Picasa equivalent
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anonymous-user

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85 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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theaxe

3,571 posts

253 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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Google Photos is excellent and replaced Picasa, is there anything specific that Picasa did that Google Photos doesn't? Also if you have Amazon Prime they offer something similar for free.

knk

1,346 posts

302 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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anonymous said:
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You can. It has pretty good editing features.

Corso Marche

1,907 posts

232 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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Google Photos has pretty good editing tools for straightforward DIY home use. More than enough for most people.
What didn't make it from Picasa to G Photos is now contained in Snapseed.
Put them together and most bases are covered for home use.
The only niggle I have with Snapseed is it's not as easy to reduce noise as in Lightroom, but every option has a niggle somewhere.
I've both Snapseed and Lightroom, but seldom use either. G Photos does 99% of my editing/tweaking.

colin79666

2,228 posts

144 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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theaxe

3,571 posts

253 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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Once you have a photo selected you should have these options:


The third one along should give you the editing options you need, including the crop tool which looks like this:


The waste bin will delete it.

rix

2,964 posts

221 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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Slightly off topic but what do people now use to replace photobucket? I have edited a load of pics in Google photos but was surprised there was no ability to easily generate img tags to imbed in a forum. I can see its possible to generate a 'public' url but its a total faff....

Corso Marche

1,907 posts

232 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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I just use Tapatalk for sharing photos on forums from G Photos. You'll have trouble using a URL link from G Photos on a forum. It'll eventually break, as Google don't intend it to provide image hosting for forums.

Corso Marche

1,907 posts

232 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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And these are the other editing tools, if you don't want to use the preset filters.
As mentioned earlier, it's more than adequate for home/DIY use, and what I use 99% of the time for editing.


WIRREN

51 posts

313 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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Hi,
This site is very useful for any old programs, I downloaded the Picasa 3.9.10.4 version and it works a treat .

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/picasa/

Hope this meets your needs.

Mark.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

85 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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I still use picasa desktop. Uploads my photo automatically.

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

281 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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theaxe][url said:
Also if you have Amazon Prime they offer something similar for free.
Can you expand on that please.

Corso Marche

1,907 posts

232 months

Sunday 27th January 2019
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anonymous said:
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If you've located the crop and rotate tools then look at my post a little earlier and you'll see the other editing tools under the central icon.
(Filters are first option, then manual editing tools, then crop & rotate tools.)