I'm hoping to do some basic image editing, mainly cropping and resizing.
But I don't want to sign my life over with Picasa saying, "Yes, Google, please 'manage' all of my photos everywhere on all of my hard drives for me; please become my default image viewer in a cluttered image editor; please save over my originals when I make edits; please don't offer me trivial and useless features like 'Save As'; and please make all image settings really difficult to find by hiding all but the most basic tools!"
Surely there must be another free alternative?