Picasa 2 vs Photoshop Elements 3.0

Danny Sullivan at searchenginewatch.com has written an interesting article comparing the features of Google's new Picasa 2 and Adobe's new Photoshop Elements 3.0. The executive summary: photo management software should embed it's tag/label information in the image IPTC data of each image. Picasa 2 does not do this, so you're labels are lost if you move to a different management software. Photoshop Elements 3.0 does this (but you cannot change the labels later -- bummer). Picasa is, overall, easier to use, and it's free, while Elements is more powerful and $100. Mr. Sullivan is staying with Adobe's offering for now.