Image viewers round up: Picasa, ACDSee and JetPhoto Studio. Which one to pick?

With the rise of digital cameras, users were in need of application to manage and view their photos since it can be quite messy to store loads and loads of photos. We can properly organize our photos and images by creating albums and view in different ways, plus we can add some effects and post them on the web –among other things. The three contenders are: Picasa, ACDSee and JetPhoto Studio.

Let´s have a look at some of the features of these three popular image viewers. Let´s get started with Picasa, another great creation from Google which –as well as other software from Google- surprised users around the world and quickly gained worldwide popularity due to its user-friendly interface and its wide range of features. Among the multiple possibilities Picasa delivers for managing digital photographs, it´s important to highlight the possibility of importing image from several devices including digital cameras. We can also create slideshow presentations from a group of selected images, record a Picasa CD/DVD gift and make backups.
Moreover, this program has a photo editor of its own and a video player, though they have basic functions and lack advanced user features.

Passing on to JetPhoto Studio, it´s a viewer which doesn´t feature a fast image viewing (and it should) but presents a fully-features slideshow function. Among other things, JetPhoto Studio organizes your photos by notes you add, keyword tags you choose, camera EXIF information, by time, and by geographical location. Searching, filtering or sorting is done using this information.

All in all, we can say that Picasa is the fastest image viewer. In fact, many users have replaced Picasa over the default Windows image viewer.

All viewers nowadays feature several image editing effects such as: brightness and contrast adjustment, red-eye, lightning, blur and other tools and effects.
Once again, Picasa stands out by allowing users to design and print beautiful photo collages, create fun video slideshows, add photo text or view your favorite photos on your desktop or screensaver.

You can upload images to the web with any of these viewers (with Picasa you can even add geo-tags to your photos so that you can remember exactly where they’re from using Google Maps) though JetPhoto Studio is also an efficient desktop photo organizer for flickr users. You can edit tags, descriptions, geo data for photos or sets of photos on your computer and then you can post your organized pictures onto Flickr with just one click.

With most image viewers, you also have the possibility of importing image from several devices (such as mobiles) including digital cameras. The same goes for slideshow presentations which can be created from a group of selected images and then burn them into a CD or DVD. In this case ACDSee is the winner. You can use ACDSee’s Burn Basket to create a CD or DVD of your photos and files, or to create specially formatted discs that you can watch on your television.

All things considered, Picasa as well as JetPhoto Studio and ACDSee are all great image viewers and managers. Still, Picasa and ACDSee are both equally good. For those used to organizing images and photos, Picasa delivers an amazing alternative combining functionality, simplicity and web integration. ACDSee on the other hand, provides more features and tools for advanced users.

Picasa is an application that enables us to organize all our pictures and photos in one place. You can also turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more . For this reason we introduce you to Picasa, the easiest easy way to find, edit, and share your photos.

Picasa

Thanks to the boom of digital cameras, a large amount of images and photos can be stored in your Mac, requiring a tool to manage and easily access them. Currently, Picasa may be the most used application to do it due to its wide range of features, web support and of course, its simplicity.

When running Picasa for the time, we can notice that most of its features are automated since a search box is provided to look for image files such as JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, PNG, BMP, RAW, GIF and PNG, as well as video formats MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV and MOV.

All the content found will be organized by the so-called “Library View”, where albums and folders are added so we can modify them to our liking, specifying which images or folders should be displayed. Another interesting feature is managing labels, enabling users to group and organize images according to their own personal taste.

Among the multiple possibilities Picasa delivers for managing digital photographs, it´s important to highlight the possibility of importing image from several devices including digital cameras. We can also create slideshow presentations from a group of selected images, record a Picasa CD/DVD gift and make backups. Moreover, this program has a photo editor of its own and a video player, though they have basic functions and lack advanced user features.

Another feature worth mentioning is Picasa´s own album manager called “Web Albums”, enabling users to upload their favorite photos and videos. In case you are a blog administrator within this website, you can also add photos to Blogger straight from the program. As for name tags, we can include “geotags” (geographical tags) letting you match your photos to a specific location using Google Earth.

Picasa features a wide range of configuration options for advanced users familiarized with photos managing and in-depth functions.

In short, for those used to organizing images and photos, Picasa delivers an amazing alternative combining functionality, simplicity and web integration.

A very common thing nowadays is to store a large amount of photos in our drives. Due to the boom of digital cameras, scanners and the possibility to download images from the internet, managing and storing these types of files has become a tedious task, but Picasa is here to do the job.

Upload albums to the web with Picasa

That is the main reason why some application were developed to keep your photos organized so can manage and manipulate them easily, but there´s more. We introduce you Picasa, an application that apart from store and managing your photos, you can also upload them to the internet so you can share them with your friends. We´ll now explain the whole process.

The first thing to do upon running the application is to register. Now, go to the menu bar located on the lower portion of the screen, select “Web Album” and follow the steps in order to complete your registration.

Once we are through with the registration process, we´ll be able to start creating our albums.

Before we begin, take into account that the albums you´ll upload can be created manually, meaning that you can choose photos from different folders, or else choose a folder including images and set it as album.

We´ll begin by explaining how to create an album choosing photos from different folders. First, click on the photos or images you want to add to an album and once images are selected to the menu found on the lower left portion of the screen.

The selected image it will be displayed in the selection box and by clicking on “hold selected items” the photo will be stored. Select another image and repeat the process as many as we want to create an album.

When we are done with the photo selection –all the photos we want to upload to the album- we´ll see that the new album is together with all the other folders. Now, right-click on that album and choose “Upload to Web Albums” and a new window will appear. Next, we´ll give the album a name as well as settings up several configurations and options. When it´s done, click on accept and the album will be automatically uploaded. When the album finished uploading, click on “View online” and it will take us to the website where our album is stored.

All that remains is explaining how to set an entire folder an as album. This is simpler since all we need to do is to click on the folder and then press the “Album web” icon.

A new window will be displaying enabling us to set the album´s name and we´ll repeat the previous process. As we can see, all albums are uploaded and organized in the website so we can share them with our friends.

Those were the steps you must follow in order to upload your photos organized into albums. Though Picasa may seem difficult to use at the beginning due to its great deal of features, in the long run you´ll realize it´s quite simple and you´ll get the hang of it in no time. Following the above-mentioned steps you will be able to upload your favorite photos quickly and easily.

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