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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by prostoalex »

Sanddancer wrote: post #105
D_Guidi wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.

I've got a rather large collection of large photo images. Images which I can and do want to work on, crop, tune brightness, contrast, etc, before publishing them. Webapps right now are amazingly primitive and crude for even the most basic of workflows, especially when you're working with raw images. Additionally, in order to save the images I want how I created them, I'd have to pay a non-insubstantial amount of mone…

There's Windows Photo Gallery with the obvious OS restriction.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by sergiotapia »

anuragbiyani wrote: post #91
sergiotapia wrote: post #83

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

Why doesn't Google Photos work for you ? It does provide all the features you mention (depending on definition of "Nice gallery feature" of course), and on top of it really awesome search features. Full disclosure: I work at Google (not on the Photos product though). All opinions expressed are purely mine, and not of my employer.

I don't trust Google to not pull the rug under me.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by aethertap »

Sanddancer wrote: post #105
D_Guidi wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.

I've got a rather large collection of large photo images. Images which I can and do want to work on, crop, tune brightness, contrast, etc, before publishing them. Webapps right now are amazingly primitive and crude for even the most basic of workflows, especially when you're working with raw images. Additionally, in order to save the images I want how I created them, I'd have to pay a non-insubstantial amount of mone…

I'm not a photo power user like you are by any means, but I've been using darktable[1] quite a bit lately and I've gotten to where I like it. Here's the blurb from their front page:

"darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them."

1. http://www.darktable.org/

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by flurdy »

sergiotapia wrote: post #83

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

I think Dropbox ticks all 4 requirements.

That is what I use. Their ios & android has automatically uploaded my camera photos for years.

I move some into specific folders to share with family via their photo album (gallery) link feature.

As its dropbox, it is all just files and synced to my laptops all the time as well.

The only issue is if you like their gallery feature. I do, some may not. They recently closed their Carousel alternative.

https://photos.dropbox.com/app/timeline https://carousel.dropbox.com

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Post by jonathankoren »

ultramancool wrote: post #69
pgrote wrote: post #8

Alternatives for desktop picasa? Desktop Picasa is also going away and it is what I use for organizing my photos. I understand the backend of Picasa Web is replaced by Google Photos, no problem. My problem is with the desktop organization. Desktop Picasa allows for one feature no other alternative I have seen allows ... tagging of multiple photos. Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on…

Really hoping they'll open source the Picasa application or something, it was really the best in the business - I still recommend it to people regularly. Managing digital photos any other way I've seen is just too complicated for average users. Other than that I can only recommend they go to Lightroom or one of several open source applications which are at varying stages of completion and usability (I haven't played…

what open source options have you tried? I tried Lightroom, but it repeatedly barged and corrupted it's library while importing on my rather old MacBook.

I never was a fan of Picasa because it always felt and looked janky on a Mac. (Specifically, no drag-n-drop between apps.) I only started using it after iPhoto collapsed under its own weight. I thought about switching back to Apple Photos, but all that white space and mobile design feels weird on a screen with a 2 digit diagonal size. Google Photos is a nonstarter because I'm not comfortable all my photos to Googke and then paying to access them.

Why is photo management such a hard thing?

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by jbarham »

Man this is annoying. I've used Picasa desktop for probably 10 years now. It's not perfect but for keeping my family photos organized and doing quick edits before printing them or uploading them to our family blog it's great. That Google would suggest the Photos desktop uploader is an adequate substitute is a joke.

FWIW I also use Lightroom for more advanced editing but for regular people LR is overkill and complex.

I'd be perfectly willing to pay for an easy-to-use photo organizer but megacorps like Google & FB are killing off the market for paid software by using free software & services as a trojan horse to lure users to upload their data to the cloud where it can be mined for all its worth.

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Post by mtreis86 »

edwinnathaniel wrote: post #117

Anyone knows a good desktop app to organize photo like Picasa that works for Windows/Linux/OSX? Specifically there are a few things I like from Picasa: 1. Import files to folder based on picture dates e.g.: c:\pictures\2016-02-12\P0221314.jpg 2. Import videos from mobile devices and display in the right orientation for example: I have mobile devices and I take movies in different orientation: vertical or horizontal,…

I like digikam. I don't know how many of your requirements it passes. Opensource suite built on top of imagemagick.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by Elv13 »

databus wrote: post #75
tshtf wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ported my number out of Google Voice a couple of years ago. Some things to keep in mind with GV: * Your only form of "support", even when paying to port out a number, is a forum staffed entirely with volunteers. If you're actually using GV it's useful to read through here to see the trainwreck: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/voice * As the parent mentioned, the GV Blog is barren. * You're better off…

Where did you port your number to? Any suggestions for an alternative to GV?

I use voip.ms. It has a good service. Some limited SIP knowledge help if you wish to make it work ok.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by jonathankoren »

edwinnathaniel wrote: post #117

Anyone knows a good desktop app to organize photo like Picasa that works for Windows/Linux/OSX? Specifically there are a few things I like from Picasa: 1. Import files to folder based on picture dates e.g.: c:\pictures\2016-02-12\P0221314.jpg 2. Import videos from mobile devices and display in the right orientation for example: I have mobile devices and I take movies in different orientation: vertical or horizontal,…

I have some scripts on github I use to organize photos on my hdd. It doesn't fix orientation, but it does a decent job of putting things in the right directories.

https://github.com/jonathankoren/photo-autorganize

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by barney54 »

I really hate this decision--and I love Google Photos and own Lightroom. Picasso has been one of my favorite products for years. It is simple and just works. But because it's not online, Google now hated it.

Once upon a time there was a company who claimed their motto was "don't be evil." I really wish they wouldn't have changed.

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