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I used to use Picasa but they retired it and i cant download it to my new PC. I had Adobe but found it very complicated. I'm on Windows 10. Can anyone recommend please? Free is good but don't mind paying for the right thing?
For the very basic tweaking I use FastStone Image Viewer (is free).
Maybe not what you're looking for, but I am looking for alternatives to Photoshop and have been very impressed by Pixelmator and (even more so) by Affinity Photo. Not free, but not Ps territory.
Picasa still works
I use Polarr but there are loads of similar cross platform apps that do similar.
Pixlr is a good shout too - 2 or 3 apps depending on how deep you want to go with your editing.
[url= https://pixlr.com/ ]Pixlr [/url]and [url= https://www.gimp.org/ ]GIMP[/url].
There's an Open Source version of photoshop but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called, I've got it here somewhere, maybe I'll be back with an Edit.
Found it, GIMP it's called.
As above Picasa works fine in W10. The W10 photos app has also been much improved and is good for simple editing.
I had Picasa on my old laptop but now they say it's retired and to use Google Photos
I like irfanview, very simple to use.
Thanks. I'm going try PIXL R
I don't know what sort of editing you do but, Lightroom is the professional version of Picasa in terms of photo management and stuff like contrast adjustment.
For retouching, Gimp is well regarded but confuses the crap out of me. I use Paint.Net which feels to me like the spiritual successor to Paint Shop Pro (back when it was free and came on three floppy disks).
Has anyone tried the latest versions of Paintshop Pro?
You can get it for around £65 and it seems to get decent reviews.
I keep debating buying it, because I could do with a program that I can edit photos with, but also has some kind of organisational/catalogue side to it.
There's also a product called On1 Photo Raw, which I keep getting e-mails about because I've got a free copy of one of their plug-ins (from a magazine). They are always sending offers & discounts.
It looks pretty slick, but there's not quite as much information about it out there.
It seems like more of an effects program, than an editor....
PaintShop Pro is very capable, but it's a big installation, and can be extremely flaky, slow and unreliable on a lot of machines, without there being any obvious rhyme or reason to it.
On1 Photo Raw is primarily a Raw converter with editing capability, rather than an image editor: and in my experience (I do [url= http://www.capture-the-moment.co.uk/tp/ ]a bit of photography[/url] and I'm pretty demanding about my end-results) it's a work in progress; and overpriced for what it is.
I've been a satisfied PhotoShop user for years (I even liked the subscription pricing model, and I [i]don't[/i] see Adobe as the Devil Incarnate), but - like a lot of folk - I've moved to Affinity Photo, and can't see that changing any time soon...
It's important to point out that even though two packages might have similar functionality, they won't have the same [i]capability[/i] - as anyone who has tried to effectively recover highlights or deal with high ISO noise without killing detail - will know.
Cheers, keithr - does Affinity photo have an 'organising/cataloguing' element to it, or is it purely an editor?
It looks like a really good program.
It hasn't got cataloguing/DAM [i]yet[/i] - but Serif has a solution in development.
Depending on your DAM needs, Picasa is still pretty good; and I just use my OS' tagging/Exif/search tools (in Win Explorer) to manage my thousands of images - it can do a lot more than most people realise...
Dark table might work
Not tried it bit its meant to be a free Lightroom alternative. So a bit like Picasa. Apparently it has some cataloging facilities
If you really want Picasa it is still possible to download it:
http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa38-setup.exe
It's important to point out that even though two packages might have similar functionality, they won't have the same capability - as anyone who has tried to effectively recover highlights or deal with high ISO noise without killing detail - will know.
I've used Ps for a number of years, and have been a fan of "content aware fill" for removing unwanted stuff from the image, but I'm blown away by Affinity's "inpainting" equivalent tool. It really does seem like magic!