Hi Mason,

Picasa is a software download from Google, that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. The local application usage and the online storage up to 1 GB is free, and it is easy to use.

Here are some alternatives to Picassa:

1. ACDSee 20
It is a powerful desktop photo organizer that vastly improves upon the editing and management features available in Picasa. With ACDSee, there is no need to import your photo collection; it's all right there on your hard drive, and you have full control of the navigation and organization.

ACDSee has all the great tools you've come to love, like cropping, slideshow creation, blemish repair, red eye correction, album categorization, and text controls. In addition to these classic features, ACDSee 20 adds an impressive variety of additional features like light equalization, lighting/exposure controls, special effects, vignetting, sharpen/blur tools, metadata, and so much more.

Here's the link for more information:
http://www.acdsee.co...

2. JetPhoto
JetPhoto is a reliable free alternative to Picasa that offers a big list of features with a simple and beautiful interface. The photos are organised into folders and use different organising methods to arrange the pictures. You can use photo metadata, notes, keywords, geodata and time to assemble the photos.

It also comes with basic photo editing features to beautify your photos, including colour balance, enhancing, brightness and contrast adjustment, cropping and dozens of effects to make your pictures differently.
It has a unique Calendar and Map feature that let you see all your photos on Calendar and a Map (digital map) to find easily the ones you need. You can also create flash movies with your photos, and it makes sharing your photos/videos a breeze. Apart from pictures, it will also manage your videos and offer few video editing tools as well.

3. IrfanView
IrfanView is an incredibly simple photo organising tool that is light with a simple to navigate interface. However, behind its simple interface, it hides some amazing professional features perfect for professional photographers. The tool focus on both photo organising, and photo editing, so you will find loads of features for both purposes.

Its editing features include annotation, Multipage TIF editing, colour depth, enhance, IPTC editing, effects and filters, lossless rotation and much more. The tools are also very customizable with support for hundreds of formats, you can change skins, change preview, search files with a simple keyword, directory view, Adobe Photoshop filters support, print option, overlay images and support for the media player, etc.
It also comes with a big list of plugins that add tonnes of different features, like burning slideshows, email support, face detects, filters, metadata and more.

4. FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments.
Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Lokesh

Hi there Mason,

Just want to add for your choice list.

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches one of the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG).

It's completely free for home users.

Features:

• Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
• Support of many popular image formats
• True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
• Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
• Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels etc.
• Eleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
• Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
• Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
• Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
• Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
• Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
• Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
• One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
• Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
• Histogram display with color counter feature
• Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
• Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
• Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
• Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
• Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
• Print images with full page-layout control
• Create fully configurable Contact Sheets
• Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
• Acquire images from scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG
• Versatile screen capture capability
• Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
• Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
• Offer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
• Configurable mouse wheel support
• Support program skins
• Support dual-monitor configurations
• Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
• Support dual instances

You can visit and check it from there website: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

I hope this helps.

Regards,


Ryan

Hi Mason,

Thank you for posting your concern’s here.

I am sorry to hear about the Picasa problem you are experiencing.

I would like to suggest few alternative softwares below.

• Google Photos

Google has ended the update service for Picasa and if you want to have a more reliable and updated photo organizer, I highly recommend you to switch to Google photos.
Here’s Google photo’s link: https://photos.goog...

• Phototheca 2

While other services are pretty useful and reliable, including Google photo’s, you always have an option to choose Phototheca 2. This software is an easy to use one and could sort thousand of images for you.
Direct Download link: http://lunarship.com...

•  Windows Live Photo Gallery

When it comes to editing and organizing your photo’s or want to share it online, you can choose Windows Live Photo Gallery. One of the easy to use software and also have a good name on the market.
Direct download link: http://www.microsoft...

I hope this helps you with your concern.

If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Best Regards,

Christian