Download Picasa 3.9 build 138

Google has released an update to version 3.9 of Picasa. Picasa, which is available for Windows and Mac OS X, makes it easy to manage, edit and put photos online. The program offers options for straightening the horizon, adjusting the contrast and making a crop, among other things. There is also face recognition, which makes it possible, for example, to quickly show all photos that contain a specific person.

New in version 3.9 includes the option to share photos on Google’s social network Google+, where people can also be named in the photos. Furthermore, various new edits can be applied to images and it is possible to edit two images simultaneously, side by side. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in build 136.17:

• Proper display of Drive storage used when user has unlimited quota.
• Save button in Picasa’s OneUp mode not properly enabled for large (>500 photos) folders/albums.
• Picasa was not properly refining images with pending edits in TwoUp (A|B) mode.
• [Internal] Enhance AutoBackup upload to anticipate changes to API.
• Fixed crash in AutoBackup for Windows that could occur while uploading very large files.
• [Internal] Fixed a problem obtaining the correct version for crash reports.
• Restore Picasa’s automatic conversion to JPEG format on explicit export operations (including email).
• Fix broken video uploads in Picasa (incorrect image format for thumbnails).
• Increase maximum file size from 36MB to 50MB for AutoBackup.
• Fix the Print Contact Sheet utility in Picasa to display Album date, not current date/time.
• Fix Picasa’s Save and Save As… operations were not preserving file extensions correctly.
• Fix Picasa’s text wrapping in some cases which would break on the decimal point of floating point values.
• Prevent the ability to create folders with trailing spaces in their name during Picasa’s Import utility.
• [Internal] Add better diagnostics to logfile for AutoBackup.
• Remove the unused Picasa option to Upload people album thumbnails to Google Contacts..

The following downloads are available:
Google Picasa for Windows
Google Picasa for OS X