I just downloaded Picasa 3.5, and so far I am pretty impressed with the facial recognition ability that it has. I know this is nothing new, but this is a great addition to the already impressive free photo managing and light editing software from Google.
The interface seems pretty easy and straight forward. Picasa can detect faces automatically in photos or albums of photos and prompt you to enter (or not enter) the name of the person in the photo. You can also enter names and select faces manually. It then searches all of your photos and tags any other pictures with tagged faces.
It looks like mine is going to take over a day to scan all the photos (I’ve entered about a dozen names and have probably more than 100,000 images for it to go through..so yours may not take so long).
Google Picasa 3.5 and it will take you to the free download page. Even if you don’t want the facial recognition ability, Picasa works great for importing, organizing, and making common photo adjustments like cropping, red eye removal, black and white, color/contrast correction etc. It even has a tool that works like the healing brush in Photo shop to remove errors or blemishes. FREEEEEEEE try it out.
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