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Picasa’s free and effective photo editor is useful freeware for photography lovers. It functions in a number of different ways as an image organizer and viewer for manipulating and editing digital photos. Affordable and geared towards beginners, it’s easy to use Picasa’s photo-editing tools to enhance images, remove red-eye, and correct contrasts and colors. Although it is discontinued, is it still available for Picasa? Although now discontinued, Picasa is still available to download and use offline. Picasa was created by a company called Lifescape in 2002. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it free. However, in February 2016, Google announced that it would stop supporting Picasa Desktop and Web Albums. Picasa Web Albums, a companion service, closed in May (feature () {(‘review-app-page-desktop’);}); Despite this, Picasa is still available and will continue to work where it is already installed. It is fully compatible with Windows 10, although no new updates will be made. Picasa software no longer works online, so you will not be able to add or sync albums, or a person will be available for Mac. Alternative Picasi As an alternative to Picasi, Google recommends using its Google Photos service to create albums, share photos, edit photos and browse your photos. There are other alternatives to Picasa. For a simple photo organizer, Fotobounce does enough work, even if the interface is not very user friendly. FastStone Image Viewer is both an image viewer and an editor, although it lacks the Picasa editing feature. Ribbet Photo Editor offers intuitive photo editing services on a variety of platforms. IrfanView provides robust image viewing and editing (and batch editing) of photos, while ACDSee is an image organizer, viewer and editor. For those who want more powerful photo editing, Adobe Photoshop is one of the most advanced and popular image editors in the world. Meanwhile, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is simpler and easier to use, but still has advanced tools. What can I do with Picasa? Downloading and installing Picasa is easy with Windows settings. Once the application starts, users can choose where Picasa imports images to their computer: choose to scan My Documents, My Pictures and Desktop, or scan their entire computer. At this stage, you can also use the Picasa Photo Viewer to view photos directly from Windows Explorer. The browser can open different types of files, including the extensions .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .tga, .tif, and .TIFF, .webp, and .raw. Picasa also lets you choose devices and folders to scan, allowing you to automatically sync each time you open the software. No need to import new images manually. Once your photos are added to Picasa, they are organized into albums that appear in folders with the same name from which they were taken. You can rearrange and move photos from one place to another simply by dragging and dropping them. Picasa also lets you add tags to your photos so you can easily sort them, including adding where the photos were taken (although this must be entered manually today). You can also tagpeople in pictures to find them easily. Picasa’s interface is pretty basic, and now it looks pretty boxy and dated. You can change the way photos are displayed and easily switch between Library view and Edit view (located in the View menu). The interface tabs distinguish different library projects and import sections. Fast and efficient editing without plug-ins Picasa is not special editing software, but it does provide an interesting set of functions that you can use for basic editing, be it frame-by-frame, tile, or group. Improvements include cropping, straightening, automatic light, color and contrast adjustment, improved sharpness, and red-eye correction. You can also use the fun and useful image options to apply filters. There are many fun filters available, which are fully customizable and make our images very interesting. Picasa is extremely easy to use for editing photos. Tips appear when you hover over icons, while more complex tools, such as red-eye removal and retouching, display full instructions in the toolbar on the left side of the screen. It should be easy for beginners to create well enhanced photos. Other features are built into Picasa so you can use your photos to create posters, collages, screen savers, and videos. If you’re nodding to the Picasa era, you can even create a gift CD by selecting and burning images to CD with a disc burner. We liked the intuitive functionality of Picasa when creating creative projects. The program provides simple instructions to follow, and we were able to quickly compose a video from our photos, add audio, and basic transitions. We liked the fact that it was easy to resize the video and adjust the length of the video to fit the sound. Lastly, Picasa also includes several very useful options for detecting duplicates and blank albums and compressing photo editing software. Picasa is perfect for organizing your photo albums, touching up photos first, and creating fun projects like videos and collages. In addition to being free, the beauty of Picasa is also comprehensive and accessible. It doesn’t offer many advanced settings, but the editing tool is easy to use and fully customizable for users who want some flexibility. The interface is intuitive and provides instant access to all the program’s options. Less experienced users will receive comprehensive help built into the software so they can better understand its features and how to use it.