Google Picasa

Downloading it now. I’ve been searching for a good free photo organization tool that is easy to use and I think I found it.

It doesn’t move any pictures around, it scans your folders and keeps them where they are found.

Some features I am looking forward to are:

– Creating albums of similar photos or photos you would like to group, without moving them.

– Sharing photos to Google+ where you can share with people who are not on Google+ without making them register.

– Create movies of photos with music and post them to YouTube

– $2.49/month online syncing and storage

So, anyone else try using Picasa?

The first feature is what I really look forward to. I group all my photos now by folders with the date the pictures were taken. Now I can put all my fishing pictures by year in an album or maybe make a video of it.

Thanks for bringing this freeware back up

I had it on my last machine 3 years ago now. I liked it then but, seemed to have forgotten about it until now.

It was a go to program in the past.

Your welcome. The problem for me is i have duplicate photos on a external drive i was using as my backup. Now i have to make sure to move any missing ones to the backup and just use my external with Picasa. That way I won’t sync duplicates to the web and pay for space on duplicate images.

I’m having the same issue with my backups in general! Norton, Windows and my Seagate seem to be in a power struggle.

I use it a lot. it has some good basic editing feature and the face recognition is kind of fun as well.

Been using it for about 4yrs and love it. Makes things simple and organized.

Yep, I have used it for years. Great tool.

Forgot I have a picasa acct.. haven’t used it in a while. For video I use windows dvd maker I’m not computer savvy..I like simple.

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I’m having the same issue with my backups in general! Norton, Windows and my Seagate seem to be in a power struggle.

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When I first got my Seagate External Flash drive, I tried using their back up software. It put everything on the disk in weird structures. All I want it to replicate the file and folder structure from my computer to the external drive and update and delete files as needed to mirror my hard drive.

I wish I could just dump my pictures onto the external and have it just save files that don’t exist. THe problem is an old work computer I had was a Mac, so I was using iPhoto which used a different naming convention. So I have been trying to manage my files manually by moving them to the external.

So yippee, I get to compare the drives which is grueling, and back up whatever. Then I can just sync Picasa with the external drive.

Going forward I will just use my Desktop naming convention which will make things easier.

I did see that Picasa can find duplicates for you. That is a cool feature.

used to use it a lot on dark trail cam pics, you could lighten up a lot of the nite pics and see what was actually there, I think that it was actually a picasa 2 download that we used.

I have Canon camera and use their Gateway. Two very nice features: Password protected and invitees can download full MB size pics.

It is free if you register your camera and you get 10GB of storage for free.

I like free

Just a heads up. I don’t think that Picasa should be used as a backup, unless other people say otherwise. It seems geared more toward organizing and sharing online. I am not sure if your harddrive fried one day that you could get your images back from the online albums easily. I think I need to consider another option for that, but still the software is nice for organizing your photos.