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Picasa 2.0 Released, Reviewed
firebirdy writes "Google's Picasa 2.0 was announced yesterday (with support for RAW, Gmail integration, and uploading to popular photo services, among other things) and PC Magazine is ready with a review. Four and a half stars, and the only drawback found by PC Magazine folks was the lack of support for handheld devices."
Mi casa, Picasa...
Picture management is about all I use windows for these days and I have been through every last source forge solution and they all suck compared to picassa.
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+
Picasa 2 is available in English only.
I used picasa 1 extensively and it was mainly a picture cataloging program - which it handled most excelently. Picasa 2 has all of those great features, plus picture touch-up features. For photo management, I give it 5 stars.
http://www.picasa.com/
Yes, I know it's comparing Windows vs. Mac.
I've always been a bit unsure how Picasa fits into Google's philosophy. I mean, they're all about searching, locating relevant things, organisation of data etc, right? Now I think Picasa is a decent piece of software - although the first version was a tad slow and occasionally unstable, I'm willing to give it a second try. But in terms of organisation of data, it doesn't really offer much. You can't put pictures into more than one group, for example.
Surely the best thing would be actual image search. In other words, I give the program a picture of my face and say 'find all the other pictures with this face'. That's an extreme example and would be incredibly complex, of course, but some kind of actual picture searching capability would be amazingly useful.
Like I say, this isn't an anti-Picasa troll because it's a decent piece of software, but it doesn't seem to be offering anything amazingly new.
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I love this software. I have thousands of digital photographs on my hard drive, and trying to find a picture is insanly difficult. Picasa made things MUCH easier, and Picasa 2 is looking to be even better.
It is:
:)
1) Easy to use
2) Extremely fast (even when applying effects)
3) Powerful
Very rarely does a program combine all three of those and not feel like a bloat piece of junk. Picasa does it all.
It can easily print photos or you can upload/order prints online.
You can even export photos to a web page (even save as XML format!).
It has a cool feature called "I'm Feeling Lucky" (get the Google reference) that automatically adjusts everything from color to contrast to redeye. It has worked virtually flawless for me so far on a select number of photos that I have had a chance to play along with and if there is an issue, the undo takes a second (if that) to return to the original.
Simply amazing. Best part, it is free
The Effects tools are great. Nice easy ways to fix brightness, highlights, shadows etc. This will fix most problems people have with photos. One wicked cool tool is the Filtered B&W. And you thought desaturate was how to make B&W pics...
Problems. The Sharpeness tool is lacking and things become corse and grainy really quick. Almost all digital cameras benefit from some sharpenging, but here its below average and needs work. The only other glaring fault is the red eye tool zooms out and makes it harder to select eyes, not easier. It does work well though so its not all bad. I just wish it was easier to select people's eyes.
Overall though a really nice consumer photo organizer and light editor app. Hell for $40 it would be a nice app. I'm impressed that they addressed some of the shortcomings from the old version and kept it free and of course Slick feeling and looking. No need to be jealous of IPhoto anymore. Nice job Google.
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When I restart Picasa it asks me fo a serial number and tells me something abaut a 15 days trial period.
I didn't find any note at http://www.picasa.com that made me think I need to pay for it... a bit strange, I think.
To bad, that I allready replaced the older (free?) version.
geKow
I would think that with all of the features they put in there they could throw in an HTML gallery creator. I have a ton of pics of my kids that I put on the web via some other software rather painstakingly, but if Picasa did this it would make things easier...a simple template-able multi-page gallery with FTP "one-click" publishing....(not "proprietary-blogger publishing")
I have grown quite spoiled by Picasa's export-to-web feature over the past couple of years. It's not perfect, but I can download pics from the camera, organize them, export them in a web-friendly format (thumbnails, navigation, etc.), and ftp the batch to my site for the grandparents to see, all in about 5 minutes. Sure beats the heck out of building the html myself.
My main gripe has been the disconnect between the album organization and actual filesystem structure, as it makes backups tricky. Sounds like the new export features should have this covered.
Thanks, Google!
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
I used to be a huge fan of iPhoto but I found as my collection grew, I outgrew iPhoto. Picase stepped in for me exactly when I needed it. Picasa1 needed some work with stability. I picked up 2 as soon as it became available and have found myself completely impressed and satisfied with Picasa2 so far. The interface is easy to understand and the enhancement tools rival those in for-pay software like Photoshop Elements. It may even replace GIMP 2.2 for simple tasks on my laptop. Google seems to have the same ethic of Apple in the "make it work" category. Add in the Blogger and Hello integration and you have a superior and free for now piece of software. If only Digikam can catch up.
-- As it was eXtraheavy in the beginning, is now and forever shall be
Click on the export button. It is all in there, even the ability to export to XML.
Picasa 1.2 made me kick Adobe Album 2.0 out, the software I was using previously to organize photos. The speed of the Picasa interface is something you have to try for yourself, it runs like a greased weasel. Adobe Album behaves like it's downloading the images as progressive jpegs from the net in comparison, you can see the gradual redraws of the image when you open the edit mode.
Now Picasa 2.0 comes along, and it is at least at easy to use and fast as 1.2. It also fixes my number one problem with these organizers, that the program's internal organization is not reflected on the disk, only in some metadata. That just doesn't cut it in real life when you're working with multiple programs. I bet Adobe will start to give away their Album software for free soon, I just don't see who would want to buy it when Picasa is simply better, faster and free.
It's like deja vu all over again.
For an example of visual search see LTU Technologies product Image Seeker. They have a demo using the 65,000 corbis royalty free images.
Image-seeker is highly scalable server-side software.
I've not used Picasa, but from the tour it seems like it is pretty similar. Some nice features of Picasa:
* Keeps pictures in place. iPhoto puts them all in one directory structure, which some people don't like. I've been using a program that lets you keep mutliple iPhoto libraries so I don't have that problem.
* Comments go into IPTC fields. Don't think iPhoto does that, but it's a good idea.
* Lets you print a poster by slitting image across multiple pages.
It is better than the current iPhoto in terms of editing tools, but about the same compared to iPhoto 5 (due out next week I think, if not already). Also, the new iPhoto supports RAW files and I think has more export options. Basically iPhoto also benefits from the good integration with other iLife apps for making slideshow DVD's and such easier and more interesting - in that respect Picasa is more stand-alone.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhusson/3253841
...but I don't have more than a couple seconds free at the moment.
The question I have is, can you export whatever structure you come up with to some easily-parseable format? This sounds like a great idea, but if they decide to charge for it down the road, or something better comes up, I don't want my data stuck in their program. Has anyone tried this out?
<xml><I><am><so><damn>Web 2.0</damn></so></am></I></xml>
it's a photo organizer with touch-up tools, not a primary image editing app.
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Hello (http://hello.com/) is really good for sharing pictures with complete idiots like your mom and dad. It automatically shrinks and recompresses the jpgs and lets you chat on the side. Great for my parents on dialup since it saves bandwidth, and if you want you can always selectively download the full image version from a few of the pics you are looking at. I havn't seen much else that is as easy and simple as Hello, but I havn't really looked for much. Email or ICQ or posting pictures on a webpage just don't cut it though.
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You don't say what software you're currently using, but I can highly recommend JAlbum, a free java-based gallery creator. It has an integrated ftp client so could do what you're after.
I don't know about one click ftp but there is a make web page option.
I want the porn on my computer to be HARD to find. That way nobody but me will find it.
I don't really want a visiting friend clicking on the wrong icon in my Start menu and having my midget bukkake collection spread out before them (neatly catalogued).
Freedom: "I won't!"
Do GIMP or Photoshop even pretend to be photo sharing tools?
Linux support is unlikely as Picasa has a long history on Windows and is targeted towards grandparents. Portability was probably not a consideration.
Mac support? Nobody is going to use this instead of iPhoto.
I'm supposed to believe this is one of the best photo editing
where did you understand Picasa to be a photo editing app?
I may be a cad, but you're a barbarian.
But I'm supposed to believe that Photoshop is one of the best web browsers ever? Please...
(Picasa is supposed to organize your photos, not edit them. Editing is just a side feature that they added in case you're too lazy to open up Gimp. So, Picasa us a crappy photo editing program, but it's pretty good at organize pictures. Good at what it's designed for, sucks at what it's not)
I tried the earlier version when Google first released this, and while it was sorta nice, I really didn't like one feature: Picasa drops a file in every directory you have that has an image file in it. Let it spider your hard drive (which is one of the cooler things about it, I thought), and suddenly every directory has a mini-database in it.
This sort of behaviour drove me nuts with a certain Windows FTP client, but at least that could be turned off. Can you tell 2.0 to use a centralized database somehow?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
I found an article that highlighted some of the hits and misses in Picasa.
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I agree mostly with the lacking of a hierarchical labeling system being a miss.
Also, I've used iPhoto a fair amount and I find Picasa a bit easier to use.
However, I'm hoping that the updated iPhoto will do better.
Right click one of your albums on the left side and then choose "Make a Webpage" no harder than that :)
Have you metaroderated recently?
I've just given a try on the software (i had installed it when 1.0 came out, but was unimpressed by then, i don't remember why).
But i used it for like 30 minutes and its amazing. I always hated having to browse folders to look for pictures, and i don't have to do it anymore. I gave a quick glimpse on the effects panel, and the red eye remover is easy and very effective.
this is a really cool software. really.
ps. no, i don't work at picasa, google, or anywhere near US at all.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could get a line graph that represents the frequency of each Google search term in real time so we could see the impact for ourselves?
-- JS (signed so I can get some bragging rights if somebody actually implements this...)
After all the years of dotcommery, did we still not learn to ask 'Why?' when a company seems to give away valuable software for free?
Are they trying to hurt Microsoft or Apple?
Are they trying to endear themselves to a potential audience?
Will they be tying in all kinds of for-pay add-ins?
Also, this brings up something that's been bothering me: how much source code has Google contributed back to the OS community? Any? The GPL is written to allow internal modifcation and use without requiring release of your modifications, but it seems this allowance is based on the belief that a piece of software used on a foreign machine can never monopolize a market segment. But what if all the applications are network-based? A company that is building an entire suite of networked apps that always run on THEIR servers effectively sidesteps the GPL's requirements of participation in a source-sharing community. Clearly Google is a more honest company than most (Motto: Don't be evil.), but it's not a non-profit. Things to consider...
Anyone know?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Google is great :) I just wish they would make Keyhole free...
Taco?
At least somebody is making software for Windows that's as good as the iLife suite. Small wonder that it's Google doing it, too.
All generalizations are bad.
I've seen comments here and elsewhere about Picasa being better than iPhoto in some or all ways. Until Picasa runs on my Mac, it's not even a contender.
You don't have to respect my bias, but at least you're aware of it.
I installed it using Plain Olde Truly Free Wine (i.e.: not xover office) and most of it works. It is better than, say, gthumb.
Two gthumbs up for that!
Mark
We call them passwords. That, and disabling the broken file security sharing and making others not be able to get to your documents.
Create a non-admin visitor/guest account for friends, leave your shit separate.
But it's google! We love google!
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Gogle really seems to be expanding into alot of different technologies recently. I'm not sure if they have a certain plan or are just trying to overall help people. Anyway, I think they are a company with good intentions. This Picasa seems like it can be very useful on top of Google's other technologies...
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Click the "Actions" button; hit the "Make a Webpage..." wizard.
FotoFlix uses alot of "desktop-like" functionality embedded in the browser. Not just IE...but FireFox, Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, ect.
I know it's web-based and you have to be online...but if you have a broadband connection then it shouldn't be an issue.
Better than Flickr - Manage, Share, Archive
See, that's the beauty of the new Picasa. You can easily password protect a collection or album, and hide it!
Excuse me, but the website masthead STILL says news for nerds... NOT "only free OSS that required 200 phd's to write and will change the world and run on every platform immaginable and will be secure and bug free". As long as the MAJORITY of computer users are using Windows based machines, I see nothing wrong with announcing a very useful product. Gives the Linux community something to shoot for since, based on other comments here, nothing similar exists in the Linsux arena.
This is Slashdot. Please refrain from making sense.
- As several people have pointed out, it's highly indiscriminate. You can tell it what folders you do and don't want it indexing, but doing this is an awkward process, and setting up anything but their defaults (i.e., basically index 'My Pictures' or index everything) will take too much doing for anyone with a heavily-populated system. It might be okay for indexing photos on your grandparents' machine, but it probably won't be okay for the stereotypical
/. reader's (Windows) computer.
- Nonstandard interface. It looks to me like they're shooting for an OSX look and feel, which is all well and good but just comes out looking goofy under Windows. The right-side scroll bar is a particularly egregious example, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the traditional, predictable Windows look and feel.
- It's an image cataloguer; it's not an image viewer, which seems a strange distinction to make, especially for an application that lets you view images. There's no 'Browse with Picasa' option for folders from Windows Explorer, and no means of associating Picasa as a viewer for image file types, so you're stuck with using the 'Picasa Explorer' (which offers no treeview, for instance, just a flat look at all your image folders) as your browser.
- I understand and appreciate that the image editor isn't meant to be very full-featured, just a basic picture tuner; but there are still some bizarre omissions, most notably the lack of any available resize option (that I could find).
I don't doubt that there are people who will find Picasa a godsend, but it does virtually nothing I want to do, and everything it does do it takes a clunky approach to. It gets in the way far too often for me to ever imagine it as a power-user app.Just trying it out now. Should make my life easier (as all things Googly do). My only qualm is that I don't see PDF thumbnails.
I have no pants and I must scream
Here's a direct download link to Picasa 2 Enjoy!
Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths....
Picasa is part of the cure to my Mac Envy
Cheers,
Adolfo
was rotating image by small angles. now that it's possible in picasa 2, I am using only picasa for all my image related activity.
I forget why, but it got dumped off my machine pretty damn quick.
So I went back to Irfanview.
So Picasa is better than Irfanview exactly how?
Answer that question or forget about it.
For those who don't know what Irfanview can do, here is a partial list of features from their site:
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Drag & drop support
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and many more
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Posting pictures of Bill ol Gates in pimp mode made sense. He's was a lonely guy!
I've been a happy user of Thumbs Plus for photo cataloguing/management, but I might want to migrate to Picasa. The trouble is, how do I migrate my existing database (keywords + comments) to Picasa?.. Anyone know the format of their database?.. I could export Thumbs Plus database in Access format, but if I can't hammer it somehow into Picasa, migrating wouldn't be an option...
Just one more step towards Google's domination of the world.
It's a shame such a promising program can't support the simplest non-ASCII characters, let alone Unicode...
I want the porn on my computer to be HARD to find. That way nobody but me will find it.
No, you want it to be easy for you to find but hard for everyone else to find. That's easy: just use an encrypted partition and don't give out the passphrase.
That said, I know someone who collects non-pornographic amputee videos, preferring videos of people with high DAK (double above knee) amputations.
Now what about the Windows-only problem?
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The GPL is written to allow internal modifcation and use without requiring release of your modifications, but it seems this allowance is based on the belief that a piece of software used on a foreign machine can never monopolize a market segment. But what if all the applications are network-based?
The GNU General Public License version 3 will provide an option, apparently letting a distributor require a user who "publicly performs" a modified program, such as by offering it as a public web service, to publish the modified source code at cost.
I tried earlier revisions and one frustration for me was it didn't support the Canon RAW (CRW) format from my Canon 10D digital SLR. Well, surprise surprise, I tired it out and it was off indexing my desktop and low and behold I see my RAW files start popping in. WOOT! It also indexed my variou movie clips and makes it easy to have'em all handy and play from in the program. For a free piece of software for Windows platform users, I gotta say, I'm very impressed so far!! My desktop will likely never go outside of Windows, maybe to OSX, 'cause I need Photoshop, Gimp ain't gonna cut it.
Great job Google/Picasa team!
Is it possible to keep the entire installer on your Hard Disk? What you download appears to be a stub to the full installer over the network.
That's all well and good, but I'd like to have it saved on disk in case I need to reinstall and I lose the link.
Does anyone know of the full download?
I looked all over the site but could find no mention of supported formats - I figured if it didn't say RAW the chances of it being supported were rather slim!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
isnt one of google's greatest strengths the ability to rank things based on how real people are talking about it? ("how" meaning "the fact that").
:) ("Register now to see the answer!", "I have that same problem, no clue.", "No, dont know what you're talking about", "This is the wrong board to ask that question", etc)
:)
Greatest strengths can often be the greatest weakness as well. It's not good to plug the weakness by getting rid of the strength entirely.
This will help the sites which use these tags, good for google for providing an "opt-out" to get rid of spammers.
But this will only serve to hurt google, it seems. Spammers will simply move to other sites, and google loses some of the legitimate posts to go with it. Many places, I can only assume, earned their high rankings by having people actually talking about how good they are. Where the fuck else would common people talk about this stuff? Doesnt this break the entire ranking-by-link system concept?
Now if google had a way to eliminate dead-ends when searching for an answer, that would be great
come on, scientists!
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I'm not sure I'm a Picasa fan. Like you, I want to categorize and organize, and Picasa isn't particularly good at that. But it is good at simply finding things. During its automatic search, it turned up directories of old photos I was sure I'd lost. And I found them because Picasa's good at presenting large gobs of graphical information. Which, for the purposes of finding pictures, is a lot more useful than pattern matching.
Totally OT - nice to see FIW in a sig. Nice crop of obs you have there. ;)
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I've got a fairly extensive image library with images that are the same but slightly altered (i.e. more highly compressed or cropped). Can Picasa find duplicate images? Is there any program that can?
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3. move file to program files\backup
4. dont forget where you stashed it upon next format
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C'mon folks. Let's grapple briefly with reality here. Picasa is clearly a precursor towards a rich client for search and organization. In other words, a shell replacement. Tags? Sharing? Search? Gee, anything else missing for a Longhorn/Tiger competitor? Unfortunately, they're still lobbing these helium-filled softballs into the marketplace. Depressingly, the model seems to be moving somewhat backwards -- what's with the emphasis on folders? Folders are to modern storage as pointers are to modern memory managers: semantically crippled. Folders will be gone within a decade (at least to the extent floppy disks are gone now.) So c'mon Google, grow some reproductive organs. Let's see a swing for the bleachers. Or are you too IPO?
I'd expect that a company whose main server farm runs on Linux would also release Linux versions of it's tools.. i.e. googlebar and picasa. (I know you can get googlebar from mozdev.org, but no picasa).
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I want a feature that will simply let me search for pictures taken between date1 and date2. That cannot be difficult as this information is already stored in the EXIF tags.
Does any viewer/cataloger actually support this?
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but does Picasa ever send any data back to Google? Does it ever send back "anonymous" basic data like "This is the pixel data for what user X12345 selects as a problem redeye area" or "The user liked the results of the 'I'm feeling lucky'' button.'
For example, what if User X used the redeye tool to successfully and satisfactorially remove redeye from a random image, and all of the data regarding how the software did the redeye fix and the data about whe sent to Google anonymously. This data could then be used, for example, by a relatively basic artificial intelligence image processing algorithm in order to be able to use it to determine the best way to de-red-eye an image.
Anonymous image data of such magnitude could be immensely useful.
Okay, I admit I still use windoze after messin about with linux for a long time, so please forgive my ignorance...
If Picasa isn't spyware, why does it need to access the internet during the install?
I denied it access, and it seemed to install okay, but it does seem odd to me, so can anyone answer please?
I'm not trolling, I'm truly curious.
Thanks
And I see they use the nullsoft install tool.
Cool
It's a ton better.
Get ready to get jealous again.
Sure she's not a genius like her little prodigal, but she might be able to recognize the relationship between Hello and Picasa, and perhaps point out that the purpose of each is different. You say Picasa sucks ... what other free beer product on windows does *what it does* better?
Also, your mom says she'll be home a little late tonight.
That option only creates a local html file, so the end user would still need a ftp client to upload the files to a server. And this process isn't even compatible with their own blogger, which seems like a huge oversight.
Note: this is only relevant if you want to upload entire albums to blogger because their 'hello' software allows you to upload individual photos just fine.
Not sure why no-one's mentioned gqview, which works amazingly well. Can catalogue, find dupes, etc, etc, etc. Plus runs on Linux (and other non-MS platforms) and is GPLd. http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
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Zak
I installed this this morning, and to my surprise, the 2nd or 3rd time I started the app, it started asking for an activation key and said I had 15 days to trial the software. Clicking on the 'Buy...' button took me back to the Picasa 2 web page.
Anyone else see this? Anyone knows what's happening???
That's exactly what http://del.icio.us/ is trying to do. Log in and give it a try, it uses a flat hiearchy for organizing bookmarks. When you add something, you stick a few labels on it, and then you can browse all your bookmarks by your labels. AND see who else bookmarked that site and what they used to label them.
i never use a photo organizer but i installed this today and love it allready, especially since i edit, so it's nice that it caches thumbnails of videos
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What programming language and IDE they used to write Picasa2? Anyone know or can tell from the software look?
Maybe I'm being stupid, but I have all my images in a folder tree which looks like e:/2005/december/2
e:/2005/december/3... etc (imagine this over 4 years with images from at least every month.
When Picasa indexes these and displays the folder names on the left, I get lots of identical single folder names for each year - sure - in date order, but, it's impossible to locate anything by foldername. Am I missing something? I'd like to be able to view the full foldername path on the left.
I really do like the interface though its polished and nice for use with a smaller number of images. - but for me it's back to iMatch, absolutely the hands-down best image cataloger available.
Picasa? Pick a ya own Assha!
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Posting pictures of Bill ol Gates in pimp mode made sense. He's was a lonely guy!
You mean this?
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This seems like its going to be my new favourite program, but how do you manage large collections of images folders. I can only select and move one folder at a time into a collection.
I fail to see how this is related to the Da Vinci Code in anyway, and even more confused as to why it is on slashdot?
I can't believe nobody's mentioned ACDSee yet.. we ARE comparing Windows image viewing/sharing/manipulation programs right??
/. who believe anything Google touches is gold.
I've tried Picasa 2 - it's slower than ACDSee 7 and seems to have a bug with its webpage export feature. I just tried creating a thumbnailed page from their existing templates four times... twice amongst two different folders (~20 jpgs ea) and it halted export about 85% thru with a dialog popping up saying "export cancelled." Dunno whats goin' on with that.. no crash/debug/error logs to help explain either..
If Google wants to step into this arena then we might as well size them up with the current king of the ring, so to speak - ACDSee has been my favourite image viewing app since v3 and it's gotten better with every new release. Yes, some might find it bloated, but that's all about setting it up to do what YOU need it to - since it can do everything from unzipping files to creating HTML pages.
Sure, it's not free and it doesn't have the GMail/Blog integration - but it's got more features than Irfan View and Picasa (maybe even combined). I'll spare you the gigantc features listing, but check out the link for more info.
Sorry if this seems like a rant, I have nothing against Google - just the hordes of Google fanboys on
Cheers.
[I'm in no way affiliated with ACD Systems]
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I just hate it when programs do things on their own. Especially when I tell them not to do it.
On install Picasa 2 asked whether I want to keep old database from Picasa or index my disk and find all pics. I chose the first option, but still found out later that Picasa 2 added My Documents folder (which I absolutely abhore and don't use for anything, so it only contains things like NFS2 save files and other crap that various retarded programs put there) and two partitions J: and K: that it has absolutely no business indexing. Surprisingly, the rest of the disks were left as they were (i.e. only some folders on F: were added).
Also, for some unknown reason they removed thumbnails from Picasa albums, which is stupid.
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Does anyone know how to set Picasa 2 to save the rotation changes to the JPEG and not in some application data file somewhere? I constantly import pictures and then alter them using Picasa, but the rotation changes don't seem to come up when I upload them to a website. What's going on?
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Picasa is just another example:
http://www.picasa.com/support/kb_catego
I use Nokia Lifeblog - it allows you to post to blogging accounts like Typepad. It's a free download for a trial version and you acn import files off your hard disk so you don't even need a Nokia phone!
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Your ideas have inspired me to reach for greater metaphysical heights. Please start a cult so that I may join and give you all my money and my house.
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From the "And you wonder why Windows users do silly things like always run with administrator rights" department:
/. user knows that one never does anything as root/administrator on a system except actually administrate the system. Not following this behavioral rule is a sure way to security failures.
Ok, most every
I would have thought that the folks at Google would know this.
But look at the documentation and the FAQ for Picasa 2.0 - it specifically states that you must be Administrator in order to use Picasa!
Now, why in the world would some non-system-admin type of software need to run with administrator rights? Hey, this is 2005. Windows NT has been around for over 10 years. And other than the PC/Micro world, applications have run in normal user rights for as long as I have been in the computing world (over 25 years)
Four and one half circles
Note here is the link to the FAQ item that tells you about the fact that you must run as Administrator!
>Create a non-admin visitor/guest account for friends, leave your shit separate.
Doesn't work, Picasa requires that every user have full admin privs (great design, guys).
Until they come out with something which will not compromise my computer (i.e. depending on IE's browser activex component). I purposefully avoid anything which has that dependency; the fact that it is able to open your default browser is a non-issue; starting IE in whatever form is by itself too risky a behaviour; it's like dousing yourself with gasoline and then saying: But I didn't light a match! Why do I have these 3rd degree burns all over my body???
RTFA - PC Magazine's review
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
You can't install this software without it calling back to the mothership so it has to be sending some data out to them. (Try denying the Zonealarm request when installation starts. The installation will promptly fail.) Now, I don't know if there's data being sent out after that however.
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Actually, all your personal photos will start showing up on images.google.com for the whole world to see. (Just kidding! Yours was a good question, though.)
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
I know its not completely done but have you even looked at F-spot? http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/P IP/rubriq ue.php3?id_rubrique=3
how about gThumb
http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/
or digiKam
http://digikam.sourceforge.net/Digikam-S
If they all would combine their forces, not only would they probably make a lot more headway, they'd have the ever so marketable name G-spotKam.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
I use Adoble Photoshop Album 2.0. The wonderful feature about that is the tag system. You make predetermined tags and as you browse your pictures you can select multiple pictures and drag a tag onto them. Or selece multiple tags and drag onto one or more pictures.
To view just pics of my daughter and my son, i place a check next to just those two tags. Very easy, intuitive etc.
As far as I could tell with Picasa v1 there was nothing similar or as easy. Does v2 let you do anything like this in such an easy manner?
I wrote the web export system. There's even a way to define your own templates. Search the picasa directory for a .doc file that explains how.
Looked at the download on Google's site for their version and it's all well and fine, but if you are a Mac user, you are S.O.L. Don't know if the new version does, but Google's version, as of yesterday, doesn't. Thanks Picasa - for nothing. Lee Darrow, C.H. http://www.leedarrow.com
Thought so. Ha.
Newbie.
I denied it, and it worked!