It had become suddenly overwhelming time wise and also expense because of post processing to take it to the next level. All too many people who had fallen in love with photography still lost interest. Yes, of course there are other programs out there, many of them to choose from. You could then spend time shooting with your DSLR, capturing the scene, studying photography, making your own art worthy of producing prints to decorate your home, to share in so many ways. Some “graduated” to Google’s Nik, paid for it. Google got so many people interested in real photography, interested in doing some post processing without a steep learning curve. It included so many different things all in one program. Google lost friends when it stopped supporting Picasa. And there's not even a keyboard stroke for the command - it has to be the right-click thing. So with every folder I scroll through, I have to right-click and "Refresh Thumbnails." This brings the correct thumbnail into place fairly quickly, but it's a hassle. The latest thing that annoys me is the fact that, as I scroll down through my folders (I have over three thousand folders), the thumbnails are almost never correct. I am using it everyday, but it seems to lose something every couple of months. I expect, like me, many of you are still using it. Now () we are about three years into the loss of Picasa support. They really screwed me by discontinuing it. I teach photography and have used Picasa for years in my classes. Please post here if you find a Picasa like replacement.) I just wish DxO would’ve also picked up Picasa! (And thanks so much for such a prompt response. (Google left it free to download after announcing the program was dropped.) Fortunately DxO picked it up and will continue to support and develop it. (Grrr.) And it falters a lot with wrong thumbnails when shuffling through the directories or the faces.Īnother popular Google product was discontinued only months after some spent hundreds to purchase the popular Nik. It does that weird rotation on pictures all the times. It no longer easily remembers which images are already incorporated into its database when I copy from my camera's SD disks. I am worrying that my Picasa is about to give up its ghost, too. Everything i have seen does *some* of what Picasa does, but not all, and never as elegantly. I have searched around and still have not found a good alternative. I worry as much as I did two years ago about what I can do when my copy dies, or I change computers. What did you use to replace Picasa as an organizer and basic editor? It was great once upon a time.Ĭarol, I am *still* using Picasa the way I have for years. Now I’ve learned I can’t depend on their products for the long term. Not fond of Photos or Google Drive either. I’d happily paid a monthly fee to keep Picasa if Google continued to support and develop it. but still miss Picasa for the simplicity, particularly for organizing and finding older files. Now I’ve been using the monthly subscription to Photoshop/Lightroom. I also had PaintShop Pro, Photoshop Elements. I miss the simplicity of Picasa for organizing and some quick edits. I wonder if your "always" has been changed somehow to "once." When I installed a new hard drive a while back, mine was not importing until I found the setting to direct it to "always" scan that folder. Anyone else having this problem or how to fix it back to automatically the picasa getting them. My picasa on my desktop has stop acquiring any new photos I put in files. Don't know what to do.ĭo you know what the May changes will be?įour months in, has anything changed for anyone? I don't use their Web Albums, so I can't get my photos to Google Photo. Trying to know how to do the same things that actually I do with Picasa. But I'm on the understanding it will be done sometime in March. I do use Picasa allot for editing quick and easy. I would like to know something to use also. So, what are the alternatives for stand-alone, simple photo organisers? But I can get by without that editing - I mostly use Paint Shot Pro for that and probably won't miss Picasa's tools. I also like its simple editing powers too. Primarily I like Picasa's incredibly simple organisational powers. So I must start thinking about alternatives. Until my OS changes, or until I have a crash and need to download a new copy of Picasa. Presumably my desktop version will continue to work, at least for some time. Today,, Google announced it will no longer support Picasa after 16 March, four weeks hence. (Google Photos as a back up is just plain stupid, to my mind. I have used its on-line stuff less I have simply been confused by the on-line Picasa stuff for a few years now, though the desktop programme still does what I need it to do. Like many users of Picasa, I have been a big fan of it as a desktop programme.
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