PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tags Google:Picasa & freeware

Windows/Linux: Picasa, Google's photo management tool, has quietly announced a new beta that adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, and many other features and changes. Actually, the biggest change in the new Picasa isn't in the software itself—it's a new "quick view" utility, which replaces the basic double-click viewing tool in Windows with a Picasa-friendly, drop-cloth-style window. Five new collage styles have also been added to the offerings, and Picasa's new "Movie Maker" tool lets you create slideshow-style clips out of stills or trim and paste video clips together. Check out Picasa's help section for more details on what's new and what's changed, or read on for a peek at some screenshots from the new release.

The Picasa2Lightroom Button : Very easy to post process your favorite pictures in Lightroom, while your picture database and basic editing (crop, straighten, red-eye) stays in Picasa. If you know your way in Lightroom you can also define an export script which exports your post processed images back to the directory that is being indexed by Picasa. This way, all your images, originals and edited shot are being stored in one and the same place. Free Adobe Lightroom : Analog Photography Presets :

Based on the proof of concept provided by Tabblo and using the nice flickj api, picasa2flickr provides a kind of plugin to picasa that allows users to export their photos to flickr. The mechanism: 1. Using a custom "BlogThis" Button, picasa posts XML data