Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos , plus an integrated photo-sharing website , originally created by a company named Lifescape [ 2 ] (which at that time may have resided at Idealab ) in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. [ 3 ] "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso , the phrase mi casa (Spanish for "my house") and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from its original author and began offering it as freeware . [ 3 ]
