Given Picasa's sleek interface, with scads of sharing-oriented features baked in, the editing tools might seem like an afterthought. A sliding scale in the lower right corner of the screen lets you change the size of the thumbnails. Double-clicking on the folder icon next to the folder name opens the pictures in Windows Explorer. As soon as you start typing, Picasa begins narrowing the results.Īs you scroll through the main pane of photo albums, you'll see color-blocked dividers with a folder icon, showing the name of the folder and, in each instance, a row of icons allowing you to play a full-screen slideshow create a photo collage, movie presentation, or gift CD sync the album with the Web and share the photos with others. Lastly, there's a live search bar for finding photos and albums. As you move the slider further to the right, only more recent photos will be shown, and a message in green will appear below showing you what that time cut-off is. Accompanying that is a sliding scale allowing you to show only photos taken in a certain time frame.

Next to those options is a row of icons for filtering results: users can choose to show starred photos only, movies only, or photos with faces only.

Stretching across the top, below the high-level menus, are icons for importing photos, creating an album, toggling the folder view (you can opt not to show subfolders as a tree), and for capturing photos via a webcam. Picasa 3's interface strikes a fine balance between ease of use and giving the user lots of options for sharing and organizing photos.

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