
While Google has decided to focus on a single application to manage photos and made it possible for users to keep their files synced in Google Drive, Windows users have to look for a new photo organizer native app. Users with a Picasa account who missed to migrate on time, have no worries! All of your photos and videos automatically backed up in Google Photos, as the post claims. If you choose to download the app from other sources, you may see error messages when trying to upload or download files.Īs off now you will not be able to upload or download photos and videos, create online albums, or delete online photos, videos and albums.

The official Google Picasa Blog posted an update on Mato announce that the Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online.

Important Update on Picasa Desktop Application If you fall in this category, then using Picasa on your Windows 8, Windows 10 computer is the next best thing. We’re still looking for an official Windows 8, Windows 10 Picasa app, but you can resort to the desktop version or a third-party app called Picasa HDĮvery once in a while, we want to modify our pictures and post them on social networks such as Facebook or Google+, and while the skills required to use a program like Photoshop are not achieved over night, some might want a simpler alternative.

Aside from this Picasa supports a wide range of image formats (although not the animation on an animated GIF), including Google’s WebP format its search feature works similar to Google’s for an easy, intuitive searching through your collections of images.Home › Reviews › Picasa app ends support for Windows 8, Windows 10 Picasa’s features are many and varied it supports tagging of images, searching using various filters and by tags, importing, and even facial recognition and geotagging, where it can add location data to your image for a more personalized touch. Picasa, aside from being renowned the world over for its capability to sort your image files, can also edit pictures using basic tools such as red eye reduction, filters, cropping, sharpness and color enhancement, and text captions. Picasa is a free download from Google and the software also includes access to an integrated photo-sharing website, similar to Flickr, via Google Accounts, and onling photo printing services. It was originally created by a developer called Lifescape and its famous name is patterned after the celebrated painter Picasso and the Spanish “mi casa”, which means “my house”. Picasa is an image viewing and image editing software developed and published by Google since 2004, after its acquisition of the rights to the software.
