Fun With Picasa 3.9 (Please click on first photo to enlarge in most browsers)

Picasa 3.9 Pencil Sketch Effect, all three photos.

You're minding your own business, using a favorite piece of cloud based software, when a dialog box pops up...."A new version is available, do you want to update?"  Not wanting to be a Luddite, you roll the dice and say yes, fearing the worst, you start up the new version, and yes --  a few things have obviously changed. Some buttons have moved, but you make a quick check, and all of the functionalities you need are all still there. Then you decide to check out some of the new features. Hmmmm?  

Such was the case with my recent upgrade to Picasa 3.9 .  Temporary alarm was replaced with curiosity as I began to use the two new editing tabs that Google has borrowed from Picnik.  Now this is bit curious as Google is closing Picnik effective April 19,  and moving it to Google+, but it does give Picasa a little more sex appeal, as it was beginning to lag way behind such editors as BeFunky and smartphone editors.

I am still getting familiar with the new features, but the photos above, and below,  from my Dinoglow site,  include use of the Pencil Sketch, Ortonish, and HDR, Neon and Comic Book features.

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect.

Picasa 3.9 Pixel effect

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect with Collage

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect

Picasa 3.9 Neon effect plus Comic Book

Picasa 3.9 Ortonish effect