Category: Linux

Yes Edit, Publish and Download Picture for Free with Google’s Picas. The Picasa 2.7 is packed up with features like web album upload and download, localization in many languages, folder hierarchy views, better RAW support and more. Google contributed to Wine’s development, by contracting with CodeWeavers to improve Wine to run Picasa 2.2 in a proper way. Google also asked some interns to work on some areas of Wine, such as widl, msi, riched20, etc.

You can download and upload images from and respectively to Picasa Web Albums, in a simple and easy manner and you can distribute your Picasa Web Album URL to your friends too. When you want to share some photos, let’s say you took on a trip, you can post them online by using the new “Web Album” button. The albums can be downloaded directly into Picasa by using Firefox. The photo edits you do can be saved to disk, and you can revert to the original file, in case you do something wrong.

You can work with RAW files from cameras like Canon 30D, Nikon D200, with Adobe DNG files and much more. The photo import from a camera to Picasa is much faster now. Larger thumbnails, better caption editing, ability to configure the row of buttons, a special “Starred Photos” album are only a few of the new features and improvements of Picasa 2.7.

Picasa really shines when it comes to organizing pictures, with improved search capabilities and a time-line slide-show function for beautifully displaying your photo collection. It also automatically resizes your photos for e-mailing. You get several options for storage and sharing. You can burn albums to DVD or CD, print pictures at home
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The Picasa package is made up of the Picasa application, Wine and the web page rendering engine Gecko. If you want to use Picasa, you must have the following Requirements

For Linux:

• To download from Picasa Web Albums, you will need a Mozilla-based browser.
• Intel 386-compatible CPU
• glibc 2.3 or greater
• a Linux kernel >= 2.6.13 (this is necessary only if you want to be notified of file changes; if you have a newer kernel and HAL – Hardware Abstraction Layer – the new media you insert is automatically detected).
• Linux kernel >= 2.6.13, HAL >= 0.56, libgphoto2 and gnome-volume-manager or equivalent are required for camera detection and integration.
• Recent version of GNOME or KDE.

Download Picasa 2 for Linux right now from Here….

Installing Picasa :

If you’re using a recent version of Linux, you should be able to pick “Open With Default Application” or double-click on the downloaded .rpm file to install.

If that doesn’t work, open a terminal window and install with a command like

$ sudo rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm

or

$ su
# rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm
# exit

After installation Start Picasa by looking in your Linux distribution’s Graphics menu. If you can’t find it there, give the command

# /usr/bin/picasa

in a terminal window.

For Windows:

• PC with 300MHz Pentium® processor and MMX® technology.
• 64 MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
• 50 MB available hard disk space (100MB recommended)
• 800 × 600 pixels, 16 bit colour monitor.
• Microsoft® Windows 2000, or Microsoft® Windows XP.*
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 or better (6.0 recommended). If at any time you get an “unable to authenticate” error, you should upgrade to IE 6.0.
• Microsoft® DirectX 7.0 or higher (8.1 ships with XP, 9.0b recommended).

Download Picasa 2 for Windows right now from Here….

Double-click on the downloaded .exe file to install then run it form program files.

Now you can use the application for editing the images and publish it to Picasa Web Albums. Also you can download images which ever you missed or deleted from you PC from Picasa Web Albums. Remember its also an absolute free service from Grate Google.