ImageMagick vs Picasa

ImageMagick

Description: ImageMagick is an open-source software suite for creating, editing, composing, and converting bitmap images. It can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

Type: software

Pricing: Free

Picasa

Description: Picasa is a free photo editing and organization software from Google. It has basic editing features like cropping, color adjustment, red-eye reduction, etc. and helps organize photos into albums with tags and captions.

Type: software

ImageMagick Features

• Image format conversion
• Resize, rotate, flip, mirror, crop and trim images
• Merge multiple images
• Add text, shapes and frames to images
• Apply filters, effects and image enhancements
• Batch process images
• Create image montages and collages
• Extract or remove image channels
• Adjust colors, brightness, contrast, gamma
• Blur, sharpen, despeckle and reduce noise

Picasa Features

• Photo editing tools like cropping, color adjustment, red-eye reduction, etc.
• Face recognition and tagging
• Geotagging of photos
• Albums to organize photos
• Sharing options to email, print or export photos
• Basic slideshow creator

ImageMagick

• Free

Picasa

• Not listed