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Picasa
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Picasa is a discontinued, cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Picasa
- Software.title
- Picasa
- Software.logo
- Picasa Logo.svg
- Software.logo_size
- x64px
- Software.screenshot
- File:Picasa 3.9.jpg
- Software.caption
- Picasa version 3.9.137.141 on Windows 8.1
- Software.author
- Lifescape, Inc.
- Software.developer
- Lifescape (Google)
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.replaced_by
- Google Photos
- Software.operating system
- Desktop:Windows, OS X, Linux Television: LG Smart TV, Orsay Google TV, Sony Internet TV
- Software.genre
- Image organizer, image viewer
- Software.license
- Freeware
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- picasa.google.com
- Image
- Picasa-KIPI-plugin.png
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- Commons category
- Picasa Web Albums
- software version identifier
- 3.9 141.259
- inception
- 2002-10-15
- discontinuation date
- 2016-05-01
- publication date
- 2004-00-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/picasa
- described at URL
- tapor.ca/tools/1495
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19 sectionsContents
- Version history
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Features
- Organization and editing
- Keywords
- Searching
- Viewing
- Backup
- Face recognition
- Geotagging
- Other Picasa applications
- Picasa Web Albums
- Hello
- Discontinuation
- See also
- References
- External links
Picasa is a discontinued, cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures.
Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and macOS were available. Linux support was provided by bundling the Windows version alongside the Wine compatibility layer. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.