Replace Picasa with what? I am not good at all with computers so PS/LR and so are above me but I was able to do some things in Picasa. Now that Google has stopped their support, I...

SubVet Loc: New Port Richey, FL

I am not good at all with computers so PS/LR and so are above me but I was able to do some things in Picasa. Now that Google has stopped their support, I cannot send my pictures at all via my Gmail or Hotmail accounts. I dumped some into Google photos and not having any luck editing them or emailing them as well.

I need a good simple program that I do not have to spend days or weeks learning because of time and I only shoot occasionally.

Thanks,
Bobby
SubVet

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Look at Faststone.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

I've used PhotoShop Elements for a long time and I'm still learning its features. Because of your stipulations, I would not recommend using it (even though it is a great program). I hope you get some good advice here.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

kpmac wrote:

Look at Faststone.

Agree and it's free! There are several here:
https://www.faststone.org/

The one at the bottom specifically mentions resizer, which will be helpful for emailing. I don't know if you can email from Fastone but the OP should learn how to attach photos to email messages without going through other software. That knowledge will often come in handy!

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

Photoshop Elements has a "Quick" protocol in which you just load your file and pick from presented options. I have no idea what Picasa was or did, but I don't think you can get much simpler than what I just described. You don't really get exceptional output, just better than you started with, but I would think that after playing with it for a while you would be able to move up to "Guided," whether you ever fell up to "Expert," or not.

Picdude Loc: Ohio

Irfanview is another free software program that has been used by many UHH users here

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

SubVet wrote:

I am not good at all with computers so PS/LR and so are above me but I was able to do some things in Picasa. Now that Google has stopped their support, I cannot send my pictures at all via my Gmail or Hotmail accounts. I dumped some into Google photos and not having any luck editing them or emailing them as well.

I need a good simple program that I do not have to spend days or weeks learning because of time and I only shoot occasionally.

Thanks,
Bobby
SubVet

Well, if you could do nice things in Picasa, then you can do nice things in PS, its a straight forward and easy program!

Wanderer2 Loc: Colorado Rocky Mountains

I've used Faststone and agree it's a good free program. I've also used PSE and, as stated above, it can be easy if you use the basic level, and there's no subscription, although there is a charge for each yearly update. I currently use Affinity Photo and have found it's an excellent combination of a gentle learning curve, which I very much need, and a very high level of capability. It's not free, there being a one time fee of $50 (covers future updates), and there is a free trial period. Hope this is of some help.

MikeMck Loc: Southern Maryland on the Bay

I still use Picasa 3. I love it.

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Use Google Photos, it has a basic but quite good editor and it stores your photos free although with a limit on the resolution.

miked46 Loc: Winter Springs, Florida

I loved using Picasa, it always did the trick for me.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

miked46 wrote:

I loved using Picasa, it always did the trick for me.

Why not continue to use Picasa? You can't upgrade it any longer but you can still use it? I know what you mean, it WAS a simple editor pretty full of editing jpeg photos. I don't remember but I believe it also did RAW?? Have you upgraded your computer and can't download it anymore?

Try this? https://youtu.be/430jJDXyNa0

jonsailhob

To email your photos from Picasa, export those to your desktop and from there to Google Photos or Dropbox or whatever you would have used before. File sizes will be large, importing into Google Photos is an easy way to then email or share.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

Or this seems to work to download: https://picasa.en.uptodown.com/windows/download

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

SubVet wrote:

I am not good at all with computers so PS/LR and so are above me but I was able to do some things in Picasa. Now that Google has stopped their support, I cannot send my pictures at all via my Gmail or Hotmail accounts. I dumped some into Google photos and not having any luck editing them or emailing them as well.

I need a good simple program that I do not have to spend days or weeks learning because of time and I only shoot occasionally.

Thanks,
Bobby
SubVet

How about this, since you still have Picasa.
1. Select a folder of images or one image from within Picasa.
2. From File use the option- Export Image to Folder
3. Put the folder on your desktop.
4. Open up Gmail
5. Attach you image (s)from the folder on your desktop
6. Send

Good luck,
Mark