Like every year, summer offers up lots of great photo opportunities. I’ve been shooting hundreds of digital photos all summer long and now that my schedule has calmed down a bit, it’s time to pull them down off the camera and organize them for later. I saw this little bit of tech news the other day that I thought I’d share with ChannelBV readers.

Because it can take a long time to go through all of your photos, sort them into albums and then put labels on each so they’re useful for later, Google has a new feature to their free photo management software. Picassa has been around for quite some time, but the spiffy new feature that they just released is Face Recognition. When you’re using their software, after you identify a person a couple of times, the software will then go and scan through all your photos, new and old, to find all instances of that person and will then tag (label) the photos it finds with that persons name. From Cnet and Techcrunch,

“Our face-matching technology works best when a person is looking at the camera,” Mike Horowitz, Google’s Picasa product manager told CNET. “There are a variety of factors that may limit our success in matching faces, including profile views and challenging lighting conditions like shadows.”

The article on the product release continues here.

I’ve been using Picasa for several years now and I enjoy it’s smooth interface and intuitive feature set. It makes photo management and sharing a breeze. Perhaps best of all, it’s free! Give it a download and see what you think.

PS If you’re interested, I took the photo above with a Digital Camera from Aiptek that I’m very fond of. You can find a profile of the camera over @ YBWhoUR.

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