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In the age of the digital camera, users are overwhelmed by a flood of images. Picasa not only helps you manage photos but also will enhance the image quality with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Since digital cameras made it easy for users to shoot as many photos as they like without spending a fortune on processing and printing, many photographers have made excessive use of this option. The result is an enormous, jumbled collection of photos on home PCs. Google's Picasa [1] manages photos and also supports easy image editing.
Various add-on functions give users the ability to upload photos to web albums or photo labs and to create incremental image backups. With the press of a button, Picasa will create collages and contact prints or export selected photos or folders as HTML pages for uploading to the Internet.
As of this writing, Google does not offer a native Linux port of Picasa. Fortunately, the installer includes a customized Wine environment to ensure trouble-free launching of the program on Linux (Figure 1). I tested version 2.7 of the software.
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