Image organising / processing - Uhm Picasa?

[Macavity]

Recently (see below) I've been making an effort to sort out image files.

During "research", I came across the [to me] rather excellent Picasa 3!

It seems to anticipate (does) pretty much everything I was hoping.

But it seems commonly understood that this stuff is moving to "Google+

images"... and / or Picasa might not be around for longterm future? 

Anyone else invested in Picasa for image management? Do we worry?

Have you thought about / now use alternative (free / budget) software?

For what it's worth, I'm not awfully bothered about "Google images". 

No "evil empire" concern, just I'm finding Picasa great for my *offline* 

organisation of images - I sense Flikr will suffice for a subset of them! 

Picasa is rather good for for making videos of my images too...

Wryly noting that Youtube login is initially via Goole+ now? 

P.S. Much as I appreciate the facilities afforded by "linked flat files"

- Central to Flikr (Wordpress!), I still crave hierachical storage...

[Vox45]

No answers ? That's pretty rare on this forum

So what solution did you end up with ?