Each has a free trial to download so you can sample the software before buying it. The Flickr picture-sharing site, recently acquired by SmugMug, offers photo editing tools, a terabyte of free storage space and a service to print photo books.įor those who want robust editing and album-management features and don’t mind paying, ADSee Photo Studio (versions starting at $60) and Adobe Photoshop Elements ($100) are two programs to consider. If it piques your interest, GIMP has an online user manual you can browse before downloading. The cross-platform, open-source GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) software is another versatile photo-editing program, but might be a little more technical than some entry-level applications. Still, some may find the photo-editing tools more limited than those offered in Picasa. Google Photos can back up pictures on your computer to server space online, and you can order printed book s of your pictures online. You just need to log in at with the same Google Account name and password you used for Picasa. Google Photos - the service that replaced Picasa in the company’s free software lineup - might be the easiest move for your files, as your Picasa Web Albums are most likely there already thanks to Google’s transition from the old program to the new one. To help narrow your options, make a list of the features you used the most and then try to find a replacement that matches up best with the Picasa toolbox. Similar programs do exist, but they may not have quite the same suite of editing tools and easy online album-sharing capabilities as the free Picasa software. After retiring Picasa from further development in 2016, Google announced in March that the desktop photo-editing program would no longer work to upload or download photos, or manage online albums. Is there another program that would be as easy as Picasa?Ī.

As you know, Google no longer supports Picasa.

For many years, I used Picasa to edit my photos and send them to have prints made.

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