Cover that eye! Cover that frozen eye!

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I've been taking recommendations for the photo guide, particularly photo management and processing software — for when you've got a hundred two-megabyte five-megapixel images to put up, and you don't have that much web space and no-one cares about the full resolution anyway. And you still have to fix the red eye and so forth.

I was told Google Picasa was shockingly usable and technophobe-friendly, and there's a Linux version, which has a one-click install for Ubuntu. So I gave it a go.

Favourite feature: The red eye repair interface is as simple as it could possibly get and seems to actually work really well. Editing in general is fantastically easy; it's just the thing for the amateur photographer who really can't be bothered turning themselves into a Photoshop jockey. Also, the browsing interface is remarkably accessible and much less of a pain in the arse than using Konqueror (which is in turn much less of a pain in the arse than Windows Explorer, even in XP).

Bad point: Don't use it to download pics directly from the camera — it may not preserve Exif information (all the shooting data about the image). This is stupid, annoying and a dealbreaker for me; everything else does it fine and I don't see why Picasa can't. So I'll be sticking to digiKam for that one.

I hope the digiKam developers get Picasa, use it lots and work out how to make editing as ridiculously easy on digiKam.

Anyone else used Picasa?