text: Our one complaint, however, relates to that virtual-album paradigm. If you load an entire folder of photos from your hard drive or a camera's media card and then create an album with a name different from the folder's original one, all the pics end up in two separate albums—one with each name. That can be confusing, and it certainly creates more clutter than you need.
  Other than that, the EasyShare tool is well-designed, intuitive, and effective. It's a bit on the simple side, though. So while you'll find a fair number of editing tools—which let you crop, rotate, adjust color balance, remove red-eye, and even add effects—you don't have the editing freedom you get from a more complex consumer-level tool such as Picasa, which is also free.
  Sharing photos on the gallery is completely free, but to get your own dedicated photo-sharing site and URL, you have to pay $24.99 a year for a "premiere" account. When you share with others, the service sends them new links to each album. To view images, the people you're sharing with must join, which is free—but unless they have premiere accounts, they won't be able to download images in the original resolutions. In that case—not surprisingly—Kodak encourages them to order prints.
  If you want the best consumer photo-management and sharing app on the market, go with Picasa. Other applications may be more powerful, but they're harder to use and far more expensive (free is hard to beat). But Picasa's advanced tools, such as layering, may be beyond some new users. If you're looking for something simpler, try EasyShare—whether you own a Kodak camera or not.