For those of you with a digital camera, a pile of images and unhappiness over how you organize and process them, try Google's Picasa 2.0 software package. I've been playing around with this totally free download for about a week, and in my view it beats Adobe's Photoshop Album hands down, despite the latter costing $50 to download.
Not only does Picasa run faster and do a better job of fixing common photo problems (the "I'm feeling lucky" button does a great job 80% of the time) but it also supports Nikon RAW files, something that's been an enormous source of annoyance in the past with other organizing programs. Now I don't have to shoot seperate RAW and JPEG files -- I can just shoot raw, transfer into Picasa, and export nice JPEGs from there. Less memory used, more speed, less hassle.
Highly recommended. It's free -- how can you go wrong?
