Google has release version 3.5 of Picasa, the popular free photo editor.
The latest addition to the software is face recognition, which works locally on the PC.
When users either upgrade or install, the software (by default) will start to process all photos with faces and get you to tag them.
According to come sauces the process is pretty slow and the accuracy at this stage isn’t great.
“As with Picasa Web Albums, your reward for trudging through your photos to add tags is better organization, which for a massive library of old, archived shots can be hugely helpful,” thinks Josh Lowensohn, from CNet.
Picasa has also tidied-up geo-tagging functions. Until this version you had to install Google Earth in order to sort your locations of photos. There is now a “places” sidebar that will allow users to simply drag photos to their location from which the photograph was snapped.
Here is a handy video which shows off some of the new features:
