I started using Picasa after a friend recommended it to me. Beyond basic photo enhancement, Picasa offers quite a few photo editing choices including adding text and frames, resizing, and more. It is easy to use and I particularly like the variety of collages that one can make in Picasa. There is one thing that I don't like about Picasa and that is that it wants to pull in ALL photos that reside on your computer. To me that is not only annoying but also unnecessary as I do not want nor need to edit every single photo in my photo database. Frankly, I also don't understand how it files photos after they are in Picasa, it's a bit of mystery to me. For this reason, I'm giving it only three stars.