![]() This post was published on PETAPIXELa photography blog with over half a million followers. ![]() I feel like Adobe have seriously missed a beat with Lightroom, is it too much to ask that I can see every single file on my system without the whole app slowing to a halt? If anybody has a modern solution to this problem I would love to hear it, but for now, I will continue to use my antique Google App. I am grateful that I am still able to use this defunct software and it still serves a purpose for me FINDING STUFF! You can’t download Picasa directly from Google anymore, but you should be able to find a copy online if you look in the right places. The UI hasn’t aged too well with a boring grey theme but that feels like picking hairs. After connecting to the internet, open the Picasa desktop application and click on the 'start' button. There are some drawbacks, I would love to see so many improvements made with Picasa such as being able to select numerous folders at once and edit them (adding tags etc), and I’d love if they brought back being able to upload to Google Photos directly again. Clicking through random folders and seeing images you long forgot is almost therapeutic in it’s simplicity. Picasa opens and closes instantly and doesn’t require you to manually import every file, just select which drives you want it to watch and it will always be up-to-date. The best part? It handles RAW files like a goddamn boss. Every image I have taken can be seen in one place without having to cross my fingers each time I double click on a folder. With a quarter of a million, (over 1TB) in thousands of folders across four different drives. Picasa, on the other hand, displays all of my images instantly. Painfully loading the original file plus all of your edits overlaid, Lightroom struggles after a while and needs purging. Lightroom could be used for the same purpose but unfortunately, it just doesn’t. Being online, it needs to download every single image as you browse. Google Photos is impossible to quickly scroll through. What Picasa does that neither Lightroom nor Google Photos do, is allow you to browse all of your images lightning fast. Forget about the editing as it gives you basic features red-eye removal, auto-white balance, cropping, light-sliders, colour change, etc. It works just like Adobe’s Lightroom without all of the bells and whistles. In 2015 Google released their last update and has since replaced it with the now ubiquitous Google Photos. Google’s Picasa was first released in 2002 as a quick way to catalogue and edit your photos en-mass. ![]() I’m Still Using Google’s Discontinued Picasa in 2022.
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