I am not a picture fanatic, but I do mostly use Picasa, and find it adequate for most purposes. I find the best feature is the printing where you can print different pictures on the same print paper page. The collage is a neat feature too. Like any other commonly recognized, user friendly, un-intrusive, free application one should try it and formulate a personal position. An unknown application is a whole different approach, and should be left to the intermediate or higher user. DA

"...how the heck could 3 mb be too large? Do you have any ideas?" I see two galleries, I've used neither. Trying them just now, they don't seem to get along with Firefox? I'm assuming this is the upload form you're using? http://photos.gardenweb.com/garden/galleries/upload.html If so, it does say "Make sure the image doesn't exceed 500 KB". That being the case, your images are around six time too large. I'm betting that if, as suggested by DA, you use Irfanview to downsize them first, they'll upload fine. BTW, the uploader that's available here in these forums(not the gallery) allows a full "5000 k". It resizes the images to make them more bandwidth friendly. Although it's been a very long time since I've been on dial-up, I remember it being excruciatingly slow. Loading a page containing even a single 3 MiB image would have probably given me time to go brew a pot of coffee, come back and drink a cup. Am I remembering it being worse than it really was? At about 3 KiB/s download speed(I lived way out in the sticks) it would have taken how long? Maybe 1024 secs? 17 minutes? Maybe my math is not precise but the point is that although 3 MiB is small for those with high-speed Internet, for those on dial-up it's really huge.

Looks like #1, #3 and #5 are liked the most. But #5 is the most popular. Thank you all for giving me your opinions. Sandyslopes, I would provide you with the original photo of #2 to do a comparison, but my pictures are so disorganized that I can't find it!

Tell me a little about PhotoScape. Some of the things I like about Picasa are that it can search your computer for photos, you can tell it where to search, you can change the date of the photo, it's fast. You can also use facial recognition. I also have (and use) Lightroom and Photoshop, but they are slow and expensive and much more complicated to use.