Photo Sofware? What do you use?
 

After Google quit supporting Picasa I am wondering what software is reliable for saving my photos to on my desktop pc? I don't want to spend a fortune but would like fairly easy and be able to put like photos in folders. Somewhat mid range cost to free. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you.

Why not put your photos in folders on a flash drive.

i never used picasa, tho friends tried to talk me into trying it over the years and :shock:..because i am anti all things google. well, i do use google earth to wander the planetary surface, & it's come in handy a few times to find my son :o

i think picasa had image editing capability as well as nice file system for organizing. i like making files ..my files have files ..even my bookmarks are files w/in files w/in ....:D. but as donnajean notes, for quick & easy sorting and finding ...use a flash drive. also, when using an online photo server like picasa, webshots, photobucket & many many others, if site goes down ..you lose your photos. they're safer on pc. on my pc i just make a special location on the c-drive. then w/in there i make files and sort all pics into appropriate files. ie -quilts, furballs, grands, etc. for image manipulation i use a free download from irfanview -- http://www.irfanview.com

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photoshop plug-ins are compatible w the irfanview. make slide shows etc. all free & after 20 yrs of using it, i've never had a virus, malware, or any type of bug attached to updates etc. my pc guy even re-installed it on my new pc after building for me. said he saw it on my pld pc. said he used it on his own pc & that it was sn impressive program for free. but he didn't know about the slide shows. it's a nice program ..try it.

I use Photo Elements by Adobe to clip, enhance and resize. Simple , cheap. one time charge of $70.00 (with 2 licences to use on 2 computers) And Photo Bucket (free website) to store my photos

I used to do this and it works great. Now I have a passport external hard drive that holds tons of stuff so I just keep them on my computer with a copy on the passports. I have 3 for the office and rotate them out.

My computer - still using Windows 7 as an operating system - functions such that when I download from my camera, it automatically creates a folder with that day's date and stores all the photos there. I can then open any photo in the resident viewer. Not sure if it's adobe or not. Nothing I'm looking at on the computer is jumping out at me as the correct one at the moment, sorry. I then can simply use the OS tools to copy/move to a flash drive or external hard drive; copy to CD/DVD; whatever.

No fees of any sort.

i miss the picassa add on, but i still use picassa. i'm sure there is something out there that is easier to use, but i don't want to learn something new. i resize my photos in paint.

I still use Picasa, it is easy to use, makes beautiful collages, and I can store pictures on my pc or on a flash drive. Does anyone know of a free software that is like Picasa

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

Right now I save photos when I download them on my computer and cannot find them. They used to go straight to Picasa. I am taking my computer in to get cleaned up so maybe he can help tell me where my photos are. I am using Windows 8.1 and it has been working fine until I ran into problems with Google. Yuk.

I do need to buckle down and learn how to work with flash drives. I guess it is partly a matter of learning to trust them. lol

New technology: I have a love/hate relationship with.

A friend yesterday told me about iMemories, so I might look into that. Again, thank you for your help. It is so nice to count on my QB friends!

Try Evernote... it's like pinterest only not so public... it's free and easy to use.

I have a 32gb flash drive, that's where I've put all my photos over the last few years, just plug it in and can see any photo I want. Have folders in it and all our family and friends have their own folders. Can access them by just plugging in the drive. Am scanning all my printed photographs too, believe me, I have many years to work with but love doing it.

I am also scanning in old pictures. I have a portable scanner I always carry to family reunions and am slowly scanning in their pictures too!! Especially any of my parents others may have that I do not!!

You should have a folder with the name of your computer on it. The one on my laptop says......"this" pc" inside that folder should be on labeled "my pictures" that is usually where they are stored. I had just moved all my photos to my extra hard drive installed on my computer. The extra hard drive is for storage, the main hard drive has my operating system on it.

Right now, my desktop pc is at the computer store. I accidentally clicked a box and a whole bunch of things disappeared off my desktop. Try as I might I couldn't find where they went to. The folders are still on my computer, but I couldn't get them to go back " home"....lol And also for some reason Firefox didn't want to work properly after that either. So while they have it, I am getting two new fans put in to cool off the two video cards I have installed.

You don't need a program, just save it to a folder either on your desktop or in my documents in the picture folders. You can create and rename folders as you like and its easy to print too. You can print any size, one pic, a page of pictures etc.