- #Is picasa still available for free#
- #Is picasa still available full#
- #Is picasa still available portable#
- #Is picasa still available free#
- #Is picasa still available mac#
That's valuable meta-information for Google's increasingly popular location-based searches and something many photographers might be willing to do for themselves, and for search engines. The same for a geo-tagging standard, with it Google would be able to pinpoint where a photo was taken. Tools like Picasa will encourage more use of information INSIDE the photos, possibly far more relevant material. Interestingly I've also seen postings by some of their folks on geotagging mailing lists where discussions of standardized ways for embedding locations, directions, and covered areas in photos are held.Īs far as I know Google still relies on the page surrounding a photo for key words used in Google's Image Search. This is kinda interesting as Google is a search company and this sort of metadata is exactly what they thrive on.
#Is picasa still available portable#
This is more portable but does mean your keywords are now available in your photos, for good or ill. Picasa 2 uses the IPTC keywords fields for tagging photos, embedded in the photos.
Photoshop Elements 3's Organizer is tremendously versatile with tags and categories but they're all kept within it's database, not written out to the photos. The two design decisions I find most interesting between the products are tagging and connectivity. But if there's interest in more, well, Picasa 2 doesn't stretch any further and Photoshop Elements 3 does, a LOT. It'll be great right away for 50% of the market, and be fine if they never get interested in more then filtering their photos. Again, organizing, some limited canned operations, great for the I-just-want-to-fix-it-so-I-can-see-it/organize-it-so-I-can-find-it crowd but after about an hour you'll have exhausted it's possibilities.
The tool I'd most compare Picasa 2 to is the most recent version of Apple's iPhoto. No support for extending them, nothing for spot work, or layers, or any of that. It has a limited set of basic photo manipulations. Picasa 2 is great, probably more intuitive then Photoshop Elements 3, but it is definitely not ever going to make the prosumer jump. Photoshop Elements 3 compared to Picasa 2, well, there is none. It is greatly expanded beyond the minimal Browsing tool in Photoshop and supports all sorts of tagging, viewing, organizing, and exporting. However in Elements "recipes" for many common tasks are presented front and center and walk users through most of the typical photo enthusiast needs.Īlso Organizer is closely coupled, passing files back and forth to Editor as seamlessly as two separate applications can.
#Is picasa still available full#
Layers are still present, as is full support for plug-ins. While a few of the highest-end (and most specialized) features are out other more appropriate ones are emphasized. Indeed they're both named Photoshop Elements 3 with Album now being referred to as the Organizer & Elements as the Editor.Ĭompared to full-blown Photoshop it's a good package. With Photoshop Elements 3 Adobe is selling a package containing both Photoshop Album & Photoshop Elements, closely coupled together. If you've experience with v.'s 1 & 2 (or their considerably weaker predecessor Photoshop LE) then you'll be surprised at the changes and integration in v. Typing out PS version 3 reminds me: does picasa have layers for instance? And does it support scripting as well as elements does? Because what makes elements shine is the amount of pre-made actions available on the web that do the (more) tedious stuff for you, or from which you can learn the ins and outs.įirst, as noted above, the current version of Photoshop Elements is 3.
#Is picasa still available mac#
I still think elements is great value for money though, but I've been using photoshop since version 3 on a lowly mac so I'm a bit skewed with that respect.
#Is picasa still available free#
As a one stop shop, this free app can be very good. Also, for editing + organising, I like the combo of photoshop Elements AND PS album (or ps elements and iphoto on a mac, no album for mac), but that gets even more expensive.
#Is picasa still available for free#
However, Picasa 2.0 does have some features for free that the Microsoft and Adobe apps have as well. Photoshop Elements is a more robust app, and Album is probably a better comparison.
I don't mean to imply that they have identical functionality. I might be wrong though, I'll check it out when I get home. Those don't look close to the features that Photoshop Elements gives you.
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