Does anyone here use the photo editor named Picasa 2 from google. I
dont know if I'm doing something wrong or what but when I edit a photo
in Picas it only stay edited in Picasa. When I open my other photo
editor it show the pic unedited. Is thier something I'm doing wrong in
Picasa
It's a simple image collection manager, useful if you have a big amount
of images all over your hd (you can import images from scanner, digital
photo, hd).
It hasn't an "Explorer look": it shows images regardless of their
harddisk position.
It handles images (.jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .psd, .tif), movies (.avi,
..mpg, .wmv, .asf, .mov (QuickTime)) and RAW format of Canon, Nikon,
Kodak, Minolta e Pentax.
You can assign labels (to create virtual collections, so you can have a
virtual folder containg images with a common thing e.g. your partner),
captions for single photo (which goes in IPT comment information, that
you can read by other viewer, as IrfanView) and make easy incremental
search on these (e.g. now, if I write "snow", Picasa shows all my winter
photo); you can limit the time period by a slide.
Yes, at first it needs time to write informations if you have already a
big collection.
You can also change resolution (to save in a directory or also
automatically when sending images by email), printing of multiple images
on one page, automatic scan & update of your image directory, simple
multiple renaming...
I haven't used yet some features like backup of images collection (it
creates an incremental backup set and you can also burn it directly from
Picasa), creation of gift CD (burn images on CD, eventually changing
resolution, also with a slideshow program) or screensaver creation.
IT ISN'T AN EDITOR: you can rotate, change colors, brightness,...but
simply Picasa remember what you did and apply everytime these changes,
leaving untouched the photo (you have to Export it, to create a copy of
the image with changes applied...but for this, it's better to use an
editor which is more powerful).
IMHO it isn't slow (thumbnail creation is slower with many other
programs) and it has all basic functions; with Google behind, I suppose
it will not become abandonware.
IMHO Picasa is a good program to handle digital photo collections for
not expert users (which could find too much complex more powerful
programs) so they can import, index, print send (with needed changes)
and backup photos with a simple (and IMHO nice) interface.
If you search an editor or a very powerful viewer, look for another
program.
Simon
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