Picasa and Picasa Web

One of my other new favorite applications is Picasa and Picasa Web.  Picasa is a photo organizational application that has a local version, meaning it is a download onto your computer.  Local Picasa is a photo catalog.  It helps organize all of the photos on the local machine.  Through Picasa local, one can create collages, edit photos, create slide shows, create movies, email photos, blog, print and order photos or photo gifts directly from Picasa with a click of a few buttons to your favorite local print shop in town.  A few features Picasa also contains is face recognition of peope in your photos and Geo Tagging. Once people are tagged in Picasa, it will automatically tag them in the future.  Unless you have twins and they look alike, then it won't let you take them differently as it sees them as one person. :)  Geo tagging put a geographical location to your photos as to where they were taken.

Organizing my digital photos, has been a challenge as up until now I had not decided on a particular tool to make it happen.  Picasa does it for me.  With Picasa Web, or what is now Google+, I can easily upload photos from my phone to an online album, that I can access anywhere to share with friends and family. Being able to upload photos from my phone also saves me storage on my mobile phone storage card but I still have access to them whenever I want.

I was concerned about the storage in Picasa web as my pictures from my cell phone are 8 megapixels, which makes for large files.  Picasa and Google have very reasonable upgrade storage prices as seen below...

	20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)
	80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
	200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
	400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
	1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)

So when I meet my maximum storage on Picasa Web/Google+, I can easily and afford-ably upgrade to maintain easy online access to my photos.