STA travelbuzz’s Best Travel Tools: Picasa
Ah, holiday photos. Remember the bad old days, when you had to spend 3 hours with your Auntie Maureen on her return from Blackpool, ploughing through 300 super-large glossies of ‘funny’ seagulls? Or 5 hours wading through the three-volume, smugger than smug snaps of your post-gap year pal who wanted you to see every single ‘amazing’ African child she single-handedly saved from a life of poverty and pain?
Nowadays at least we can all look at (or ignore) each other’s travel photos at our leisure, as we upload our professional-quality digital images instantly onto Facebook day by day. But you’re in danger of becoming Auntie Maureen mark 2 if you don’t keep abreast of the latest photo sites - yes, people, there is life beyond Flickr.
This is something our STA Explorers Neil and Megan know only too well. With photos from their round the world trip building up, they’ve elected to put the whole album on Picasa. The uncluttered design means that your images really do take centre stage, and the comments are much more prominent and attractive than on Flickr or Facebook. You can share your photos or download your friends’ albums very easily, and Neil particularly rates the geotagging facility, where you can display a map with pins showing where each photo was taken.
So why not try something different for your travel photos? Check out Picasa here and look at Neil’s album to see how it works.
