

The fact that Google Photos ignores tags/keywords, captions and comments is mind boggling. "However, for those of you who don’t want to use Google Photos or who still want to be able to view specific content, such as tags, captions or comments. I am outraged that my work building these albums isn't considered important by Google. The pictures in the Google Photo version appeared in a random order - WITHOUT THE CAPTIONS! I was finally able to make the original captions appear, but only on a page that also included the camera I used and other information. My original Picasa album contained 12 photos of a wedding, all in a particular order. To find out what Google Photo is offering, I searched for a recent album. The albums do not consist of pictures alone the edited content includes photo order and the captions. I spent thousands of hours assembling these albums, rearranging photos, and - most important - adding caption information to the images. In the last 10 years, I have made 445 Picasa albums, which I have shared with family, friends, and others. It would have been nice to get an email from Google about this change, but the only notice I received was on my Picasa album page. So… do you have some Picasa alternative suggestions covering, above all, steps 5 and 6 of my workflow? I am looking for these features on the web, but nothing seems to fulfill such requirements… Is really Picasa so unique? This is fantastic for me.ħ) If I want, I upload on PicasaWeb just the albums, not entire folders, with only selected photos. No space will be wasted until I’ll decide to export Album.Ħ) I improve my picture by cropping/rotate them, enhance luminosity… Physical files are not touched by Picasa and I can experiment as I want. No physical duplicate will be created by Picasa on my hard drive. My workflow:ģ) I rename files with my favorite naming convention: event tag, progressive number…Ĥ) With Picasa, I tag my photos, star them to facilitate future searchĥ) I create Picasa Album choosing only better/favorite pictures from the many I shot. I’m an enthusiast DSLR user taking thousand photos per year. The Picasa Web Album changes will being rolling out on May 1. Support for the Picasa desktop app will end March 15. Further details on where users will access their Picasa content aren't provided.
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Users who aren’t interested in switching to Google Photos will be given a 'new place' to view, download and delete Picasa Web Albums, without the organization, creation and editing tools. Google said in a statement, 'We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products.' To that end, Picasa users with web albums should log into Google Photos, at which point all the content will automatically be available in Photos.

The change will take place 'over the coming months.' Sure enough, in a statement on Friday Google announced that Picasa will be phased to make way for Google Photos, detailing what it hopes will be a more uniform photo experience. Last year, Google rolled out a stand-alone Photos app with unlimited storage, stirring up rumors that its photo editing application Picasa's days were numbered.
