Whether this picture viewer installed or not, it does not matter, when you press the “Finish” button, it will open the Picasa program.
In the below photo viewer, we have a menu bar with several buttons that we can use to display images, slightly edit and upload them to Picasa Web Albums without having to fully open.īy clicking on the buttons in the menu bar you can navigate between the different pictures in the folder, you can zoom in and out on the picture and we have a number of buttons that we will discuss in this Picasa course.
Picasa google install#
If you wish to have only the Picasa photo viewer and not use the Picasa program, you must first install Picasa and its photo viewer and then remove Picasa. You can still change this later, when you use Picasa.
Picasa google windows#
I like this better than the Windows viewer, so I choose the first option. If you do not want to, you need not install it, select the second radio button (2) and click the “Finish” button. If you want to use it as default viewer select the upper radio button (1) and click the “Finish” button. You can set the Picasa Photo Viewer as the default photo viewer for all types of files supported by Picasa picture viewer (. The photo viewer is a small program that allow us to quickly view photos on your computer desktop or in Windows Explorer. Then appears, and this is new in Picasa 3, a configuration window of the new Picasa photo viewer. My suggestion is that you choose the option to scan “Only My Documents, My Pictures …”, this is a lot faster.Ĭlick the “Continue” button when you have made a choice.
The most obvious option is the option that scans only the folders “My Documents”, “My Pictures” and the desktop.ĭo not panic, we can change this at any time when we are working in Picasa. If you choose to do so, it can take a while. When you choose the option to scan all folders, Picasa will scan all the folders on your computer for your photos. You must know that Picasa will manage all your photos in a kind of library, the first thing is to let it know where it can find the photographs, or rather what folders on your computer Picasa should scan to retrieve these pictures. When we first open Picasa, Picasa will want to know where the photos that you want to include in the library of Picasa, are located.
Picasa google download#
If you have not already done so, this is the address where you can download it from.
I suppose anyone can follow the course on Picasa if the program is already downloaded from the Google site. What ‘edit’ means is, you obviously do not expect that it could be like a Photoshop, but for most of us it is quite sufficient and it saves you several dollars in your wallet.
Picasa google free#
Google Photos, instead, is a mobile or web app, with cloud storage.Picasa is a free program from Google that helps you see the pictures on your computer and you can organize, search, edit, and share them with other people. Picasa, on the other hand, displayed all the images at a glance.Īnother critic was that Picasa was a desktop program with cloud storage. One of the common critics has been how slow does Google Photos charge your photos as you browse through the app. Many users struggled to adapt to Google Photos, as Picasa was different. Make sure to check this article to find out more alternatives, as well as the differences between them. Some other alternative apps are Windows and MacOs Photos Gallery, Adobe Lightroom, Photoscape, Dropbox, and Flickr. Google Photos was the recommendation from Google, but the services had some differences (more on that below). Picasa’s users went crazy to find which tool to move on to. As for Picasa Web Albums, it was shut down on 1st May 2016. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products."įrom 15th March 2016 onwards, Picasa’s desktop app stopped receiving updates (but it continued to work). "After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. In 2016, Google decided to shut down Picasa and Picasa Web Albums.Īs stated in this article written by Google, the decision to shut down Picasa was part of their efforts to focus on Google Photos, a newer photo-sharing/storage service. Picasa Web Albums was a well-known feature of Picasa that allowed users to share photo albums with friends and family.