Picasa 3.8 Build 117.41

Rated 20/50 by DoHickey at Feb 26, 2010

instead of adding things, why don't they take out that continual scan & start up scan thing. When you have thousands upon thousands of images in different folders, this thing takes forever after install. I just don't like it, never have. And unless they take that start up scan away, I never will. I'm not going to try this program anymore. I also had trouble after editing photos. It wants to save it as another file altogether giving me multiples of the same photo. I don't like to configure things to death to get them to do what I want.

Rated 10/50 by FatBastard at Mar 24, 2010

It sucks...

Rated 30/50 by boelectronic at Apr 14, 2010

it WAS good... no more now... I liked it, face detection was great, but in last 2-3 updates it getting worse. too buggy, they are ruining Picasa instead of improve it. also lack of photo editing like resize and crop is not what I can ignore.

Rated 40/50 by ZoltarSpeaks at Apr 14, 2010

Hey DoHickey - Why don't you try to learn the program instead of just dissing it. There is a configuration option for *EVERY FOLDER* to change it to "Scan Once" or "Scan Always" (the default) and even an option to disable the new "Face Recognition" option on a FOLDER BY FOLDER basis. I love Picasa. Everyone I show how easy it is to use, loves it. My only gripe is the lack of controls over where the thumbnails/database is stored. I have 200,000 stock photos loaded in Picasa. The database/thumbnails is 50GB large.

Rated 40/50 by Vimes at Apr 14, 2010

I have always enjoyed using this. I do wish that you could configure the compression used when saving files which have been adjusted, as they are compressed too much.

Rated 10/50 by gawd21 at Apr 24, 2010

More Google spyware!

Rated 50/50 by driver8 at May 7, 2010

Well, I'm still a big fan of Picasa, and glad to see continued development. It's a very responsive & intuitive image database, and great for quick & simple edits. Looking forward to trying the new drag-n-drop collage feature. In future, I would like to see: - better sharpening tool - addition of denoise - star-rating expanded to 1-5 - movie slideshow needs much improvement - compatibility with PS plugins would be great, too ! Version 3.6, Build 105.65 - May 5, 2010 Drag and drop in Collage Maker for Mosaic, Frame Mosaic, and Grid. Version 3.6, Build 105.61 - April 13, 2010 Increased stability through multiple crash fixes. Fixed translation errors. Several backup fixes including: Disk-to-disk backup Filtering previously backed up folders Selecting the correct backup set in list

Rated 10/50 by DoHickey at Aug 18, 2010

For ( ZoltarSpeaks ) There is no way to stop it from doing the scan at the first start after install. It should prompt you when you run the program the first time and not just do it on it's own. Have you tried to find all the little files it makes in all your folders from doing that? Drive pace is big deal with me, even though I have a lot of drive space, I like to keep an eye on the way a program uses drive space. I have looked around at all the configuration settings. You assume that people don't investigate things, but we do. I don't like it when a program runs amok doing all kinds of things when you first install it. Right out of the box it should prompt you to do things without taking control & you have to configure the hell out of it later. Xnview has this crap beat & it doesn't spy on you by sending info to a server.

Rated 50/50 by Vimes at Sep 16, 2010

Excellent product with a great range of easy to use tools. Much better than any of the others that I have used.

Rated 20/50 by KSzostek at Sep 30, 2010

Very disappointing been using Picsa a long time but I have changed to Windows live photo gallery beta, WOW what a nice program run circles around Picasa.

Rated 10/50 by Blaxima at Sep 30, 2010

Very poor image enhancements and like DoHickey said, there is no way to turn off the scanning and subsequent files created because of the scan. It will create these files where ever you have an image file and that even includes program folders that have a little splash screen image. that is really, really lame

Rated 50/50 by budzis at Oct 3, 2010

Much better then Live Photo manager

Rated 10/50 by Hilbert at Oct 22, 2010

A perfectly useful product totally ruined by enforced scanning. Picasa on any PC that more than a 'grandma's machine' causes all sorts of problems, especially if you store images, backup etc. outside 'My Documents'. We really do need to bring back the stocks and pillories for the control freaks who write such stuff.

Rated 40/50 by extremely well at Dec 8, 2010

Version 3.8 Build 117.24 November 16, 2010 ?Fixed various translation issues. ?Face Movies now correctly display captions. Build 117.16 - October 20, 2010 ?Now available in 38 languages. Build 115.66 - September 29, 2010 ?Fixed "Manage Online Contacts" 403 errors. ?Fixed corrupt metadata bug. ?Fixed various Face Movie crashes. ?NEF files appear again for mass storage devices on Windows 7. Build 115.53 - September 15, 2010 ?Fixed problems upgrading facetags from 3.6 and several other issues with cropped/rotated files. ?Fixed importing from scanners issue in Windows 7. ?Fixed screensaver issues with cropped pictures and captions not displaying. ?Fixed broken EXIF rotation and zoom in Photo Viewer. ?Create a Face Movie from a selection of photos in the tray (instead of using the entire Person Album). ?Original file jpeg quality preserved when saving from Picnik. ?Color Management is now turned off by default. ?Increased stability through multiple crash fixes. Build 115.45 - August 17, 2010 ?Added Face Movie to create face-aligned movies for named contacts. ?Added Batch Upload (via Tools > Batch Upload) to allow you to take bulk actions on your photos: upload, change options, and remove online photos. ?Added Picnik online photo-editing to the Basic Fixes tab. ?Added Color Management to support color profiles. ?Added the Properties panel to view EXIF data and improve support for XMP metadata. ?Added support for uploading photo order to Picasa Web for manually re-ordered photos. ?Added an option to upload people album thumbnails to Google Contacts.

Rated 40/50 by SilverFox2006 at Dec 8, 2010

For folks that have speed issues have you discovered the tools options folder management feature that you can limit what gets scanned?

Rated 30/50 by some guy at Mar 3, 2011

I like it but please give a choice to scan nothing during installation .

Rated 10/50 by SoundMix at Mar 3, 2011

Changed to Windows Live Photo Gallery and not looking back.

Rated 40/50 by Vimes at Mar 6, 2011

I thoroughly enjoy using this application. I just wish that it would guarantee not to compress my jpeg files after you make changes. I know that it does save the originals but when I have used the correction tools I am happy to save the revised version but do not want to have the compression done (85% IIRC)