For example, when I zoom-in from one point on the photo, it centers that point and does the zooming in a smooth, non-step way.

So there is a continuity to whatever is being done. The following are the UI features I liked in Picasa Photo Viewer. What I am looking is for an image viewer that opens up on clicking an image file in the windows explorer. Are there any newer Photo viewers that resembles the Picasa Photo Viewer interface?

I like its UI very much (I have no interest in photo organisation and cloud storages).īut Picasa has been off-development for a long time. Unfortunately it forgets this as soon as I close XY and open it again later.For many years I've been installing Picasa on my computers only so that I can use its photo viewer. So the process of just opening Win Explorer in the background and pasting in the folder path seems to do something that tells XY to use the correct sort order of name>ascending. Even though I've specified sort order for all folders and sub folders as name>ascending.īut if I then open Win Explorer and just copy the folder path from XY and paste it into Win Explorer (and not even do anything else) when I now open the photo again from XY, it's now in the correct sort order.

But if I use XY, it's got a weird sorting order (don't know if it's date created/modified or something). And if I open the 1st photo in a folder from Win Explorer, it correctly appears as the 1st sorted image in Picasa. The only problem is it doesn't respect my specified sort order if I open an image from XY.Īll my photos are sorted in exactly the same way in both Win Explorer and XY, i.e. I know it's been discontinued by Google but I still use Picasa photo viewer, just because it works perfectly for what I need.

Picasa photo viewer only