Still missing Picasa

[mraL]

Hi,

It's been over a decade and I still do not have any decent alternative to Picasa. I manage to still run it on a windows machine, it's basic functionality still works. Does anyone have any decent alternatives?

Sincerely

Alan

[Rickle]

No, no good alternative, I'm using digiKam, but not as good as picasa was.

[Stefano]

digikam or https://nomacs.org/

[JOSEPH BARR]

have you tried GIMP? it is cross-platform.

Hope this helps

JB

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[Rickle]

yes, I use GIMP for editing sometimes, (mostly I use Inkscape if bit editing is not needed). GIMP and Inkscape are not photo management /organizational apps.

[The Real Bev]

On 11/13/25 12:12, JOSEPH BARR wrote:
> have you tried GIMP? it is cross-platform.
> Hope this helps

Overkill for simple 30-second photo editing. If it were easier I'd love
to use it just for straightening shots of buildings etc. What I use
picasa (linux, running under some weird emulation thing that I don't
want to think about) for is cropping and resizing to the 1600-pixel size
that google photos will let you store free. Maybe adjusting brightness
or trying to change the saturation or contrast, but nothing complex.
I'd like it to enlarge, but you can't have everything. If I'm willing to
give up the exif info I can use xv for that.

My computer and slackware are so old that none of the modern
photo-editing things that people are happy about will install. I've
tried, but the incessant demand for new dependencies (ultimately
resulting in total failure) is discouraging.

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[JOSEPH BARR]

I have noticed the even GIMP ,has gone back on functionality,older versions ,you could scan an image to edit,but now there is no way to scan.

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[Rick Hallock]

makes sense, I have like 70,000 photos going back 2000, digiKam does pretty well and getting better.  I set up a search using the tags and I can use the batch process to convert 100's of them to smaller sizes adding watermarks for slideshows, and don't worry about messing up the originals. 

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Thanks
Rick

[The Real Bev]

On 11/13/25 13:01, Rickle wrote:
> yes, I use GIMP for editing sometimes, (mostly I use Inkscape if bit
> editing is not needed). GIMP and Inkscape are not photo management /
> organizational apps.

That's what google photos albums are for!

I rename my photos to date_time.jpg and store the originals in one
subdirectory and the edited versions in a different one. I've got a
pretty basic indexing system for viewing, but if I really want to find
an old photo I'll go to google photos and look through the albums +/- a
year that are my best guess for when I took it.

Friend went on expensive world trips with her DSLR, used lightroom on
ONE computer to deal with her photos and then developed a memory problem
and doesn't/can't use her computer any more. I think my method is safer.

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[JOSEPH BARR]

thanks ,also there is another one that has been mentioned, Pea shot,or something similar

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[JOSEPH BARR]

the one that i was describing is photopea.com

[Rick Hallock]

mine are organized in folders by year/month/day,  the day folder adds a description after date and each photo is named the same way example:  /home/pics/years/2025/2025-10-24 hall effect chip for auger counting/2025_10_24_11_32_37.jpg.  It was kind of hassle converting my original 8char filenames,which did contain all the same info, just using 1 char each for year, month, day, and hour, I still haven't got the descriptions in all the day directories.

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Thanks
Rick

[Rick Hallock]

photpea looks interesting, I'll have to check it out when I get a "round tuit"

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[Freerk Jongsma]

This is the same for me, but had also a long time Picase alive on my Linux computer.
Also manage my pictures with Gimp and sometimes Krita or Pix
Irfanview under Wine is also a good help.
For manipulating a whole directory of pictures, and renaming tasks it's an exelent programm

Freerk Jongsma

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[graemev]

immich   [  https://immich.app/   ]  is looking pretty good ...not the same beast (you run a server locally) but things like face recognition seem better than Picasa.  They just added OCR so it can also recognise text in photos . I've had a few surprises, some old photos (B&W) from WW2 pulled out a face that was a relative of mine , as he appeared in some group photos I'd added.

[JOSEPH BARR]

i have noticed that too many programs are not as efficient ,when they come out with a new version,e.g. GIMP

has deleted the ability to scan a new image to be worked on.

jb

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