Welcome back, Gwyn Hopefully we'll enjoy some photos soon?

Sorry Bob, it was a typo; yes I meant Linux

The problem is that there's no MS Windows version; there are some ways to run it on Windows, but I never tried.

For now I mainly use Picasa; I save my all pictures in 3 folder trees: RAW, Unprocessed, Processed, one subfolder per date, then I describe them in Picasa (or gThumb, which I also use as a quick viewer in Linux). The good thing is that Picasa stores descriptions in EXIF tags (or it seems so), so they are available for other apps as well. For now I do not tag my pictures in Picasa, although I'm tempted by Picasa's face recognition feature. Picasa also allows grouping pictures in albums, synchronise them with web (automatically resizing to a predefined size), burning CDs with presentation. Not too bad for a freebie. But as I said, I'd like to have some more features.

Why cannot I have at least 48-hour day? I need more time!

Bob,

I also use Picasa, however I already found I'd be happy having some additional functionalities. I even thought about creating my own album application, but I still have no time for it

Picasa is a bit sluggish for one. Then it's not that easy to title / tag a mass of pictures. It does not support unicode - sometimes international descriptions won't work.

Then there's no way to treat multiple pictures as one. What I mean is - imagine I have the original picture in RAW, then jpg, then P&P version 1 and 2. They should have the same description / tags etc - but you cannot do that, you have to describe / tag each one individually.

One of the best applications I found was KPhotoAlbum (Linux), but it's not integrated in any way with Picasa (Web), so I couldn't auto-upload / synchronise my albums.

I have to get old, retire and then finally write my own album app

Nice kitty I'd leave as it is too.

I think one of the reasons the RAW competition is so popular is its novelty. Also, it helps learning how to 'save' or 'improve' a taken picture which would be binned otherwise.

Regarding weekly / fortnightly competitions, I did not take a part yet in any. Partly, because I often feel my pictures are not good enough, then sometimes I lack some time to take / prepare any. And there's another reason - I'm pretty scared I could win - in which situation (however unlikely) I'd be a judge for the next one and I always had problems writing reviews, essays etc (ie why did I like a film? I have no idea, I just did)...

Nice and sharp shots. #3 and #7 are really funny, I like them, shame that #7 is a bit noisy (seems to be oversharpened?)

Hello and welcome

It seems to be a nice park I'm not sure if the second picture is a little too much yellow-cast, however it's so nice and warm then And #1 is my favourite

Nice And the colours are fantastic.

Hello Mike and welcome