18 April 2007

The Picasa "Feeeling Lucky" feature.

In this post, where I've published the pictures from the last trip to Eilat, I wrote that the same pictures look better in my Picasa album than in my friend Kushi's picasa album. The reason is that I've downloaded his pictures, used the "I'm feeling lucky" feature on them and uploaded them to my own Picasa album. Don't worry - I didn't violate any copyrights, I have his full unwritten (and actually also- unspoken) permission. The funny thing is that my friend Kushi has also seen the pictures in my album and he was really impressed. In fact, he was so impressed that he has deleted all of his Picasa Albums, used the "I'm feeling lucky" feature on all of the pictures and re-uploaded them back to Picasa.

One of the greatest advantages of digital photography is the ability to edit, adjust and fine-tune every image to look at it's best. But who got the tolerance to edit 500 images with Photoshop ?! The brilliance of the "I'm feeling lucky" is that it auto-adjusts the lightning and color-balance of every image momentarily with just a single click. And it really makes a difference! poor quality pail pictures suddenly look vivid and interesting. Way to go Google!

Ok, I'm feeling that I've been praising Google to much today - I promise not to do it again for at least a week...

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