[Lt Major Burns]

i installed Picassa for my families pc. it's bloody amazing. it's lightning fast, and has lots of really nice elegant effects (rotating an image, for example, the photo rotates animatedly, it's really nice, and not at all distracting), the filters to add to photo's are also really powerful, and real-time. a good one to play with is soft-focus, it gives you a blur which gradually gets more blurry from the centre-point out, with the centre point being clear. you put that on someones head to look really bloody good, and you can just drag it around the photo as it instantly blurs in varying levels... scrubbing through 2000 photo's was a lot faster, and a lot smoother than my iphoto (i run dual 1.8ghz G5 with 2gb ram and a 128mb Radeon, they run a 1.6ghz P4 dell thing with 768mb ram).

Picassa is very impressive stuff.