While searching for some negative reviews of Picasa the most common seemed to be the claim that it is difficult to use and that the frequent upgrades make it even more difficult. Although I haven't used it enough to discover this for myself, I did find the atomic learning site on picasa training to be very thorough. My first response to entering the site was a bit overwhelming, but this was largely due to fact that I didn't have any photos stored on my host computer and very few online for me to access.
The two features that grabbed my attention were the label and star system. With them, not only could I view Christmas photos, but also photos of each of my daughters with different searches. I also have the ability to rate the quality of a photo and then can choose to sort for only those with a certain star rating.
A second productive feature is the digital scrapbooking. With this feature, photos can be arranged in a collage and captions can be added. When Dr. Krug mentioned the ability to commercially print on their site, I expected to find a very small number of advertised supporting photo printers. However, I was pleasantly surprised to 15 different service providers: free enterprise-friendly. I like to give personalized gifts with photos on things such as mugs, water bottles and even cakes, so I think the picasa/picnik package with be a great combo to continue to help me in the is area.
Well done, nice writeup. :-)
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