Picasa 2 is great

Earlier this week Google released version 2 of their photo management software, Picasa. We've been trying it out and it rocks. I won't have to help my family share photos online anymore :)

This is the first photo album program I've used that is fast, free, powerful, and has an easy to use interface. It provides all the touch-up functionality needed to enhance photos as well as tools for sharing the photos on a website, a CD, or by email. And that includes support for web-based email like Gmail, something sorely missing from the picture email functionality built into Windows.

Even though I use ACDSee, a powerful but complex image manager, I'm going to install Picasa as well because of it's Blogger and Gmail tools.