Picasa

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Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.

Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

http://picasa.google.com/

[andsome]

I like the program with one exception. When I first installed it, it loaded a copy of every single photo on my computer. This meant that I had another copy of all the originals on my C drive, and yet another copy of all my backed up photos on my D drive, and also all photos from everywhere on the computer. I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it disallowing this feature. If I want to edit a photo I just import it, do what i want with it, save it and then remove it from Picassa. I agree with Pat that it is an excellent program otherwise.

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It is also great and very easy to publish and share your photos / albums with friends and family.

[D4\/!d]

I like the program with one exception. When I first installed it, it loaded a copy of every single photo on my computer. This meant that I had another copy of all the originals on my C drive, and yet another copy of all my backed up photos on my D drive, and also all photos from everywhere on the computer. I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it disallowing this feature. If I want to edit a photo I just import it, do what i want with it, save it and then remove it from Picassa. I agree with Pat that it is an excellent program otherwise.

Thanks for that tip Ands.

Do you still use Picasa, or have you found another friendly freebie program you prefer.

I am just starting with a nice new camera and am looking out for what to use.

[Tankus]

I've been using it before google took it over ...To resolve andsomes problem just link Picassa to your "My Pictures " folder , and it will just ignore everything outside this folder ... Its excellent for me as "my pictures" folder is now close to 250gb in size ....Also if you do this , you can use Picassa to import, and it will store them too ... Its worth doing as you can then add the tags when you import , and it will flag up copies if the photo has already been imported before (useful if you have a lot of datacards)

My main use is tagging and indexing , plus , the fairly recent facial recognition option has been a useful bonus ...

I usually edit in cannon digital professional or gimp if I need layering ,...

but picassa has been doing RAW for some time ,and its a nice and easy quick edit if I'm feeling lazy!

An excellent freebie

[catgate]

I like the program with one exception. When I first installed it, it loaded a copy of every single photo on my computer. This meant that I had another copy of all the originals on my C drive, and yet another copy of all my backed up photos on my D drive, and also all photos from everywhere on the computer. I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it disallowing this feature. If I want to edit a photo I just import it, do what i want with it, save it and then remove it from Picassa. I agree with Pat that it is an excellent program otherwise.

Thanks for that tip Ands.

Do you still use Picasa, or have you found another friendly freebie program you prefer.

I am just starting with a nice new camera and am looking out for what to use.

I may well be wrong, but here is what I concluded about the above.

I put Picasa on my machine a few years ago when I was on W95 and originally thought the same. But I concluded that what it did was to simply put a file in each directory and into that file put a link to each of the picture files in that directory. This meant that it then had a FAT of all the pictures on the computer.

I eventually wiped it as it seemed to want to take over totally and did not appear to offer anything better than what I was doing at the time.

[Tankus]

If its been a long time since you used it cats , its well worth another look ....... googles done a good job with it

[catgate]

If its been a long time since you used it cats , its well worth another look ....... googles done a good job with it

I will have a look. It certainly needed someone doing something to it when I had it previously. It seemed to want to take over.

[andsome]

I've been using it before google took it over ...To resolve andsomes problem just link Picassa to your "My Pictures " folder , and it will just ignore everything outside this folder ... Its excellent for me as "my pictures" folder is now close to 250gb in size ....Also if you do this , you can use Picassa to import, and it will store them too ... Its worth doing as you can then add the tags when you import , and it will flag up copies if the photo has already been imported before (useful if you have a lot of datacards)

My main use is tagging and indexing , plus , the fairly recent facial recognition option has been a useful bonus ...

I usually edit in cannon digital professional or gimp if I need layering ,...

but picassa has been doing RAW for some time ,and its a nice and easy quick edit if I'm feeling lazy!

An excellent freebie

Thanks, but as I said a reinstall solved things. I only use it for cropping etc, and then delete the photo's from Picasa, after saving the result elsewhere.

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Picasa 3.8 Build 117.43 - April 22, 2011

• Fixed importing from scanners.
  
• Fixed Backup and Restore creating duplicate .ini files.
  

Download: http://picasa.google.com/

Release Notes http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=release_notes.cs&from=53209

Note: Picasa 3.8 is no longer supported on Windows 2000.