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jordankreationz · **Picasa -** 02-22-2005, 10:21 PM

Anyone here using picasa and hello? I just got it tonight and I think I really like it quite alot.

:lol:

DJ

adcastillo · 02-22-2005, 10:45 PM

Picasa is definitely great. I'm going to be using it alot more now. What is hello?

jordankreationz · 02-23-2005, 07:14 AM

Apparently hello is a plugin type thing that goes with Picasa that allows you to communicate with your friends and send them pictures. Not sure how it works yet but it does allow you to publish to a blog which is kinda cool I guess. Here's my blog with just what I put up last night. Not fancy shots...just snapshots.

http://deejaysphotos.blogspot.com/

DJ

Steelsun · 02-23-2005, 07:53 AM

Started using Picassa about a week ago. I like it's webpage maker.

One thing I hate is it's directory naming structure, in that is does not list the full directory name. Every directory I make I add 2 folders in: Best Of & Scrappers. Best Of obviously stores the best images in that shoot. Scrappers stored the crap that is better than the stuff I deleted but not bad enough to delete. Running Picassa gives me 50 Best Of folders and 50 Scrappers folders.

Also be careful as Picassa will overwrite your images without warning.

I've taken to making a separate directory just for Picassa images, all duplicates of my originals, and that's the only directory Picassa will look in now and update.

I'm going to try their MP3/Slideshow CD maker this week also and see how it goes.

Hogleg 44 · 02-23-2005, 08:15 AM

Maybe I'll have to try it again. When it first came out, I downloaded and installed it. When I ran it, it started searching my computer for image files.
I have thousands because I have my own pictures, and pictures downloaded via the internet. Then, all of these images are auto-backed up daily to a second internal hard drive. Then manually, when I think of it, to a third internal drive. So I can have multiple instances of a single image file in my computer.
Anyhow, when I started Picasa, it started searching and after finding several thousand, and I think, when it tried to organize them, it froze! Stopped dead and didn't restart.
When something new behaves badly, like Picasa did, I immediately un-installed it, figuring Picasa wasn't capable of the task at hand!

What is it supposed to do anyway? Do you find it useful?

I see a Picasa2 is now out, maybe I'll give it a try/

Hogleg 44 · 02-23-2005, 08:40 AM

My wife has it installed on her computer and it looks pretty nice. I'll try Picasa2 and see how it behaves.

adcastillo · 02-23-2005, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jordankreationz

Apparently hello is a plugin type thing that goes with Picasa that allows you to communicate with your friends and send them pictures. Not sure how it works yet but it does allow you to publish to a blog which is kinda cool I guess. Here's my blog with just what I put up last night. Not fancy shots...just snapshots.

http://deejaysphotos.blogspot.com/

DJ

I didn't know about that. thanks for the info. I checked out your blog....very cool! I just created one a couple of days ago too...
http://douloskurios.blogspot.com/

Steelsun · 02-23-2005, 10:11 AM

Yeah, Picassa automatically starts to index every image on the computer. You need to quickly stop it (there's a cancel/stop button on the page - lower right corner I think) and then use the options or menu to select which directories to index.

Hogleg 44 · 02-23-2005, 03:50 PM

Well, it did it again.!!!

I installed Picasa2 and it ran a scan for picture files and it didn't even begin to find my pictures! It found a bunch of stuff, (along with the few pictures of mine that it did manage to find), that I didn't know were there. Web page graphics I think.

Then when i tried to get it to find the missing pictures, it appeared that I was going to have to point it to every folder in my system one at a time. That would take all day!!!

Then here's cap to another bad experience with Pacasa. When I tried to close the program, it locked up the machine to the point that I had to restart it via the three finger method! A lockup like this is very rare on this computer. I can't remember how long it's been since I had to restart it that way.

After the restart I un-installed it. During which time I got an IE page from Picasa, asking for feedback on the uninstall. I replied telling what happened, and submitted it successfully.

Then in Outlook I had an auto-email from them telling me that they received my reply, but that they wouldn't be responding to it. They were too busy it seems!!! How's that for support!

5 thumbs down for Picasa!

bburton · 02-23-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Hogleg 44

Well, it did it again.!!!
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5 thumbs down for Picasa!

Paul,

I'm with you. I do not like Picassa, or any photo-album-like program, e.g., Adobe, Kodak, which wants to inventory the entire hard drive(s) and every folder which "it" thinks should be a part of the photo collection.

My particular beef is that the file system for Picassa, apparently only lists the files which actually have photos in them. So, if the hard drive has a section for "Original Photos" and another section for "Processed Photos" as mine does, and both of these folders have files named "Christmas 2004," then both files appear in Picassa, for example, next to one another with no easy way to tell which is which.

If I'm going to use any Viewer/Organizer, it had better follow the MS Windows Explorer folder-file system, or it's just too much trouble to sort it all out. ACDSee, for example, does this, and I've used it in the past for that reason.

Regards, Bruce

jordankreationz · 02-23-2005, 05:24 PM

I set it only to index my "My Documents" folder which may be why I didn't have any lockups or trouble with it. I don't want it going thru all temp files and that junk. I read about it in one of my photo magazines which gave it a thumbs up review and I'm all for FREE stuff. I have adobe photo album which cost $50 ish and I hate it. Bogs the whole system. Anyway sorry to hear of your bad experience with Picasa 2. So far so good with me but then life changes every second!!

DJ

Hogleg 44 · 02-23-2005, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bburton

Paul,

I'm with you. I do not like Picassa, or any photo-album-like program, e.g., Adobe, Kodak, which wants to inventory the entire hard drive(s) and every folder which "it" thinks should be a part of the photo collection.
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My particular beef is that the file system for Picassa, apparently only lists the files which actually have photos in them. So, if the hard drive has a section for "Original Photos" and another section for "Processed Photos" as mine does, and both of these folders have files named "Christmas 2004," then both files appear in Picassa, for example, next to one another with no easy way to tell which is which.
Regards, Bruce

It didn't even begin to find my pictures. But! Some of mine are buried 5, 6 or more folders deep...but I know where they are. I can find them when I want to since my system of organization has evolved over the years. My Wife's computer's picture organization isn't nearly so complex, and it found hers ok.

It would be nice to be able to review what's in each folder without having to open it, but Picasa's methods are just not adequate on my system.

+It locked up my machine!!!...Twice1 And that doesn't happen!