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NO Gimp, YES Picasa 2 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:57:45 -0200 Published: 25 Oct 2007 Published: 2:57 pm Categories: Linux & Open Source • Web 2.0 Tags:
       

While all Linux blogs are talking about new Gimp 2.4, I’m very happy with Picasa.

Yes, I know they have different purposes but Picasa does everything I need with my photos. It is intuitive, powerful, extremely easy to use, fast and nice.

You may say F-Spot is the OSS equivalent but I couldn’t spend more than 15 minutes using it before giving up.

Thanks to Picasa, my last trip photos are really shining, much more than previous Kuickshow+Gimp combination of tools, much faster too.

And did I mention they also provide a Linux version for Picasa ?

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  2 Responses to “NO Gimp, YES Picasa”

#1
Matt October 26, 2007

Picasa 2 works nice with Wine as well if you are interested. Picasa 2 has the added feature of uploading images to webalbums.

#2
Russell October 26, 2007

Perhaps you should take a look at digiKam. Picasa plucked my last nerve because I could never get it to do what I wanted. F-Spot I’ll agree isn’t even close yet. digiKam with the kipi plugins installed kicked Picasa all over the playground. I especially like the advanced crop tools.

http://www.digikam.org
http://www.kipi-plugins.org

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