# Recommend some free photo organising software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400 "2007-03-25T04:43:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400/1 "2007-03-25T04:43:12Z")

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Hi, I have Photoshop Elements that I like for editing, but I’m looking for an alternative to its organising software. Any recommendations?

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**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400/2 "2007-03-25T04:56:10Z")

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Picasa[Picasa](http://picasa.google.com/)

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400/3 "2007-03-25T05:31:50Z")

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For free, I don’t think anything beats Picasa.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400/4 "2007-03-25T13:11:37Z")

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Picasa

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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-free-photo-organising-software/397400/5 "2007-03-25T18:50:44Z")

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On the strength of this thread, I hooked it up.

As an album displayer, it is very good.

To just hot link to a single picture to insert in a post, it is a bit cumbersome and slow. It does have lots of room and I really like the Linux interface, I have been wanting something for my ‘Ubuntu’ machine. This works good.

For doing single picture ‘hot links’ I prefer other sites that upload and download faster for me and you and I have found nothing that will work pictures as fast and easy as ‘IrfanView’ for the type of posting I do. Unfortunately it works in Windows and has no Linux version. ☹

YMMV