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So this is pretty much a program like Adobe Photoshop Album and JASC Paint Shop Photo Album? I think Adobe gives away their starter version of Album 2.0, which is supposed to be pretty cool.

I don't remember hearing much about Picasa before. Odd. But I pretty much just use Paint Shop Pro 7 and a folder hierarchy that makes photos easy to find instead of depending on an index app like those mentioned above.

But free software is way cool. Nothing wrong with free goodies. (Y)

Thank you google my ass..... they just bought it, they never developed it.

Thank you Lifescape Inc.

Google made it FREE and I would have never used it before because it wasn't. I'll give Lifescape credit for making a good product but part of the reason it is great is because of the Hello (Blogger) support.

Edited by Jstphish

I downloaded it yesterday when I saw a link on the google frontpage.

It is very high quality software and performs GREAT. But it is lacking some features to help it completely replace the Windows XP Picture Viewer.

For example it has no 'image zoom' feature. I think that is a very important feature for ANY image viewer/organizer.

For viewing photos, it is very good. The "Media detector" isn't all that much of a resource hog, and it's fast!

Two things I'm missing:

- The ability to drag an image to another application (photoshop)

- Zoom feature

- Brightness/saturation

Other than that, the "auto-enhance" feature as well as the red-eye remover works GREAT. I will recommend this to all my friends with a digital camera. ;)

ACDSee 6 still blows away Picasa. I guess we'll have to wait for version 2.0.

I tried ACDSee years back but it had trouble with graphics headers for some formats so I used other software. I should probably give it another shot. But Paint Shop Pro has a Browse feature and helps make image management pretty easy since you can make, drag and drop folders as you browse to help organize things the way you want.

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