Google offering Picasa for Free

[chnsawalex]

I would like to add that red eye reduction in Picasa really sucks. For that matter I didn't like any of the editing functions in it. The free version of Photoshop album is so much better in terms of editing out red eye.

 

[S13SilviaK]

Originally posted by: HostVisions
If you like iPhoto you'll like this. My wife enjoys it.

Good to know, I've been looking for something as easy as iPhoto to recc. to family.

 

[bickle]

Originally posted by: kaborka
Exchange with their tech support:
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Thank you for contacting Picasa Customer Support. Picasa will not run in a Windows
account that does not have administrator rights. There is currently no work around.

Wow, that's an insane design decision.

 

[torrid]

Since it seems this thread is being used to also help research, I've noticed one strange thing. When editing a photo (red-eye, rotation, crop), Picasa isn't actually modifying your photo. Seems OK - simply export an album to a directory for uploading to the web to share. However, I noticed that after rotating an image, exporting results in a file size approximately 1/4 of the original. So I'm assuming you would not be able to order as large a print at, say, Shutterfly (at least if you want a quality print) because Picasa has reduced the quality of your photo.

 

[ttown]

I dunno if anyone is interested... but I just ran into this thing here called PRECLICK

have not installed it, so I know nothing about it -- if anyone else has knowlege of it, please share.

(I discovered it while visiting www.iomega-activedisk.com -- it's active-disk compatible for all you active-diskers.)

 

[Aharami]

meh i dont like this. it messed up some of my albums

 

[Axoliien]

I'll try it!