Google and Picasa

I've heart that Picasa isn't that bad, but it's somewhat limited, too. Might consider switching to Photoshop Elements.
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Lynn

What are you wanting your photo program to do? Just managing photos, or also editing and/or photo-shopping?

"gimp" is free and comparable to photo shop in many aspects

i have an OLD version of Picassa, its on my PC, NOT the cloud, my pix do not go anywhere unless I upload them to 'photobucket'

Gimp For windows might work. It is photoshop "like" especially if your looking for editing etc. What are you looking for it to do?
Also , Why Free? If your leaving Google for the advertising and privacy issues ( My assumption) I think you'll find nothing is "free" Free programs have a cost in giving up something like ads privacy etc. Pay for a program and be"free" of the intrusion.

Take a look at PhotoScape and see if that meets your needs. Its free, no ads, good program.

Just minor touch ups nothing sophisticated.

I had the earlier version of Picasa and really liked it but it went away when I uninstalled Google+update I don't care about photo sharing or cloud storage.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

I don't know about using GIMP with windows, but I use it with Linux and it is totally free with no ads or other hoops to jump through.

I use Picasa without going to Google, to manage a 30,000-40,000 images from other people. I don't use the editor, so can't speak for it.

I used Photoshop Elements, versions 8 through 10, for managing my own photographs, and for running my scanner. But Elements started choking when I got up to about 30,000 images per library (kept several) and I wanted the full RAW processing functionality of Camera RAW, so I switched my own work over to Lightroom, though I will occasionally pop something into the Elements editor.

But you wanted "free" and Adobe's photo management and editing programs are not free of charge, though I find $100-150 quite reasonable for what I get.

I am familiar with GIMP. If image processing is what you want, GIMP is the most functional free tool. If cataloging is what you want, and you are working in Windows, then Picasa is the best cataloging tool. I have used a couple of the Linux photo managers (F-Spot and Shotwell) but that just pushed some of my work back to Window and Picasa.

For simple edits & re-sizing try Irfan . Much simpler than Photo Shop but can do a wide range of edits. Windows only application very small download.

ncscz wrote:
For simple edits & re-sizing try Irfan . Much simpler than Photo Shop but can do a wide range of edits. Windows only application very small download.

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