Re: Free photo editor/manager

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From: Paul Ballou (A26milerunner_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:19:44 -0600

You can't prove it by me that they are necessary. No other program I have
used that is similar leaves files in image folders so why should picasa be
any different therefore the files are unnecessary as far as I'm concerned. 

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"Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> wrote in message 
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> The program does not leave unnecessary files on your computer.
>
> For those who are interested in Picasa:
>
> The program makes one file in each photo folder, after you edit the first
> photo file. The file name will be picasa.ini and it can be viewed if the
> folder option is set to view hidden file. You can open it and see how 
> Picasa
> is saving your edited changes.
> The nice thing about this added file (extremely small size) is that it
> contains all the changes made to all the photos in the folder. Picasa does
> NOT change original files as you edit them, it only codes the changes made
> for each photo and stores the changes in the picasa.ini file. So when
> original photo files are opened with Picasa (after editing with Picasa), 
> the
> edited photos are seen with all the editing and because everything is 
> coded
> every change made can be undone, one by one.
> This is great for printing at home. After the editing is done, just print.
> No need to save the edited file because when you open it again in Picasa 
> you
> get the edited file back. A lot easier than having to save edited files. 
> And
> if you want to save the edited file you can, hit save copy and the edited
> file is added to the folder, same name as the original file, with 1 added 
> at
> the end. All done automatically.
>
>
> "Paul Ballou" <A26milerunner@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> And the program leaves unnecessary files all over your computer in every
>> folder you have images.
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Ballou
>> MVP Office
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>> http://office.microsoft.com/home
>>
>> Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
>> control.
>>
>> "Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> wrote in message
>> news:%23c0Agdk$EHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> > The newer version (2.0) of Picasa is available at:
>> > www.picasa.com
>> >
>> > It is free. It does a nice job of basic photo editing and provides a
> nice
>> > time line approach to find your photos.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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