2006-05-04 Picasa (Technical)

I love almost everything about Picasa, but there are some drawbacks:

• rotations (Straighten tool) always show up blurry, even when you finally export the pictures to a new image. It’s noticeably better to do the rotations in the graphics program of your choice, like Photoshop or GIMP.
• searching isn’t as flexible as the rest of google’s products. For instance, you can’t search for all pictures that don't have a particular label. Support for the minus sign ’-’ in searches seems non-existent.

A very cool thing that I discovered is that Picasa supports uploading to a number of different online photo services from Picasa itself. That is, you don’t have to download a bunch of different lame programs from each online photo place, Picasa will upload your Picasa photos with its own interface to their site. This seems to work well for Kodak EasyShare at least. When you have pictures in your Picture Tray, just select “Order Prints” and you can upload stuff to the online photo site of your choice. It’s nice.