Picasa

[Dazzla Veteran]

I wanted to stick it in here because it's especially for digital cameras :p I remember downloading this a while back so I can make a theme from the interface :rolleyes: but now I've actually got a digital camera Spyder told me to grab it. This piece of software is so damn good :blink: I love it, I haven't found a flaw in it yet.

I love the orginization of it all, it's very iPhoto, right down to the way you can zoom into and out of the thumbnails with the slider at the bottom and the albums down the left hand pane. The search function is absolutely instant, iTunes style thanks to the database which stores all the photo information:

There's a cool slideshow feature, with all the pictures fading in and out of one another, it'd be cool to be able to export a slideshow as a screensaver :woot:

Another extension of the slideshow feature is the Timeline, very swish and as wel all know, we all love eye candy :yes: The interface is full of little subtle fades and animations which just adds to the goodness! It can all be turned off but why would you? :shifty:

Here's the editing pane, as you can see it's pretty similar to iPhoto :happy: but I'm not complaining in the slightest :rofl:

And here's a screenie of the print dialog, very cool and is pretty good at allowing you to manipulate the layout and format of prints. It's come in real handy so far :cool:

And lastly the import dialog, I've got Picasa to automatically import my photos and it organises them real nicely in subfolders as well, named to match the album. The X on the thumbnail means I've already imported it so I'm only grabbing new images every time, another handy little feature:

Sooooo, everyone with a digital camera, I demand you download this software :| it's ranking up there with one of my favorite pieces of software ever :woot:

[Keldyn]

Geez. :| This software is awesome. Thanks for the heads up!

[Ravager]

My dad will DEFINITELY enjoy this.

Thanks. :)

[SOOPAH256]

My dad will DEFINITELY enjoy this.

Thanks. :)

holy crap

this software looks awesome!

i too want to show my dad, but he's currently using iPhoto on his 12"

what's your opinion between iPhoto and Picasa?

anyway, i shall download it for myself to use anyway!

thanks for the info Dazzla

nicely posted too, btw! ;)

[mattmatik]

I got this right when I got my PowerShot S400. Fantastic peice of software, and as Dazzla said, it's just about a 'must-have' for digital camera users. Picasa, along with Photoshop CS/Paint Shop Pro 8 is all I'll ever need.

Good looking out Dazzla :)

[Dazzla Veteran]

I've only had an old version of iPhoto and it was pretty good, although slow. But I can't remember liking it as much as this, it's just such a cool piece of software. I've been sorting into albums, adding keywords and it's all nicely organised. Another cool thing is any adjustments you make to the photos in Picasa will always be remembered and always made to a copy. So you could crop and enhance a photo, come back a week later and just press undo and it'll resort back to normal, so goddamn cool.

[aaron901]

awesome!!! this thing is as good as iPhoto if not better!! love the email feature, so fast and efficient! :)

i accidentally deleted some pictures from disk instead of removing from picasa, how can i get 'em back?

and one thing i hatre is that it doesn't remember windows size. :(

[dreamsINdigital]

Awesome program! A must have! :woot:

[Schmoove]

Yeah it is great isn't it :)

I've been using it for at least a year and it is my favorite tool to manage my digital camera shots.

I use it along with ACDSee (v5), ACDSee for fast viewing of individual images and Picasa for photo management.

Picasa does lack a couple of features that would be usable, but it is a very young application with a lot of potential. Version 2.0 should be out before the summer and I am really looking forward to it.

5 star program if you ask me.

[davemania]

Is this program free ?

[Keito]

No it's like 15 USD

[.KICK]

Wow, thanks for the heads up (Y)

[Keito]

Welll I thought it was free, so I'm kinda bummed >_<

[yanman]

I used to use this program. Didn't really like it for some reason. But I'll give it another shot, thanks for the reminder.

[BroChaos Veteran]

this is damn nice....best program i've used.

i used to just organize everything myself manually with windows, but i'm gonna use this now.