Picasa for Linux 3.0 Beta Fileforum Pick

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (17 votes)

BETA (August 21, 2009)

Linux / Freeware / 2,212 downloads

Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.

  • Publisher

    Google

  • Homepage

    Picasa

  • Latest Changes

    - Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums

    - You can sync your Picasa 3 and Web Albums edits, change your online album settings from Picasa, and delete online albums from Picasa

    - Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling

    - New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality

    - Improved Collage tool lets you have total artistic control over your collage content and layout

    - Auto red-eye: same results, less work for you

  • Other Versions

    Picasa for Windows

    Picasa for Mac OS X

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Reviews of Picasa for Linux

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    PagingDrLeoMarvin

    Reviewing 2.2.2820 (Nov 11, 2008)

    I love Picasa, but why doesn't FileForum link to the recent Beta version?

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Frostek

    Reviewing 2.2.2820 (Oct 23, 2008)

    Picasa 3.0 Beta (3.0.5719-02)

    http://picasa.google.com.../download.html#picasa30

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    havas

    Reviewing 2.2.2820 (May 30, 2006)

    really nice but note a true linux version

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    fair_is_fair

    Reviewing 2.2.2820 (May 27, 2006)

    I know the die-hard linux gurus are upset because Picasa is not a true linux version. It uses Wine to run in linux.

    Personally, I don't care as long as it works. I have always found Picasa very handy in windows and this release just makes linux more attractive to me.

    I'm pleased.

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    Don Juan

    Reviewing 2.2.2820 (May 27, 2006)

    Wine is not an emulator, it is a kernel module that maps windows system calls to *nix system calls. Technically it's running natively in Linux. There is no room to argue that Wine causes a performance hit, because Cedega which is just a commercialized version of Wine runs windows games great, in many cases they even perform better than they do in windows.

    Here is a description of wine from the official web site www.winehq.com:

    Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.

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