Other free drawing software, which I looked at is called the Gimp. This is the most popular free image drawing software, which currently can be found on the Internet. This is quite similar to Adobe Photoshop, and I was amazed they are in comparable. Initially popular with comic books and manga artists in Japan, training materials, is currently available online in English. One thing to take note of the software, which is quite different compared to the other is that I would recommend to buy drawing tablet for your computer. This is really inconvenient to use the mouse, and if serious about this with the help of a special free drawing program I would highly recommend drawing tablet so that you can use a pen. When 3D illustrations or tablet may be useful, but you can get a fine with the mouse. For the real picture or painting on the PC nothing beats tablet. If you prefer to use a rock, Stick with the mouse, but if you want to do with a pencil, pen or brush, you will feel at home with the pills. For more information about the Gimp go here: http://www.gimp.org.
Inkscape is an illustration of a similar software for commercial packages Adobe Freehand and Adobe Illustrator, but it is free drawing software. If you would like to try to make some very happy pure computer drawings, as you see in magazines and on television, this software can help you get started. I played with this free drawing software, and quickly created this smiley face. Example software is important to find out who wants to be a designer. Why not start today with the same tools similar to what pros use? For more information, refer to http://www.inkscape.org.
At this morning I saw on main Google page that it is celebrating 10 years old, congratulations! And by the way I saw link to download of new Picasa version.
Let's read what Google says about new version of Picasa - great photo viewing, editing, categorizing and publishing free software:
Sync your Picasa 3 and Picasa Web Albums edits
Tired of having to manually re-upload your photos after making further edits? By enabling 'Sync to Web,' edits made to your photos in Picasa 3 are automatically transferred to your corresponding online albums.
You can sync the following changes:
- Picasa 3 edits (Basic Fixes, Tuning, and Effects)
- Photos added or deleted in Picasa 3
- Captions, tags, or geotags
Getting started
The Sync to Web button 
is located on the right side of each folder or album header. When you click this button, you'll first be prompted to upload the photos in that folder or album to Picasa Web Albums. You can change the upload size, album privacy setting, or even add a watermark to your uploaded photos. When the upload is complete, any subsequent Picasa 3 edits to those photos will automatically transfer to your online album.
Troubleshooting
You can disable the sync feature at any time by clicking the Sync to Web button again, or by selecting Disable Sync in the drop-down menu to the right of the Share button in the folder or album header. All your photos and their edits up to this point remain online, but any new edits and changes will no longer be synchronized.
The following changes don't transfer to your online albums:
- Reordering photos
- Changes made to folder or album properties
- Changes made to filenames
Retouch your images
Always want to be airbrushed? Use the Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality. It can also help you to restore old photos with marks, water stains, and scratches to excellent condition.
When editing any photo, just click the Retouch button 
on the 'Basic Fixes' tab. Adjust the size of your brush, and use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the photo for precise edits. Click once to highlight the area you'd like to retouch, and then find another portion of the picture that should take the place of your highlighted area. Hover over this replacement area and click a second time.
Preview image files with Picasa Photo Viewer
The photo viewer is a fast, lightweight application for viewing images on your desktop or through Windows Explorer. Installed with Picasa 3, it lets you to take a quick look at images without having to fully open the Picasa 3 program.
What you can do with the photo viewer:
- Add stars, zoom in and out with your mouse scroll wheel, rotate, or proceed to Picasa 3 to make more extensive edits.
- Upload directly from the photo viewer to Picasa Web Albums or Blogger. Jump right into emailing or printing as well.
From your computer desktop or from within Windows Explorer, just double-click any image file 
to launch the Picasa Photo Viewer. You can reconfigure the file types that the photo viewer will display by clicking the Tools menu in Picasa 3 and selecting Configure Photo Viewer.
Create and edit movies
Combine your photos, videos, and music into a movie or use the editing room to trim your existing movies.
Creating movies
Use the movie maker to combine your photos, videos, and music into a movie, and create a Windows Media file. Share it with friends by uploading it directly to YouTube.
About the movie maker:
- You have complete creative control - change the music sync, the slide duration, and slide transition style, among other things.
- Supported audio formats include mp3 and .wma.
- Add text slides: Create a title slide or a divider to provide some context. You can choose to include your photo captions as well.
There are two ways to launch the movie creation screen:
- Create a movie for all photos in a folder or album by clicking the Create Movie Presentation button
in the folder or album header. - If you'd like to pick and choose photos from different collections, place them in the Photo Tray and click the larger Movie button
in the Photo Tray.
Editing movies
When playing any video in Picasa 3, explore these features:
- Use the In and Out buttons in the lower-right corner to trim a shorter clip. Rotate your video using the Rotate buttons in the Photo Tray. Click Export Clip to output a newly trimmed or rotated video.
- Use the Take Snapshot button to capture a single frame of the video.
- Use the Play full screen button
in the lower-right corner to watch the large version. Or use the zoom slider to adjust the size of the video in the Picasa editing window. - Use the . and , keys on your keyboard to step the video frame-by-frame.
Capture your screen
Instantly take and import your screen captures and webcam captures into Picasa 3.
Screen captures
Press PrtScn to capture a shot of your entire screen. Ctrl+PrtScn will capture the highlighted window. These images will be placed in the 'Screen captures' folder.
Webcam capture
This is webcam importing made simple: Capture video or stills from within Picasa 3, and import them in the same instant. Make sure your webcam is operational, and then click the Webcam Capture button 
on the top button bar. The Capture tool will let you take and import video and stills.
Add text or watermarks to your photos
You can easily personalize your photos using the Watermark and Text tools.
Watermarks
Help protect your images by stamping a watermark on all images that you export or upload. The watermark signature will be placed in the lower right-hand corner.
Text
Use the Text tool to add text quickly and easily to your photographs; you can even print the result. You can edit the style, size, color, and alignment of the text, as well as drag it to your desired location on the photo.
When editing a photo, click the Text button 
on the 'Basic Fixes' tab to access the tool. Do you want to add the same text to multiple photos? From the main Library view, click the Edit menu and select Copy Text to copy the text you've placed on one photo. Then select Paste text to apply it to all other selected photos.
Print captions
Your captions are about to see a little more action. You can now print your captions or photo file names on or below your photos.
Control the style and color of your printed caption, in addition to the width and color of the printed photo border. After you've selected the photos you'd like to print, click the Print button in the Photo Tray. Click the Border and Text Options button 
to add borders and adjust the style and placement of your printed text. Click Apply to preview your work, and OK to accept the changes.
Upload easily to Picasa Web Albums
Use the Drop Box to hold quick uploads and upload throttling to multi-task during your upload.
Drop-box upload
The Drop Box is an online album that serves as a holding pen for your quick uploads. Click the Upload to your Web Albums DropBox button 
located above your photo on the 'Edit Photo' screen to upload a single picture directly to your Picasa Web Albums Drop Box.
Upload throttling
You can choose to have Picasa 3 reserve some of your Internet bandwidth for surfing the Web while you're doing large uploads to Picasa Web Albums. During your upload, the dialog box will have an option labeled 'Don't eat all my bandwidth.' Just select this checkbox, and then continue multi-tasking.
Control your Picasa Web Albums settings
If you have an online album in Picasa Web Albums, you can now control the online settings through the corresponding folder or album in Picasa 3.
There are a few different controls located in the drop-down menu 
to the right of the Share button in the folder or album header:
- Adjust the privacy of your online album.
- Change the online image size.
- Delete an online album.
- Sync your edits to your online album. You can also choose to apply 'Sync to Web' to starred photos only.
- Use 'Refresh Online Status' to pull your captions, tags, and geotags that you've added in Picasa Web Albums down to your photos in Picasa.
Troubleshooting
- The button's only available for folders or albums that have been uploaded to Picasa Web Albums.
- You must be signed in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums. You can sign in by clicking Sign in to Web Albums in the upper-right corner of Picasa 3.
- You will only be able to adjust the online image size if you have enabled 'Sync to Web.'
Manage folders on your computer
It's now possible to move entire folders around on your hard drive from within Picasa 3.From the folder list, right-click the folder you'd like to move, and select Move folder. Choose your desired destination or create a new folder altogether.
Get more information about your photos
We've added new icons and tools to the Library view to quickly communicate useful information about your photos.
Magnify your images
Magnify your photos for a closer inspection when browsing your library. You can find the Loupe tool 
next to the thumbnail size slider at the lower-right corner of the main Library view. When you click the Loupe tool, a round magnifying glass will appear. Hold down the mouse button and drag it to a photo you'd like to take a closer look at. When you're done, release the mouse button and the Loupe will disappear.
See EXIF information
You can now view the EXIF information for your RAW files in Picasa 3. While editing a photo, click the EXIF button 
at the lower-right of the screen. You can also right-click any photo and select Properties.
New icons
Here is an explanation of the most common icons:
The swirling circular arrows adorn the photos for which you've enabled 'Sync to Web.'
The star denotes images that you've starred as a favorite.
The crosshair identifies the photos that you've geo-tagged in Google Earth.
The upward green arrow indicates that you've uploaded a photo to Picasa Web Albums, but that 'Sync to Web' isn't enabled. This allows you to easily keep track of which photos you've placed in your online albums.
The red suppress arrow points down to indicate that you've manually blocked the photo from being uploaded. When the red suppress arrow is present, 'Sync to Web' will not automatically re-upload the image in question. 
The little film frame is placed on all of your videos.
Troubleshooting
- These icons are not actually applied to your photos. They're just available in your Picasa 3 library to provide you with at-a-glance updates on the status of your image.
- To manually suppress a photo from being uploaded, you can right-click the image in Picasa 3, and select Block from Uploading.
- It's not possible to turn off these adorning icons.
So we can see another one world class software, and for free!!! Cool :))
This free drawing software is called "Sketchup" and we get it for free by nice people from Google. This software have a big differences from other drawing software packages. This one deals in the third dimension, or 3D. We found that program not long time ago, you would not believe, but Google has bought it and at the moment sells it for free – (hurey!) We suppose this software is really good - and if you are interested to study perspective, or keen on architectural and technical drawings we should really strongly recommend this program! I have made much experiments with this free drawing software and possibilities impresses. Looks like to design a sweethome for yourself is not a problem at all! If 3d and perspective sounds interesting to you go check it out at http://sketchup.google.com.
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