Picasa
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Picasa – Google‘s image organisation and photo retouching program for Windows – reached version 2.0 a while ago and now has Gmail integration. This, combined with the incredibly useful (and simple) photo retouching tools put it in the running for ’my new favourite Windows program’.
The above picture is a ‘Before/After’ comparison of Picasa’s “I’m feeling lucky” retouching tool and then slightly increasing the colour temperature to restore skin tones. For what was initially a quick and cheap shot taken in a club (5th Avenue in Manchester), the result is suddenly far more respectable.
I’m very pleased with it. All for free, too.
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Wow: how on Earth did I miss this? If I weren’t running Debian at the moment I’d go and install it ;-)
Did you ever use the Adobe Photoshop Album? Picasa is essentially a lot like that, but better, and not as slow.
I’m not sure about Linux, apart from the comedy gold that is Linspire’s ongoing existance. There’s always LPhoto snigger ahem.
I still do use the Adobe Photoshop Album. Although potentially not for much longer…