Free photo editor/manager

[Yves Alarie]

The newer version (2.0) of Picasa is available at:
www.picasa.com

It is free. It does a nice job of basic photo editing and provides a nice
time line approach to find your photos.

 

[Paul Ballou]

And the program leaves unnecessary files all over your computer in every
folder you have images.

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Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

 

[Yves Alarie]

The program does not leave unnecessary files on your computer.

For those who are interested in Picasa:

The program makes one file in each photo folder, after you edit the first
photo file. The file name will be picasa.ini and it can be viewed if the
folder option is set to view hidden file. You can open it and see how Picasa
is saving your edited changes.
The nice thing about this added file (extremely small size) is that it
contains all the changes made to all the photos in the folder. Picasa does
NOT change original files as you edit them, it only codes the changes made
for each photo and stores the changes in the picasa.ini file. So when
original photo files are opened with Picasa (after editing with Picasa), the
edited photos are seen with all the editing and because everything is coded
every change made can be undone, one by one.
This is great for printing at home. After the editing is done, just print.
No need to save the edited file because when you open it again in Picasa you
get the edited file back. A lot easier than having to save edited files. And
if you want to save the edited file you can, hit save copy and the edited
file is added to the folder, same name as the original file, with 1 added at
the end. All done automatically.

 

[Paul Ballou]

You can't prove it by me that they are necessary. No other program I have
used that is similar leaves files in image folders so why should picasa be
any different therefore the files are unnecessary as far as I'm concerned.

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control.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| You can't prove it by me that they are necessary. No other program I have
| used that is similar leaves files in image folders so why should picasa be
| any different therefore the files are unnecessary as far as I'm concerned.
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Unless I'm mistaken the files in question, which seem to be consistently
sized at < 100 bytes, are used when Picasa's monitoring function is turned
on. This is background function that monitors the hard drive for new
additions of image files, which Picasa then adds to its archives
automatically. Your whining about 80-byte files which are not in any way
harmful or obtrusive is misguided. If you don't like Picasa, don't use it.
But you shouldn't badmouth it when your only criterion for criticism is
based on your own neurotic tendencies.

 

[Yves Alarie]

First it does not leave files in image folders. It make a single file in
each image folder. This single file contains all changes made to all photos
in the folder.
Second, no other editing software does it this way,you are correct.
Here is what you must do with other software.
1. You make a copy of your original file, never edit the original.
2. You edit the copy and you save it as an intermediate file because you may
want to edit further.
3. You now have three huge files in your folder.