Last year, Google with unlimited storage, stirring up rumors that its photo editing application Picasa's days were numbered. 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. The change will take place 'over the coming months.' 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. 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. Further details on where users will access their Picasa content aren't provided. Support for the Picasa desktop app will end March 15. The Picasa Web Album changes will being rolling out on May 1.

Picasa question to the community: I have used Picasa, but my use was specific; I used it to download via wi-fi, then I put the pictures into folders on my hard drive which I had specifically named. Picasa did not 'get'all my pictures nor did I use Picasa to capture all my folders/pics. I did however create some specific 'Albums' which I then synced to the web, in order to allow those with a link, to see and download (family, friends). I also used Picasa to 'work on the pictures' before storing them permanently in my specific folders. Now, with Win 10, I still download via Picasa, work on them and store them as before, but I can no longer sync an album. Now I see'One Drive' and 'Google Drive' on my PC - and some pictures pop up automatically(??), others don't.

I understand one of these should allow me to 'share', but some friends do not use 'One Drive' or 'Google Drive' and never will. What's my best bet to upload pics somewhere for sharing? Is anyone happy with google photos from a photography standpoint? This is terrible to me as I used Picasa and had tags - which were not converted, and now cannot even be used in picasaweb (what is left of it). Google has really annoyed me with this photos fluff piece that I can't even force farce tags on in any easy way and has ruined 100's of hours of organization.

I do like the phone integration and auto backup, but still the searching is terrible unless google does it automagically for you. Very sad and looking for an alternative. I’m an enthusiast DSLR user taking thousand photos per year. My workflow: 1) I take a lot of shots 2) I move pics on my local hard drive(s) 3) I rename files with my favorite naming convention: event tag, progressive number 4) With Picasa, I tag my photos, star them to facilitate future search 5) I create Picasa Album choosing only better/favorite pictures from the many I shot. No physical duplicate will be created by Picasa on my hard drive. No space will be wasted until I’ll decide to export Album. 6) I improve my picture by cropping/rotate them, enhance luminosity Physical files are not touched by Picasa and I can experiment as I want.

This is fantastic for me. 7) If I want, I upload on PicasaWeb just the albums, not entire folders, with only selected photos. 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? I'm so sad, I have 180,000 photos in Picasa and was getting seriously committed to doing something with them all. Just got a new 2 TB laptop to store them all as my old laptops kept crashing, uploaded everything into Picasa again and got it all organized and just read the news (I have apparently been under a rock). Now I'm looking for a new desktop organizer, not interested in cloud either.

Has anyone used Photo Director 7 or Paintshop Pro? It looks like Photo Director only supports 5 formats to upload images and I have more. Paintshop Pro doesn't look for duplicate images, which I have many, so I would like that feature for sure. I'd also like whatever I choose to also upload videos from my camera and iphone, does anyone have any suggestions? I have been using Picasa FOREVER and really want something as simple and as good at organizing so many pictures.

Any thing that happens in the cloud, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, et al, your data will always be at the mercy of corporate whim, fancy, and policy changes. Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Data you physically control you dictate the policy. Data in the cloud you do not. It's controlled for you by a 3rd party entity.

I personally use OS X and not Windows. I am thinking to give ACDSee a try for local organization and management. Apple's own new Photos.app also has organiational capability, but, sooner or later they will try to 'railroad' you into using iCloud. With ACDsee, it is very reasonably priced and NO recurring monthly subscription fees as with Adobe. It seems to be quite good as an organizer.

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I also run my own NAS (server) from Synology. As such I have my own cloud and share capability through their smart phone apps as well as PC direct. Since posting this, I decided to not use ACDSee. Not sure what turned you off about Google, but with unlimited storage there, it is my primary storage choice. Work flow is: (1) Raw ( = original) camera media to external hard disk; (2) import to Apple's Photos app, (3) edit / modify as desired, (4) Export edited media to home server (Synology NAS with Photo Station (my own 'cloud') (5) Final upload to Google, Facebook, Flickr, wherever. I feel comfortable with this.

I always have original unedited data sets (1) and a 2nd set in Apple's Photos app (2) as I copy, rather then point to the data. The edited data is exported to my server (also internet accessible via through PhotoStation (4)) and then finally uploaded from there to cloud services.

So, with such a flow, I am in control regardless of future unforeseen policy shifts by 3rd party services.;-). Okay folks your comments have been interesting and in some cases very informative. In the past I have used and liked Picasa. Prior to downloading Picasa I had developed my own method for organizing my photos. However, after downloading Picasa, when ever I added new photos instead of being able to continue using my own sorting method, the new photos went directly into Picasa.

I only wanted Picasa for editing, not for cataloging. So I deleted Picasa as I was not really into editing.

I did most of mt editing in the camera and rarely needed post editing. However, I want to download Picasa again but this time I want to save it to DVD's or to an external hard drive to use it for editing not for cataloging. So here is my question, how can I download and store Picasa to DVD's or to an external hard drives? If you go to the Picasa forums, there is a petition they are asking us to sign to try and get them to keep it the way it is. If you can't find it let me know. I don't know if it will do anything, but it certainly can't hurt. I have stored and edited my pictures on this web site since it started.

I have 4 hard drives of pictures all organized with this awesome website. It was just so easy to use. They have said to download Picasa to a safe place, just in case. They have also said it will work with Windows 10. Let's hope thats true. I was looking to get a new computer soon.

Nothing comes close to this program. I always loved Picasa and it's ease of setting up folders, hierarchies, and searching. But no online photo publisher allows much of hierarchies and so organizing photos remains a BS proposition.

You would never organize your photo albums at home without some degree of hierarchy, nor a family tree, desktop file cabinet, etc. Imagine a family tree without hierarchy! All the online photo sharing sites can go stick it you know where. Imagine trying to find your 2001 tax returns if you never organized it by year or something (1 level).

Photo sharing should allow at least 5 levels of nesting photos! I love what Google provides for us generally but sometimes I think decisions are made so internally that what is good for the company (inside) can be very wrong for users outside. Not different from any large organization or for that matter government. Google's emphasis on mobile for photography (understandable to chase scale) and forcing images to be saved on Google servers to use the Photos software (possibly for Google use in organizing information-not a bad thing) can easily be seen as having major advantages for the company. However by doing this (and abandoning Picasa) they weaken and alienate the desktop using (perhaps more serious photographic community) group of users. The action taken by Google will no doubt lead to greater internal efficiency and productivity but is a severe blow to a large group of users.

If the company can go from Google to Alphabet surely continued support for Picasa and Photos is within their capability. I think this is really Google shooting itself in the leg. Their motto was 'don't be evil'. Try to avoid people hating them as they hate other big corporations. Now users like us, not many when compared to smartphone users perhaps, but still quite a few - are very displeased.

The Google photos app is so bad it is not worthy of further comment. Except perhaps to say it aimed squarely at 5 year olds. As for myself, with nearly 100000 images, managed by Picasa over more than 10 years, I have not found anything similar yet. I am considering incorporating the name tags into the EXIFs of the files so as at least to save some of the work done. I can only join others in hoping Google will let others pick up the work where they left off. Insane, I have been using Picasa for years after a really bad experience with Iphoto Is there a simple, trusted (that will last) program for MAC that I can use to organize photos?

(I just downloaded the ACDSee trial for mac.and tried to download photos from the iphone and it crushed miserably while doing so!!! Again, unbelievable. I just had my sister from Europe visiting and she keep asking me to send her a folder with all the pics and I just can't: IMAC i7 with 24gb RAM, Iphone 6s 64 GB. And STILL CAN'T store my photos in a decent way! F.K apple and google! I should give up uploading photo and video and keep organising them neatly. Countless hours were spent in doing that.

From pbase shifted to flickr and from flickr shifted to Picasa, google+. Each of these photo sharing sites has its cons and limitation. That is the main reason for spending countless hours on organising them. Internet cloud storage shares some common characteristics with could on the sky. It keeps changing. You can't organize them perfectly in your way.

It may even disappear totally in somedays. Without nested folders, tags, and perfect search engine, cloud is always messy.

This is the nature. Even PC OS have changed, tagging on multiply files are not as conveniently as before.

Messy and imperfect cloud system are what we can have for years to come until the day of super smart AI search engine. I've used PICASA for years and have tried Google Photos. PICASA is still Google's best online photo album system; however, I guess they're more interested in turning their systems into social media services with little concern about the PICASA users they're leaving behind!? Google Photos is not of real value to me. It lacks so much of the friendliness of PICASA that I suspect I'll move elsewhere for a service that works the way I do. It is, however, a shame they've merrily gone and deleted all the album comments that I've accumulated over the years.

We had accumulated an image knowledge base (KB) in these comments and now they're gone. This KB were very valuable to our clientele! Not looking forward to porting thousands of images to a new service. Picasa may have seemed to kinda align with Google's overall product line and core services 10 years ago but it just doesn't anymore.

And, it was free, so there's little motivation for them to continue maintaining it. I am curious if they have considered selling it.

There has to be some value with it's popularity, which is not only because it's free. Other companies that currently have image editing / raw processing software with no indexing organization functionality could benefit, or some of the camera manufactures? Having used it for many years now, I started trying to migrate myself to lightroom last year. But, I still find it's often quicker for me to find something in picasa at times, and am disappointed at seeing it phased out. I use Linux and have 20TB of photos on my disk array. How does Google Photo help with that?

I also want to note that I've been a foster dad, and have many photos of our foster kids - which by law cannot be online. As foster parents, we're required to prepare a 'lifebook' as personal history for each kid, but there are potentially serious, and fairly obvious, issues with the wrong people getting access to such photos. Similar constraints now generally apply for photos taken of your own kids in school plays, etc. because there may be other kids in the same activities who are foster kids, etc. In sum, running Picasa locally has been great for picking-out the photos of our foster kids to make lifebooks, but I have not seen any way that Google Photo legally can be used for any such thing. I would encourage Google to think about doing what many companies have done with abandoned software: make the last version an open source release so that others could continue to support it. I don't care too much if it is Picasa web or Google photos.

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I care a lot more about the Picasa desktop. For a while one can keep it I presume. Nobody will delete it from your PC. But the question is a new PC how will it get installed on a new PC? I have almost a terra byte of photos, mostly RAW on a separate hard drive which is backed up.

If the computer goes the data does not die with it. One can browse them easily with Picasa.

I have no interest of uploading all that. All I hope somebody will jump in maybe a third party and maintain it or come up with something similar. Probably important to add: Many people have yet to upgrade to Windows 8 (now discontinued, of course) or Windows 10, and (like me) are still using Windows 7.

I'd highly recommend, in addition to making Google Drive copies of Picasa (for Windows and Mac), that you also copy-and-paste the FAQ for how to use Picasa for W8 and W10, since Google never released updated versions that were fully supported on these platforms, and I believe there are several steps one needs to take to get them to work (or maybe not, but still, there are release/support notes CURRENTLY available from Google) Here are my VIEW-ONLY versions Using Picasa on W8: Google Product Forum on using it with W10. I've been using Picasa Desktop for many years, and also started using Google Photos when it was released. It seemed like the start of a great service, but is clearly missing many critical features.

That said, the one feature that has kept me loyal to picasa desktop for so many years is the ability to add/edit location data (geotags) to my images. To date, I have yet to find any software that will offers this feature is a simple/easy-to-use way. Whether they plan to in the future or not (doubtful) Google Photos clearly doesn't offer the feature either. Does anyone know of a decent deskop application that allows geotagging? Would appreciate any suggestions.

According to Google's Terms of Service: 'When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services'. '.Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection'. Slurping the users' data in the 'Cloud' has created the Big Data revolution for a few dozen companies, led by G. To them, a local app on desktop/tablet/etc.

Is a barrier to growth. To me, it's a fast, secure, controllable, efficient solution. Years ago, e.g., my heart rate monitor was a local download from the HRM belt to desktop app for analysis. Today i must upload my HRM data (actually a unique biometric) into Suunto's, Polar's et al. Clouds for the same results, w/o any control who else is using my data for what research and monetization. Yes, i like Picasa, i will use it as long as possible, then i'll choose 1-2 others from. I was alarmed to read this news here.

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. In the last 10 years, I have made 445 Picasa albums, which I have shared with family, friends, and others.

I spent thousands of hours assembling these albums, rearranging photos, and - most important - adding caption information to the images. The albums do not consist of pictures alone; the edited content includes photo order and the captions.

To find out what Google Photo is offering, I searched for a recent album. My original Picasa album contained 12 photos of a wedding, all in a particular order. 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. I am outraged that my work building these albums isn't considered important by Google. So sad that they are doing this because it is an excellent bit of software.:-( Apps are one thing, and there are hundreds, probably thousands that can do editing on tablets and phones, but I'd rather edit images on a computer. For total beginners, Picasa does almost everything they want/need.

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And it is non destructive too, which makes it ideal for beginners. I can show someone how to use it all in about two hours, and there is not many software programs you can do that with, never mind imaging programs. They seem to emphasize that they are replacing the storage side of it, while ignoring the editing part of what is being lost. Google has a tendency to ditch things, so I wouldn't rely on them solely for something. Folks, check out new photo/video app - www.SnapsBoard.com. It leaves both Google Photos and Flickr in dust. 1) SnapsBoard provides unlimited free storage.

2) Google Photos with free plan reduces size of your photo if photo size is more than 16mega pixels. SnapsBoard does not downgrade resolution of any of your photos or videos. 3) SnapsBoard allows you to share a photo or video in one click to all the following sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Gmail contacts, Yahoo email contacts, Hotmail contacts, and mobile message.

4) Organize photos/videos by any number of personal groups and circles. 5) SnapsBoard provides tons of photo editing and decoration features - filters, brightness, adjust color, add emojis/stickers/text/frames, crop, rotate. 6) Create photo and musical collages 7) Artists/Photographers can make their art/photos available for purchase in SnapsBoard. 8) Send the photo print orders to your local Walgreens store. '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.' The fact that Google Photos ignores tags/keywords, captions and comments is mind boggling. The EXIF display is also very minimalistic (does not even show if flash was used).

Who designs these things? Oh, I know - 20 yo nerds who only take pictures with their phones and who as my grandparents were saying 'think that their farts do not stink'! I'm sure there are many Picasa users willing to pay for an improved and supported product but Google is too ignorant to care about its users who invested over 10 years in using the product and were actually PAYING for extra storage. Great work Google!

Desktop Picasa's ability to organize photos and auto sync albums with the Web for easy sharing is something unique. There is no substitute. I have and use Lightroom but its organizing abilities are clunky and confusing.