The biggest reason I don't use Google Photos is the lack of a slideshow functionality. Think about it. It's a photo app and doesn't have fullscreen functionality, which is a requirement basically.
I'll continue to use Picasa.
Moving on from Picasa
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Re: Moving on from Picasa
#202Anyone 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,…
On Windows, the default photo importer allows you to import and name files in a variety of ways. I personally keep the file name from the device, and the importer places it in a dated folder, based on date taken, rather than date imported.
It also deals automatically with orientation of videos and photos based off the Exif data.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#203My 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.
Have you looked into Picturelife[0]? They have native iOS and Android apps as well as a web app. They also offer the option to use your own AWS S3 bucket[1] at which point you can use their service for free. And you'd still retain complete control of the photos because you have access to the S3 bucket. You can also download your whole library as a zip file with or without metadata[2]. [0]: https://picturelife.com/hom…
That looks really cool, especially that you can use your own S3 bucket. That has always been my major problem with hosted photo apps - that I couldn't trust them not to disappear with my photos. Whilst Amazon could also theoretically disappear with my photos too, I see them as a pretty secure option.
The only main thing missing here is the ability to install the web application on my own hosting account. I'd love someone to have a business model where the base app is free and open source, but there exist paid mobile and desktop apps and third party extensions. Basically, a WordPress-esque ecosystem, but for photos.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
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> fantastic search Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails). Hilariously bad.
Really? I've never not been able to find an email I was looking for in Gmail.
Exactly. If there's one thing Google is good at, is search. Especially in their own email.
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Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device. Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing ever), they'll show up in front of you without any action required on your part, they will change drastically in front of your eyes, corner cases will be buggy, and then in a few month…
> corner cases will be buggy This is where you are wrong. It is much easier catch and fix bugs in cloud software.
But how much effort will you spend on edge cases?
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Google of course thinks that wrong, they want you on their platform. Doesn't mean it's what I want as a consumer (with a DSLR and NAS full of RAW images)
You are not their target market - which is fine. There many good options for serious photographers. 90% of folks just want seamless backup and organization of their photos. Phone cameras are getting pretty amazing in quality these days. Google photos caters to that demand.
Is there any public information on how "unlimited" the unlimited storage is on Google photos? Is there a built in rate limit or max size per account?
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> Being able to sort pics Google Photos is amazing, but sorting photos in it is pretty lackluster. You can make albums... That's about it. It's sort of like Gmail; They want you to worry less about your complex organization system, and just use their fantastic search instead.
> fantastic search Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails). Hilariously bad.
do you have an example?
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#208Alternatives 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…
Try DigiKam - it's open source and its photo management features work very well. > Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on individual and multiple photos? DigiKam!
Fantastic feature set, but on Windows importing from USB cameras doesn't seem to work and it also isn't stable, so a deal breaker. As Picasa hasn't had any love in years, it's future demise was obvious, and my hope is that this creates a whole lot more attention for DigiKam on Windows as it seems to work well on Linux.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#209Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…
> I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. Although I never really used Picasa, Dropbox's decision to shutdown Mailbox and, to a lesser extent, Carousel, was particularly upsetting for me. Although in the case of Mailbox it was more due to a decline in acquiring new users after the buyout [1]. I'm not too bummed…
They also decided to shut down Skitch which I use on a daily basis. Lately I've been looking for an alternative (on Windows) and I think I will go for Greenshot http://getgreenshot.org/
Re: Moving on from Picasa
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> fantastic search Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails). Hilariously bad.
Photo search is pretty cool. I just searched for "James in the Mountains" and got photos of my Son in the mountains. I don't think postgres can do that :-)
Yeah, it's hilariously good actually. I find myself evangelizing the search. It's brilliant, and for the first time in my life, I don't feel a need to organize my photos.