Before Picasa, I used a program called Fireworks – generally in the same class as Photoshop. Some areas have now become a bit complex, but it’s still pretty darned easy, especially compared to the full-featured image editors like Photoshop or GIMP. Over the years, Google has added more and more features. When we started teaching Picasa about 7 years ago, it was drop-dead easy. The free price certainly has something to do with that, but Picasa also gives you the greatest capability for the least effort. Why we Still Like Picasa the BestĪs you can see from the crowd of over 700 people in one of our Picasa Seminars for FMCA, Picasa is very popular. On Windows computers, the gold standard photo editing program is Adobe Photoshop ($700!) or Photoshop Elements ($99.) There are also several free programs, including Microsoft’s offering – Windows Live Photo Gallery, and a full featured, Photoshop workalike called GIMP. Many people with Macintosh computers are very happy with iPhoto which comes preinstalled on their Macs – even though Picasa does have a fully compatible Macintosh version. We teach several seminars on it, produced over 60 tutorial videos, have a website dedicated to Picasa, and wrote a book on it! But, we know it’s not the only game in town. It’s a free program that you download to your computer from Google. At Geeks on Tour, we’ve been evangelists for Picasa over 7 years now.
If you put your pictures onto your computer, which we think you should, then you have lots of choices for what software to use for managing and editing them.
For RVers, like us, you can quickly rack up thousands of pictures! I’ve been known to take over 100 pictures in any given day when we’re traveling thru beautiful countryside. You can see right away if you captured the image you wanted, and take more shots if you didn’t. By Chris Guld, Aren’t digital cameras great?! Just snap away to your heart’s content, no worries about wasting film, or costing more money, or taking up more space.
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