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Its red-eye fix no longer requires you to select each eyeball, and you can wipe out scratches and blemishes in old pictures with a simple, effective retouch command.
But Picasa 3 persists in assuming that you will first sort your photos by the day you took them, resulting in a lengthy list of date-specific folders that you'll eventually want to consolidate -- or ignore in favor of collecting photos in a separate series of albums. Picasa lets you assign tags ( family, D.C., field trip ) to pictures, but its tagging interface lacks the obviousness of the label system in Google's Gmail.
Picasa 3 adds one new way to sift through your shots, a Select photos with faces command. This automatic tool can err -- it thought an antique streetlight in front of a building hid a human face. But it can also speed the process of picking out shots of friends. Its real potential awaits in Picasa Web Albums, where a name tag option can find friends in photos for you.
This update to Picasa throws in some nifty, if not quite essential, additions to its photo-sharing options, such as fancier collages of pictures and movies woven together from a series of photos.
Adobe's Photoshop Elements 7 brings a different mix of upgrades and oversights. Its photo-management features, among the few to offer the same flexibility and simplicity as Apple's iPhoto, take a step up with Adobe's Find Faces for Tagging command, which scans through your entire photo library for any portraits



The company also owns downtown Poulsbo property where Liberty Bay Books, JJ's Fish House and That's A Some Italian are located, but that property is not for sale.
Prospective buyers have already contacted the company, she said.
'The opportunities are limitless,' she said. 'It's a unique location.'
It sits at one corner of the busy intersection in the middle of downtown Poulsbo.
Currently, the site is a handful of buildings cobbled together, and includes the Poulsbo Antique Mall and Olympic Outdoor Center. The large Grieg Hall and the former Nielsen's Appliances buildings are unoccupied.
The sale of the entire block shouldn't be a total surprise, as it's been offered up before. In May 2007, the Mentor Company offered the block as one of several proposals from developers for a new city hall property.
Armstrong Fitness briefly occupied the Nielsen's building in the summer of 2007, but moved because of building code violations


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