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It probably has only gotten more responsive by virtue of being made to run fast on hardware from the early 2000s
You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
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Yeah, I'm often one to criticise Google, but an entirely free cloud-based photo album was never going to be around forever. If you are very concerned with keeping an online record for all time you really shouldn't be depending on free stuff like Picasa.
Maybe, but it would also cost Google almost nothing to set up a 301 redirect from Picasa URLs to Google Photos. I wouldn't expect someone like Yahoo or Microsoft to bother, but being a “good web citizen” seems intrinsic to the Google corporate identity, after all.
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Why isn’t there a move TO tagging photos with text? That rocks! This is all so depressing. Picasa desktop was great. They killed it. Picasa Web albums were great. They killed it. Why are they making everything worse?
To be fair, I've had surprisingly good luck at searching for photos in Google Photos by text. The AI there seems pretty solid.
As George Lopez would say, Why you crying? You chose to use someone's free platform to host and display your pictures with virtually no work on your part, and now you don't get the free lunch anymore. These scenarios are actually useful. They train people to use solutions that are open and portable, which will help them respond to unexpected disasters in the future. Use a self-hosted CMS to build, manage and publish…
If you're able to point to an open and portable self-hosted CMS that has an equivalent feature set to Picasa (and not a minor subset thereof), you'll be sure to gain a lot of praise from myself, and many others here too I'm sure.
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You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.
It's interesting that Amazon's approach of building products and killing them off if they don't improve the bottom line earns praise, while Google's similar one endlessly pisses people off.
It's probably because by and large Amazon kills physical products and Google kills services. If someone buys a Fire Phone and it gets discontinued - well, products getting discontinued is part of life and it doesn't (usually) affect the usage of the one you have. If Google builds a web service, then that service has the chance to grow to 50m / 100m users before deciding that it is not worth supporting. Law of large n…
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It's not free, but Lightroom is the canonical software for this purpose.
I used lightroom too. I'm on the last version that isn't subscription based. Since I didn't upgrade my camera, I could stick with the old version (Adobe doesn't back port new cameras into the old version of its software). I noticed the "view photos on map" feature is now broken. and since my new desktop is linux I've been looking for alternatives. "DarkTable" seems promising but I haven't really got the hand of the U…
That linked video is by Robert Hutton, he makes really good tutorials for Darktable so that might help you.
Anyway, for non-realistic stuff you can add G'MIC for more filter-options and you are pretty much set for life[1].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVXK4eAM5E
[1] http://gmic.eu/
It's interesting that Amazon's approach of building products and killing them off if they don't improve the bottom line earns praise, while Google's similar one endlessly pisses people off.
Maybe it's because we know Google is profiting off of our private information, and we don't make a stink about that because they're giving us free stuff. But why shouldn't we be upset when they stop giving us the free stuff we like? They're still profiting off of our private information aren't they?
Amazon just isn't in the same boat.