Google and Picasa
I have been using Picasa but want to get away from Google anyone have suggestions for another free photo program?
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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.
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.
