[REQUEST] Picasa replacement

[Colin]

Looking for a local program like Picasa that will organize pictures and do minor edits (crop, red eye etc) as many of my seniors want the functionality of Picasa and Im happy to put the older version on but was wondering if there is something similar that is still supported?

Thanks!

 

[red12049]

Irfanview?

Rick

 

[GTP]

Paint.net?

 

[Moltuae]

Alternativeto.net is a good resource for finding more alternatives: http://alternativeto.net/software/picasa/

Looking briefly down the list, FastStone Image Viewer looks like a close alternative (though I haven't tried it myself).

 

[Colin]

that faststone looks very promising! thanks!

 

[sapphirescales]

The Windows 10 Photo app? Otherwise I always recommend FastStone for older systems.

 

[Colin]

Looking for something more like Picasa, so far that FastStone looks like my best bet.!

 

[mraikes]

One of the big advantages of Picasa is that by default it's not dependent on where picture files are held - it finds them everywhere, sorts them nicely, and the user doesn't need to worry much about which folder(s) they're stored in. With many users' chaotic filing procedures this is a big plus.

I've been fiddling around with FastStone and can't find any way to get the same kind of behaviour; otherwise it looks pretty good. Am I missing something?

That's also one of the most confusing things about Picasa. Too many end users think their pictures are "in Picasa" and don't realize/know where the pictures really are. Trying to explain that pictures aren't "in Picasa" and how Picasa works is more frustrating than it ought to be in 2017.

I swear, as time goes by, people are getting dumber about how their computers and other devices work - not smarter. But I guess that's a topic for an entirely new thread.

 

[glennd]

That's also one of the most confusing things about Picasa. Too many end users think their pictures are "in Picasa" and don't realize/know where the pictures really are. Trying to explain that pictures aren't "in Picasa" and how Picasa works is more frustrating than it ought to be in 2017.

I swear, as time goes by, people are getting dumber about how their computers and other devices work - not smarter. But I guess that's a topic for an entirely new thread.

concur. I had to tell a customer a few weeks ago that Picassa is defunct and she was devastated that all her photos were gone. When I showed her how to click on My Pictures with nice thumbnails and how to double click on a photo to view it full size, she was happy again. She decided that was all she needed to look at her photos.

 

[Colin]

I agree that client tend to think pictures are stored in the program, but a quick "My Picture" Hop and they are amazed that I can view pictures outside of Picasa! (as long as they save the damn picture there!)
I want somthing that has the basic editing features of Picasa, easy red eye removal, crop that sort of thing, it would benice to organize the photos but really people do need to learn how to do that outside of a program so they know where thier data is....

FastStone is nice But as mraikes points out that it does not allow you to add multiple folder to view picutres in so you need to know where that picture is stored before it will let you "see" or "edit" it.

 

[Archon Prime]

http://www.studioline.net/EN/products/overview-photo-basic/default.htm

I set this up for a client recently. Just finished moving all photos to her external drive and set this up to point at them all. Works nice. it's free, need to register for a key and only has it's own product pop ups periodically but it's a nice setup for the most part.