Picasa

Also known as Google Picasa

Picasa is a discontinued, cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures.

Key facts

Software.name: Picasa
Software.title: Picasa
Software.logo: Picasa Logo.svg
Software.logo_size: x64px
Software.screenshot: File:Picasa 3.9.jpg
Software.caption: Picasa version 3.9.137.141 on Windows 8.1
Software.author: Lifescape, Inc.
Software.developer: Lifescape (Google)
Software.discontinued: yes
Software.replaced_by: Google Photos
Software.operating system: Desktop:Windows, OS X, Linux Television: LG Smart TV, Orsay Google TV, Sony Internet TV
Software.genre: Image organizer, image viewer
Software.license: Freeware

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections

Contents

Version history
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
Features
Organization and editing
Keywords
Searching
Viewing
Backup
Face recognition
Geotagging
Other Picasa applications
Picasa Web Albums
Hello
Discontinuation
See also
References
External links

Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and macOS were available. Linux support was provided by bundling the Windows version alongside the Wine compatibility layer. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Picasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.