If you use a Mac and shoot digital photos, you should be using Apple iPhoto to manage them. But my mom — who, for reasons unknown (despite numerous major problems with Windows over the years) — has yet to switch to a Mac. Since she asked for help backing up her photos, I needed to find a Windows iPhoto-equivalent…which I assumed didn’t exist.
Well, for the most part, it does: Google Picasa is a very cool, simple, and free (!) digital photo management tool for Windows (there’s no Mac version). It organizes your photos, has basic editing tools (cropping, red eye removal, lighting & color effects), and makes it easy to email pictures, order prints, and burn CDs. Since it’s free and owned by Google, it’s definitely worth checking out.
