Best way to keep photos

[chiangrai]

Hi,

My photos get downloaded onto a windows download application and it's crap.

I'm with Firefox s I'm hoping that someone can recommend a good add on for keeping and viewing photos.

My wife has an old xp windows and her application is fine but mine is crap.

Thanks

[lopburi3]

Believe most use Google Picasa 3 program. It is free and will index everything on your computer and download from camera and can use for alblem/uploading to sky storage or sending and full normal edit functions. For most people this will do all you need.

[chiangrai]

Thanks for your reply,

I'm looking for something really simple,Idon't have a camera.

I'm looking for a simple gallery where I can store the pictures i download from the net pictures and view them when I want.

The one that comes with my VIsta is crap.

[NeverSure]

I just right-click on the picture and choose "save image" and then a box pops up so that I can surf to where I want it and even make a new folder if wanted.

I don't understand what more than that you need. ??

[chiangrai]

When I open with windows photo viewer i get what I want a copy of the photo and a place to click to view the next photo except that it's not a full screen image.

When I open with PAINT,I have to press two buttons to get a full screen view and no button to press to see the next photo.

I want a program that will open the photo on full screen and that has a button to press to view the next photo.

[MrGaoMungGawn]

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423575?hl=en

Why not use one of the apps in Google Drive.

This will do what you want and more,

But I am not sure how it works off line, you would need to try it.

Storage for 15 GB of files is free.

[lopburi3]

For a basic viewer this has been one of the most popular for the last decade and as I recall works well.

http://www.irfanview.com/

[Cloggie]

Maybe FastStone Image Viewer can help you - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

[Tywais]

Maybe FastStone Image Viewer can help you - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Agree with that one and is my primary. Picasa is OK, but find it more complicated than necessary and rarely use it anymore.

You mention an addon for FF so perhaps something like this is what you have in mind. Have not used it but has a good rating - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagetweak/

[MrGaoMungGawn]

Maybe FastStone Image Viewer can help you - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Agree with that one and is my primary. Picasa is OK, but find it more complicated than necessary and rarely use it anymore.

You mention an addon for FF so perhaps something like this is what you have in mind. Have not used it but has a good rating - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagetweak/

After seeing this, I just downloaded the FastStone onto a copy of Win7.

Picasa is no longer being supported for linux.

Since most people now seem to use Chrome, then would there not be something from the Chrome browser that would work on windows and linux.

[chiangrai]

Loburi3 has the best solution. I downloaded his link above and even I figured it out.

irfanview

That's me done Thank you very much

[dddave]

I also found PICASSA to be overly complex and WAYYYY too easy to accidentally share pictures with the world that you might not want to share..

[BigSkip]

Maybe FastStone Image Viewer can help you - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Great Program!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

After seeing this, I just downloaded the FastStone onto a copy of Win7.

Picasa is no longer being supported for linux.

Since most people now seem to use Chrome, then would there not be something from the Chrome browser that would work on windows and linux.

Picasa Linux version is no longer supported, but if you wish, you can make work under wine.

I'm using Picasa 3.9.0 kubuntu 13.10 on my main laptop.

I would not wish to change it to anything else.

[MILT]

I use DropBox. User friendly!

You can store all your photos and videos.

as well as office docs. It also allows you to share your content.

[hempa]

At www.flickr.com you get 1 terabyte of storage...should be enough for most people.

[Richard-BKK]

The best way to keep photos or movies for a long time is to buy a M-Disc DVD drive, they now-a-day cost the same as a normal DVD-writer (+/-490 to 550 THB), with this you can burn special M-DISC's which are garanteed to keep your data for 1000 years... Many national archives, US Military, and many others us them... I can tell this really works. you lay in the full "Thai" sun for days and they still play like nothing happened,,,, Or even heat them in the oven to over 160c degree (I could not resist to try).....

Check out the website http://www.mdisc.com/

Edited January 7, 2014 by Richard-BKK

[phuketrichard]

Photobucket gets my vote for a beginner, http://s1119.photobucket.com/

I use cs5 Photoshop and bridge

and lightroom 4.3

[sunnyk]

For viewing images in PC I've been using Irfan View from almost 10 years. It's small and free with the option to create slideshows from folders and many other features (resize, crop, enhance colors, bulk rename etc). For storing only SnapFish.com is one of the best. Using it for more than 6 years, unlimited storage unlike Flickr, GoogleDrive or Dropbox.

Edited January 7, 2014 by sunnyk

[Fullstop]

Stick 'em in Folders. Simple enough?

[MusV]

The one and only ... irfanview ... even bulk rename or size, date change, etc. Possible

[BB1955]

Try a program called Vue Print very simple and also is fee

[Wavnarok]

I just right-click on the picture and choose "save image" and then a box pops up so that I can surf to where I want it and even make a new folder if wanted.

I don't understand what more than that you need. ??

+1

[Showbags]

These photos you are downloading...make sure you label them correctly like pornbj, pornbi or pornxxx etc

[Africanteacher]

ACDSEE Programme is great

[BradinAsia]

My suggestion: Buy an Apple computer and your life will take a major upturn. And you get

iPhoto free. It's extremely simple, intuitive and reliable. Also, with an Apple computer you

won't need to go to school for 2 weeks to learn how to use the help menu...

[kevin2852]

I have tried and used all of the programs listed and have found that Picasa is the hardest one to live with because it is too powerful and in inexperienced hands, it can easily permanently delete pictures from the hard drive while pretending to remove them from Picasa display. This is an insane possibility, but it has cost hundreds of people their original pictures, I do not recommend it. if all you need to do is view pics, then why not just put them all in a discrete folder and set it's view properties to Xtra Large Icons, that will give you a 2 inch square thumbnail on the average wide screen then, of you specifically want a full page picture, right click and tab Open with, select microsoft picture Viewer and check the " Do this for all files in future " box. That should quickly and easily solve your problem. From then on, you just click and Viewer will open

[slipperylobster]

Photo FS Viewer is a free download and portable.

What this means to me, is that I just store all my photos on a thumb drive, along with that program. No installation is required, and you easily move from computer to computer and just plug it in, to have access.

Of course you need to "save" all your photos onto that thumb drive, and have Phot FS Viewer load that directorry by default. It would be nice for you to have the program run automatically, as soon as you put in the thumb drive. That requires a bit of preparation.

For my lady, we use a camera with a SD card. I saved FS Viewer in a folder on the SD Card and made it the default viewer. Her computer has a slot so she can remove the SD card from the camera, put it in the computer slot. It automatically opens to her photos. When she clicks on a photo, the viewer runs, by default.

[slipperylobster]

My suggestion: Buy an Apple computer and your life will take a major upturn. And you get

iPhoto free. It's extremely simple, intuitive and reliable. Also, with an Apple computer you

won't need to go to school for 2 weeks to learn how to use the help menu...

You will not have to buy a new computer or change much to access your photos easily. Just not cost effective. you have a minor problem. Apple computers are overpriced anyways.

[slipperylobster]

Lol...I could not figure out which way to turn my key in my old chevy in order to start it...so I bought a brand new Mercedes with voice recognititon. (Apple users are losing their computer savvy....they need to buy a new device and a new service from apple for every application they have.) Its called...job security at apple.