Bohemian Journey

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Picasa2 and Flickr are not made for each other; in fact they are the picture-perfect brainchildren of two fierce competitors, Google and Yahoo!.

Picasa2 was designed to work with Picasa Web Albums, a Google web-application with similar purpose as Flickr although the latter is far more superior than PWA. Used alone, these gadgets are superb products, but coupled together, they are a match made in Web 2.0 heaven.

I’ve been using Flickr for years and completely happy with it.  However, Flickr only serves the online need and overlooks the offline part of a complete photo management process. Up until yesterday, I have tried and used other desktop applications, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp and Irfanview to manage and edit my photos. These software are best for viewing and editing , but still leave the organizing of the photos to me.

So when I tried out Picasa2 yesterday, I was very pleased.  Not only Picasa2 has all the necessary, basic features: cropping, sharpening, tunning and filtering, it has the extra collage
feature which proves to be extremely useful for many topics of my travel blogs. Last but not least, Picasa2 acts as photo library and explorer (think Windows Explorer), automatically searching for and collecting images on the computer.

Picasa2 and Flickr combo brings the best of both world: an easy-to-used and feature packed offline photo management tool plus a kick-ass online photo sharing website.