Windows 10: Picasa Photo Viewer alternative?

Discus and support Picasa Photo Viewer alternative? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; For people who have used Picasa photo viewer in the past or currently. Have you found an alternative? or anything close to it? Why Picasa is my go to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/theverifiedthug, Jul 19, 2020.

  1. /U/THEVERIFIEDTHUG
    /u/theverifiedthug Win User

    Picasa Photo Viewer alternative?


    For people who have used Picasa photo viewer in the past or currently. Have you found an alternative? or anything close to it?

    Why Picasa is my go to for 13-14 years - It is extremely fast, light weight and smooth. It feels like an Apple product made by mistake by Google. It loads every picture in the album neatly in less than a second. It has never crashed on me ever. I wish Google never stopped supporting it. Definitely one of their best products ever.

    I now use a lot of .webp images and .png (it works on Picasa but not great) for my work which unfortunately it doesn't support. And I was wondering if anyone has an alternative to this?

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    /u/theverifiedthug, Jul 19, 2020
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  2. DAVIDA23
    DavidA23 Win User

    Direct equivalent to Picasa Photo Viewer?


    You know, for years using Windows (Since Windows 3) I've always ignored Windows built in apps and gone off & found alternatives.
    So as usual for me, when I installed Windows 10 I immediately went off and installed Picasa as a photo viewer.
    But after the suggestion by Steve C that the built-in Photos app is quite good I tried it.
    And he's right, it is pretty good and an excellent replacement for Picasa Photo Viewer. Thanks Steve.


    As I mentioned in my post I already use Lightroom, Bridge & Photoshop & Bridge is far more of a photo organiser than a viewer - far to bloated for a simple viewer.


    Thanks. All of these are applications that do much more than a viewer. Yes, so is Picasa but I only ever use the stand-alone Photo Viewer.


    So Photos is the answer I was looking for. Now, all I need to find is a method of changing the slideshow speed (something that Picasa Photo Viewer lacked).


    Thank you all for your help.
     
    DavidA23, Jul 19, 2020
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  3. DAVIDA23
    DavidA23 Win User
    Direct equivalent to Picasa Photo Viewer?


    In fact Photos is better than Picasa Photo Viewer in that it directly plays videos as well, the 'Collection' option is also pretty good.
    What a pleasant surprise.
     
    DavidA23, Jul 19, 2020
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  4. DAVIDA23
    DavidA23 Win User

    Picasa Photo Viewer alternative?

    Direct equivalent to Picasa Photo Viewer?


    This has been asked many times around the net but I've yet to find a suitable answer.
    I have thousands of photos and currently I use Picasa Photo Viewer when viewing photos in Win 10 Explorer.
    It's (IMO) an excellent, non-intrusive & very fast way to view my pics.
    You don't need to open any application other than Explorer, just set Windows to use Photo Viewer as a default.
    It will also slideshow your photo folder and zoom in & out using just the mouse wheel.
    Although Picasa has a photo organiser and editor I never use them, preferring Lightroom, Bridge & Photoshop.
    But now I hear that Google is retiring it in favour of Google+ which is a totally different thing.


    I just wasted another half hour trying to answer this question via Search, found the question posed many times &
    been disappointed with the answers.
    Does anyone know of anything which is a direct equivalent?
     
    DavidA23, Jul 19, 2020
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