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Google has announced the release of Picasa 3.5, the new version of free photo editing software from Google.The new version of Picasa 3.5 comes with the ability to add name tags to your photos. Name tags are designed to help you organize your photos based on the people in the photos.

You can easily add a name tag by clicking “Add a name” and typing the person’s name. After you’ve added name tags to some photos, you can use your tags to do creative things, like quickly find all the photos with the same two people in them, make a face collage with just one click or upload and share people albums with friends.

Picasa 3.5 also has integrated Google Maps to make geotagging even easier. Now you can add location info to photos — one photo at a time or several photos at once.

Simply select pictures, click the Places panel, search or surf to a place, and drop a pin in the right place on the map. Once you’ve added geo tags, you can select a group of photos and see where they were all taken

Picasa 3.5 is available for both PC and Mac, in English for now. You can download and try it today at picasa.google.com

In my opinion, having a name tagging feature in a local image editing software is certainly a cool feature, we as Web 2.0 citizens are already aware about the name tagging feature ( thanks to Facebook, Orkut and others) and it will definitely be a big value add when it comes to organizing local photos based on the people in the photographs.

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