

There are also other alternatives to Picasa. Alternatives to PicasaĪs an alternative to Picasa, Google recommends using their Google Photos service to create albums, share photos, edit photos, and search your photos. Picasa software no longer works online, however, so you will not be able to add or sync albums or individual photos.Picassa is also available for Mac. It is fully compatible with Windows 10 although there won't be any new updates made.

Picasa Web Albums, a companion service, was closed in May 2016.ĭespite this, Picasa is still available and continues to work anywhere it's already installed.

In February 2016, however, Google announced it was discontinuing support for Picasa Desktop and Web Albums. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as freeware. Picasa was created by a company named Lifescape in 2002. Windows Movie Maker 2.Although it is now discontinued, Picasa is still available to download and use offline.So I went hunting for free video editing software and found Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista or Windows 7! I downloaded and installed on Windows 7 SP1 with no issues and was back in business with basic editing capabilities. Windows Movie Maker Live lacks a Timeline which is a key element in any video editing software. Movie Maker Live is good for quick and dirty work and for your great great grandma but as I found out it’s not capable of very simple tasks such as overlaying photos on top of an audio track. Windows Movie Maker Live may be good for bare bones basics – it’s a simplified (dumbed down) version of Movie Maker due to user feedback according to Microsoft. Microsoft had moved Movie Maker, Email, Messenger and Photo Gallery to a new web based collection of apps known as Windows Live Essentials. Microsoft had stopped development of Windows Movie Maker after Windows Vista so I hadn’t used it in a few years. Stumped by limitations of Windows Movie Maker Live I went in search of an alternate free video editing program.
