected package picasa.
(Reading database … 164694 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking picasa (from picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb) …
Setting up picasa (2.7.3736-15) …
taufanlubis@toshiba:~/mydata/my_ubuntu_collection/packages$
Step 4. Run the program.
Click Applications, Graphics, Picasa and Picasa.
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For the first run, it will show you a ‘License Agreement‘. Just click ‘Next‘.
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Then click ‘I Agree‘.
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At the first run, Picasa will collects all pictures available in your hard disk. It will take time based on number of your pictures.
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After that, it’s ready to use.
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The menu is very simple, so just try it by yourself.
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Manual available at : http://picasa.google.com/support/
I want to install this software in my product.
Thanks a lot
hi
Cheers for this post, I’ve learned a lot more now about mp3’s. My personal favorite is a directory I found somewhere on google. It contains hundreds of music files. I’ve added the link in that website url option. I hope to see more posts from you!