Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

There’s no ebuild for Picasa in Portage yet, but installing Picasa by yourself is trivial. Just download the self-extracting binary, chmod 755 it, and run it. It politely installs itself into /opt/picasa, and very shortly you’re up and running.

Is the hype around Picasa is just a little out of proportion with what Picasa itself can do? As a free photo album and basic photo editor, it’s fine, but to say that Picasa is a viable alternative to Adobe Photoshop Elements (the baby edition of Adobe Photoshop) … well, maybe that’s true for a lot of folks, but it’s not true for me. I’ll be sticking with Photoshop Elements on Windows for the time being, and if you want to know why, continue reading below.

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