picasa2 alternative help me

hi
i use picasa2 , and it's great

but i 'm looking for a better pics organiser

in short a better program then picasa with more features , to make me my file better

outside lightroom , what do u use?

Could try Photoshop Elements,
or Adobe Photoshop Album starter Edition 3.0 (free)

There is no better program than Picasa

Seriously though, you might want to be more specific on which features you want. What are you missing? Perhaps you should ask Google to add that feature to Picasa?

I use and love Picasa. It has some flaws, but no worse than others I've tried and it still has the biggest benefit of allowing you to apply minor edits without changing the original file or making a copy.

Poco wrote in post #3337930
There is no better program than Picasa

Seriously though, you might want to be more specific on which features you want. What are you missing? Perhaps you should ask Google to add that feature to Picasa?

I use and love Picasa. It has some flaws, but no worse than others I've tried and it still has the biggest benefit of allowing you to apply minor edits without changing the original file or making a copy.

i thought about ACDSee 9.0 or Digital Image Standard

Poco wrote in post #3337930
There is no better program than Picasa

Seriously though, you might want to be more specific on which features you want. What are you missing? Perhaps you should ask Google to add that feature to Picasa?

I use and love Picasa. It has some flaws, but no worse than others I've tried and it still has the biggest benefit of allowing you to apply minor edits without changing the original file or making a copy.

picasa is great
but does not read raw file good!
to me they are more dark then the jpg

Because I only make adjustments in DPP or Photoshop I've ditched Picasa (had used it for 2 years) and now use DPP as my 'photo browser'. Gives me exactly what I need and has allowed me to rationalise the number of programs on my PC. As far as I remember Picasa is not colour managed and so not very useful to me once I moved over to Adobe RGB as it will only display sRGB correctly. Of course DPP comes free with the camera as does EOS Viewer Utility.

DPP will display RAW, tif and jpg but is better than Windows Explorer thumbnails because you can open up a file just by double-clicking on it and start editing. You can bookmark files, prioritise them or choose to view just one particular file type at a time. You can also choose to view the thumbnails (which can be quite large) with the histogram and exif info displayed alongside.

I do, however, miss the fullscreen slideshow that Picasa could do.

Zoombrowser will do full screen slideshows (jpg or Canon raw), as will
Windows Explorer, via the photo/fax viewer utility (Win XP) (jpg only),
Windows Media Player (jpg in XP, jpg and raw in Vista with Canon raw codec),
Windows Photo Gallery (Vista)(jpg and Canon raw with Canon raw codec).

IDimager has a free image organizer if one is looking to add keywords and the like. Use it to catalog my images, use DPP & PS to edit.

http://www.idimager.co​m/download.htm

Cerbera LM wrote in post #3348774
IDimager has a free image organizer if one is looking to add keywords and the like. Use it to catalog my images, use DPP & PS to edit.

http://www.idimager.co​m/download.htm

i'm looking for a software that let me send many photos to other applications

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #3336971
Could try Photoshop Elements,
or Adobe Photoshop Album starter Edition 3.0 (free)

does abody photoshop album starter make a slide cd?

mantra wrote in post #3358683
does abody photoshop album starter make a slide cd?

not as such...
according to documentation you can:

1) burn photos to cd (guess you could then use dvd player that can play back .jpgs)

2) create a .pdf slideshow

But it doesn't support RAW (I believe).

As far as slideshow software, I was impressed with Microsoft Photostory 3... don't think it has direct burning to cd/dvd, you may need addtional software for that. BUt it has transitions, pan and zoom, music, etc... and it's free.

I created one for my parents a few years ago that I used other free software to burn to a CD-R to create a VCD (which is viewable in many DVD players.) Everyone liked it (except my sisters, who thought I used the worst possible pictures of them. )

is there picasa plugins or add -on ?

mantra wrote in post #3351755
i'm looking for a software that let me send many photos to other applications

I've been trying IDimager and it will send multiple photos to other applications. I've sent both multiple jpegs and raw to photoshop.

It will also read the XMP sidecar files created by Bridge, for me that's a great plus.

Ed

Cerbera LM wrote in post #3348774
IDimager has a free image organizer if one is looking to add keywords and the like. Use it to catalog my images, use DPP & PS to edit.

http://www.idimager.co​m/download.htm

which is free?
i did not find the home page the free version

Photoshop Elements 5 is cheap but not free, comes with an organizer, supports raw, is a better photo editor than Picasa, and you can make slideshows on cd or dvd...It's all i need!