picasa vs photoshop

I downloaded it last night and I’m trying it out now. As far as file organization, I like it so far. I really love the interface. I also have Photoshop Album. I’m going to spend some time in the next week comparing the two. I’ll report back.

You might as well download Picasa. It’s free.

Michael J

"Robert Feinman" wrote in message

I’m wondering if anyone has tried the new Picasa from Google yet. It is supposed to support .PSD and raw formats.
However, in the past, I’ve never found a program that opens the layered CS versions of Photoshop files. They just read the flattened version (if present).
So programs like IrfanView can’t show thumbnails of native .PSD files, for example.

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Robert Feinman wrote:

I’m wondering if anyone has tried the new Picasa from Google yet. It is supposed to support .PSD and raw formats.
However, in the past, I’ve never found a program that opens the layered CS versions of Photoshop files. They just read the flattened version (if present).
So programs like IrfanView can’t show thumbnails of native .PSD files, for example.

I’ve been playing with it for the last couple of hours, and WOW! Well worth the download. At a minimum, this will be the first program I show to friends who are just getting started – at a maximum this may change the way I organize and access my images. The editing functions are fairly advanced and carefully chosen.
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:21:15 -0600, "Michael J" wrote:

I downloaded it last night and I’m trying it out now. As far as file organization, I like it so far. I really love the interface. I also have Photoshop Album. I’m going to spend some time in the next week comparing the two. I’ll report back.

You might as well download Picasa. It’s free.

Michael J

So is the smallpox and TB.

Robert Feinman wrote:

I’m wondering if anyone has tried the new Picasa from Google yet. It is supposed to support .PSD and raw formats.
However, in the past, I’ve never found a program that opens the layered CS versions of Photoshop files. They just read the flattened version (if present).
So programs like IrfanView can’t show thumbnails of native .PSD files, for example.

I have been using since the first day it was offered by Google. I love it!
Can’t find a faster way to find images on your drives.

Stephan

Stephan wrote:

Robert Feinman wrote:

I’m wondering if anyone has tried the new Picasa from Google yet. It is supposed to support .PSD and raw formats.
However, in the past, I’ve never found a program that opens the layered CS versions of Photoshop files. They just read the flattened version (if present). So programs like IrfanView can’t show thumbnails of native
.PSD files, for example.

I have been using since the first day it was offered by Google. I love it!
Can’t find a faster way to find images on your drives.

Stephan

Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

Both (IMHO) do quite different jobs (obviously)

It would be grand is the CS bundle had a lite and flighty browser – until then I will use and respect Picasa 8)

Aerticeus

Aerticulean Effort wrote:
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Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

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Aerticeus

Yes, both are well worth purchasing. One of them is free. 🙂 —

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Aerticulean Effort wrote:
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Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

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Aerticeus

Yes, both are well worth purchasing. One of them is free. 🙂

No one has yet answered by original question about the ability of Picasa to open layered, 16 bit, Photoshop images which don’t contain a flattened version.

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"Aerticulean Effort" wrote in message

It would be grand is the CS bundle had a lite and flighty browser – until then I will use and respect Picasa 8)

Picasa 8?? Geez, I’ve only just managed to get hold of Picasa 2.

"Robert Feinman" wrote in message

No one has yet answered by original question about the ability of Picasa to open layered, 16 bit, Photoshop images which don’t contain a flattened version.

Michael J answered your question: it’s free; download it and find out for yourself.

Robert Feinman wrote:

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Aerticulean Effort wrote:
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Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

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Aerticeus

Yes, both are well worth purchasing. One of them is free. 🙂

No one has yet answered by original question about the ability of Picasa to open layered, 16 bit, Photoshop images which don’t contain a flattened version.

No. it does not.

However Photoline32 will open psds in layers, though the layers palette is upside down in Photoline. Don’t know about 16 bit.

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edjh wrote:

Robert Feinman wrote:

In article <2SgId.4336$>,
says…

Aerticulean Effort wrote:
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Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

…

Aerticeus

Yes, both are well worth purchasing. One of them is free. 🙂

No one has yet answered by original question about the ability of Picasa to open layered, 16 bit, Photoshop images which don’t contain a flattened version.

No. it does not.

However Photoline32 will open psds in layers, though the layers palette is upside down in Photoline. Don’t know about 16 bit.

It also doesn’t show Photoshop files saved as TIFF with Zip. That’s a big one for me, as that is my "working" format for single layer files.

Another annoyance is that you can’t tell it to use Photoshop for editing. As I have PS, I have no desire to edit anything in any other program.

So, what’s the point? It doesn’t show most of my files and won’t let me edit with my editor. I uninstalled it right away.

Clyde

Clyde wrote:

It also doesn’t show Photoshop files saved as TIFF with Zip. That’s a big one for me, as that is my "working" format for single layer files.
Another annoyance is that you can’t tell it to use Photoshop for editing. As I have PS, I have no desire to edit anything in any other program.

So, what’s the point? It doesn’t show most of my files and won’t let me edit with my editor. I uninstalled it right away.

Clyde

I had a look at Picassa some weeks ago. It is still on the family PC where their cameras all record in JPG. It’s pretty useless for Canon DSLR owners who shoot RAW. It does have a lot of promise if the developers ever decide to go head to head with ACDsee and similar programs but for commercial or industrial use, it has considerable limitations.

Irfanview on the other hand is just as fast, perhaps more agricultural but none the less bullet proof and the developer is on the ball whenever a new file standard emerges. Irfanview can be told to use PS as the external editor and has some really useful file conversion utilities. It too is free. I think Picassa is not intended for use by anyone needing an archival system.

Where can I find Picasa 8. Seems they skipped a few versions.

Aerticulean Effort wrote:

Stephan wrote:

Robert Feinman wrote:

I’m wondering if anyone has tried the new Picasa from Google yet. It is supposed to support .PSD and raw formats.
However, in the past, I’ve never found a program that opens the layered CS versions of Photoshop files. They just read the flattened version (if present). So programs like IrfanView can’t show thumbnails of native
.PSD files, for example.

I have been using since the first day it was offered by Google. I love it!
Can’t find a faster way to find images on your drives.

Stephan

Both are (IMHO) brilliant and well worth purchasing

Both (IMHO) do quite different jobs (obviously)

It would be grand is the CS bundle had a lite and flighty browser – until then I will use and respect Picasa 8)

Aerticeus

donster wrote:

Where can I find Picasa 8. Seems they skipped a few versions.

The New, New, Pretty-much New Version 2 has been avalable for about a week.

Answers some questions (Raw, Zoom).

I like it.

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:06:45 +1000, Ryadia wrote:

Irfanview on the other hand is just as fast, perhaps more agricultural but none the less bullet proof and the developer is on the ball whenever a new file standard emerges. Irfanview can be told to use PS as the external editor and has some really useful file conversion utilities. It too is free. I think Picassa is not intended for use by anyone needing an archival system.

The major problem I have with IV is that it’s got an SDI rather than an MDI interface. That means it’s almost useless for my purposes. I do keep it on the hard drive in case I need to look at a single image quickly, but if it wasn’t free, I wouldn’t bother. A lot of nice work by the developer though who has provided a simple program for those who need it.

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In article , Ryadia wrote:

I had a look at Picassa some weeks ago. It is still on the family PC where their cameras all record in JPG. It’s pretty useless for Canon DSLR owners who shoot RAW. It does have a lot of promise if the developers ever decide to go head to head with ACDsee and similar programs but for commercial or industrial use, it has considerable limitations.

But the new version supports RAW.

Povl H. Pedersen wrote:

In article , Ryadia wrote:

I had a look at Picassa some weeks ago. It is still on the family PC where their cameras all record in JPG. It’s pretty useless for Canon DSLR owners who shoot RAW. It does have a lot of promise if the developers ever decide to go head to head with ACDsee and similar programs but for commercial or industrial use, it has considerable limitations.

But the new version supports RAW.

Thank you for that. Now all I need to know is why does this version keep going to the Internet while it is cataloging my hard drive? The earlier version never did. Hmmm. Think I’ll put a trace on this one.

Doug

Clyde wrote:

It also doesn’t show Photoshop files saved as TIFF with Zip. That’s a big one for me, as that is my "working" format for single layer files.
Another annoyance is that you can’t tell it to use Photoshop for editing. As I have PS, I have no desire to edit anything in any other program.

So, what’s the point? It doesn’t show most of my files and won’t let me edit with my editor. I uninstalled it right away.

Clyde

Nothing ever beats straight forward practical and pragmatic realism

Nicely put Clyde!

Aerticeus

donster wrote:

Where can I find Picasa 8. Seems they skipped a few versions.

oh geeks.

8) seems to be an emoticon, doesnt it?