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VIRTUALISATION Picasa 3.5 gains face recognition, Google Maps integration
VIRTUALISATION Picasa 3.5 gains face recognition, Google Maps integration | Picasa 3.5 gains face recognition, Google Maps integration |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 23 September 2009 | |
  
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And now name tagging through face recognition is one of the highlights of Picasa 3.5, available for Windows and Mac OS X. The program does an initial pass to pick out the faces in the existing collection of photos, and gives the user a chance to put a name to each set of matching faces. When new photos seem to match known faces, Picasa tentatively identifies the individuals. Name tags can be exchanged between Picasa and Picasa Web Albums. If you think it's a bit creepy to provide a third party with the names of people in your photos, Picasa provides a setting that keeps the tags on your computer. On the other hand, if you've already added name tags to your Picasa Web Album, they can be downloaded to the desktop implementation. Other changes in Picasa 3.5 include the use of Google Maps for geotagging (as an alternative to, not a replacement for, Google Earth), streamlined importing (with selective uploading as part of the process) and quick tagging. Picasa 3.5 for Mac is "almost" feature-complete compared with the Windows version according to Todd Bogdan, a Google software engineer. For that reason, it is no longer considered a beta product. Picasa 3.5 can be downloaded via this page at Google's site. |
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