Picasa

 

Here are my before and after pictures of the Knoxville skyline.

I downloaded Picasa onto my home computer and am quite impressed with how easily it functions. It automatically began importing pictures from folders that I specified. After that process was completed, it began to scan through all my pictures reading faces and grouping pictures together based on that information. This was surprisingly accurate and impressive. It even picked up faces that were on a t-shirt. This serves a great purpose as it naturally creates new groupings based on the facial recognition technology.

I investigated the movie creation and collage function. Both of these were extremely user-friendly and fun to explore. I spent more time than I should've on a collage of Christmas photos. These functions are easily mastered and have obvious uses for the classroom. I will absolutely keep Picasa on my computer and use it as my default photo viewer from now on.