March 15th, 2012· Fixed various crashes based on crash reports.
December 17th, 2011· Fixed various crashes.
· Fixed name tags and contacts issues.
December 9th, 2011· Added ability to upload to Google+: share with circles, post pictures to your stream, and upload images at original size.
· Social Tagging: name tag people in your Google+ circles and notify them via G+.
· New photo editing effects, including: Infrared, Lomo-ish, Holga-ish, HDR-ish, Cinemascope, Orton-ish, Sixties, Invert Colors, Heat Map, Nightvision, Cross Process, Posterize, Duo-Tone, Boost, Soften, Vignette/Matte, Pixelate/Focal Pixelate, Focal Zoom, Pencil Sketch, Neon, Comic Book, Border, Rounded Edges, Drop Shadow, Museum Matte, Polaroid
· Side by side editing: compare two pictures side-by-side, or compare different edits on the same picture.
· Updated RAW support for pictures from newer cameras.
· Support for WebP files.
· On the Tools > Experimental menu, we've added support for migrating your database to another local drive.
· Improvements to Face Movie maker: number of photos included, chronological ordering.
· Sync now uploads unshared albums privately.
· Improved restoring of virtual albums when you uninstall and reinstall, or move to a new computer. Album data is written to the picasa.ini file now, along with all of your other edits.
· OAuth support: use 2-factor accounts without getting an application-specific password.
December 11th, 2010· Fixed the 'Picasa is moving My Contacts to Other Contacts' issue.
· Updated various translations.
November 17th, 2010· Fixed various translation issues.
· Face Movies now correctly display captions.
· Fixed broken imports via iPhoto ‘11.
· English detection now working when creating Gift CDs.
October 21st, 2010· Now available in 35 languages.
September 30th, 2010· Fixed "Manage Online Contacts" 403 errors.
· Fixed a corrupt metadata bug.
· Fixed various Face Movie crashes.
September 16th, 2010· Fixed problems upgrading facetags from 3.6 and several other issues with cropped/rotated files.
· Fixed screensaver issues with cropped pictures and captions not displaying.
· Create a Face Movie from a selection of photos in the tray (instead of using the entire Person Album).
· Original file jpeg quality preserved when saving from Picnik.
· Color Management is now turned off by default.
· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes.
August 18th, 2010· Face Movie --You might be in charge of making a slideshow for a birthday party or wedding. Maybe you have only have two days and all you have is a bunch of group photos. Don’t panic. With the new Face Movie, you can quickly create a slideshow featuring that special someone, centered around that special someone, complete with transitions, music and captions.
· Batch Upload -- Manage and organize your photos -- We've improved the the upload feature so that you can upload to Picasa Web Albums, and share with your Google contact groups at the same time. You can also remove albums, change upload size, visibility, or the sync state of photos that are already online on Picasa Web Albums.
· Edit in Picnik -- Apply Picnik magic to your photo by selecting Edit in Picnik from the Basic Effects tab. Picnik is an easy and powerful photo-editor that allows you to edit photos easily, share them and save them back to Picasa Web Albums, right in your browser.
· Properties panel -- Picasa now supports XMP along with EXIF data. Image data is now available in the Properties panel along with places and tags. Use the information to see exactly which camera settings you used when you took the photo.
July 23rd, 2010· Fix to various crashes during initial scan/startup as a result of Quicktime.
· Translation fixes.
May 6th, 2010· Drag and drop in Collage Maker for Mosaic, Frame Mosaic, and Grid.
April 14th, 2010· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes.
· Fixed translation errors.
Several backup fixes including:
· Disk-to-disk backup
· Filtering previously backed up folders
· Selecting the correct backup set in list
March 31st, 2010· Now available in 35 languages.
December 16th, 2009· Made a stability fix to Timeline.
· Fixed an issue where Picasa would only show the face thumbnail when a new album is created from a 'People' album.
· Fixed several issues in the import process.
· Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping into another folder didn't actually move the photo.
December 8th, 2009Added support for collaborative albums in Picasa:
· The ability to make your own albums collaborative.
· The ability to upload to a friend's album.
· Added better name tag recommendations.
· Added the ability (in the Folder Manager) to remove folders from being scanned for faces
· Added the ability to create (and save) custom crop sizes.
· Added an option in Settings to preserve the original JPG compression value when uploading to Picasa Web Albums.
· Imports can now be saved automatically by date taken, today's date, or a custom folder name. If date taken is selected, photos will be saved in separate folders by date.
November 4th, 2009· Improved stability when downloading photos from Picasa Web Albums.
Added RAW support for the following cameras:
· Canon EOS 7D
· Olympus E-620
· Canon EOS 500D
· Olympus E-P1
· Canon PowerShot A530
· Pentax K-7
· Canon PowerShot G11
· Panasonic DMC-FZ35
· Canon PowerShot A470
· Sony DSLR-A230
· Kodak EasyShare Z980
· Sony DSLR-A330
· Kodak EasyShare Z1015
· Sony DSLR-A380
· Nikon D3000
· Sony DSLR-A8
· Nikon D5000
October 16th, 2009· Stability improvements.
October 1st, 2009· Fixed an issue where editing contact information in Picasa altered the formating of contact information at http://contacts.google.com/
· Added a progress bar when batch editing with 'Auto Red Eye Correction.'
· Fixed an issue where the 'Tools' < 'Clear Geotag' menu item was disabled for geotagged photos.
· Fixed a memory leak on Mac that occured while uploading.
· Increased stability through multiple crash fixes. Thanks for reporting!
September 23rd, 2009· Note that this is an English release only.
· Added name tags in the Picasa software.
· Improved geotagging: You can now geotag in Picasa using Google Maps in the 'Places' tab.
Improved keyword tagging:
· New 'Tags' tab for easier tag management.
· New Quick Tag buttons to make tagging easier.
· Import changes
· Added the ability to upload and share while importing.
· Added the ability to add stars and upload only starred images during the import process.
· Added the ability to modify the date and time on pictures. 'Tools > Adjust date and time.'
· The Sharpen slider is now more responsive.
July 31st, 2009· Fixed an issue where applying the 'Retouch' edit created a 0kb new file.
· Fixed an issue where Picasa for Mac caused very high CPU usage for some users.
· Various crash fixes.
May 5th, 2009· Increased video upload limit from Picasa for Mac to Picasa Web Albums to 1 GB in filesize, but unlimited in length of duration (in minutes/seconds).
Updated RAW support for new cameras:
· Canon EOS 5D Mark II
· Canon EOS 50D
· Canon PowerShot G10
· FujiFilm IS Pro
· Nikon D90
· Nikon COOLPIX P6000
· Pentax K2000
· Panasonic DMC-FZ28
· Panasonic DMC-LX3
· Panasonic DMC-FX150
· Panasonic DMC-G1
March 3rd, 2009· Added 'Export as HTML Page' feature.
· Added 'Shop' button which allows you to order prints from regional print providers.
· Picasa for Mac color profiles should now align with other viewing applications.
· Added support for deleting photos on network drives.
· Files and folders containing '/' will now be scanned and displayed.
· Introduced stability fixes for video playback and moviemaker.
· Movies created by Picasa should now play correctly on YouTube.
February 3rd, 2009· Fixed a crash on launch when an iPhone is connected.
· Fixed a bug which was causing some jpegs to be saved incorrectly.
· Various other minor fixes.
January 24th, 2009· Numerous bug fixes based on initial beta feedback.
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