The prevalence of digital cameras means that many home computers are used to store hundreds if not thousands of digital photographs. It can be difficult to manage such a large collection of files, but Google Picasa may be able to help. Upon installation, the program will automatically scan your hard drive and catalogue and images that are detected, These can then be organised into groups, tagged for easy location in the future and edited using a range of simple but effective tools.

Geotagging is available so you can view the location in which a photo was taken on a map, abd the ability to create web albums mans that it is easy to share your favourite images with friends and family. Whether you're looking to correct the colours, remove red eye or fix lighting problems with imperfect images, or you want to get a little more creative, Picasa has all the tools you need to get to work with your photographs.

With 1GB of online storage provided free of charge, there is plenty of scope for displaying the best of your pictures on the internet and the effective organisation tools mean that you will never lose an image again.

Picasa 3.9 is a major update. New features include the ability to share your images through Google+ circles, Picasa name tags through Google+, more photo editing effects and a side-by-side editing feature

Note that Picasa is now unsupported by Google. We're now hosting the installation files locally.