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Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by matwood » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 2:04 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #68

acomjean wrote: post #23

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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…

Darktable is a bit laggy (sadly), but it has a whole bunch of amazing filters that not even the latest Photoshop or Lightroom has, so it is well worth diving into. The equalizer tool is incredibly powerful and flexible, for example[0]. 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 an…

I want to use and like Darktable, but it just feels so foreign after using LR for over a decade at this point. I keep giving it a try, so maybe one day it will stick :)

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by ArrayList » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #17

CamelCaseName wrote: post #6

In Google's defense: 1. This was announced over 3 years ago [0] 2. Photos/Videos uploaded to Picasa were transferred to Google Photos automatically (comments/tags/captions will be lost though) [1] 3. Picasa was originally built in 2002! (bought by Google in 2004) -- Perhaps Picasa had a time and place? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Discontinuation [1] https://picasa.google.com/

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.

> an entirely free cloud-based photo album

Uhh.. isn't that exactly what Google Photos is?

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by lawrenceyan » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

marcinzm wrote: post #87

lawrenceyan wrote: post #81

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Maybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.

AWS is not a single service but a large collection of separate services that interconnect. Some of which are quiet old and not exactly cutting edge. Yet they don't get deprecated.

You could say the exact same thing about Google Cloud. What I'm more talking about is stuff like Google Keep, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Kubernetes, Istio, etc. etc.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by valker43 » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 3:02 PM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #51

jrockway wrote: post #42

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> pretends to be friendly to open source I quite like go and Kubernetes.

That was meant to be parsed out as "open source communities". When it's in their own self-interest I'm not sure whether they're being friendly or not. Can't really tell. Also go feels a bit tightly controlled to me and like it's not carrying on the traditions of open source scripting languages (same with Swift). Fortunately, Rust and Elixir are shaping up to be good continuations of the culture of Perl/Python/Ruby/et…

> When it's in their own self-interest I'm not sure whether they're being friendly or not. Can't really tell.

Does it have to be mutually exclusive. Sure, Google is hoping you're going to go GKE for your Kubernetes/Container needs. But you're completely free to use another cloud, or roll your own.

For all cloud native backend stuff I really love Go (and Rust for that matter).

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by vanderZwan » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

matwood wrote: post #91

vanderZwan wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Darktable is a bit laggy (sadly), but it has a whole bunch of amazing filters that not even the latest Photoshop or Lightroom has, so it is well worth diving into. The equalizer tool is incredibly powerful and flexible, for example[0]. 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 an…

I want to use and like Darktable, but it just feels so foreign after using LR for over a decade at this point. I keep giving it a try, so maybe one day it will stick :)

Oh believe me, I totally get the feeling - muscle memory can backfire like that. Especially if neither old nor new interface is perfectly intuitive, and also just similar enough to be confusing where they differ.

I can't stress enough how good Robert Hutton's tutorial videos are though! They often contain little nuggets of behavior that I missed when first learning a new tool. For example, until I watched his videos I didn't know double-clicking on any curve resets it. Knowing those kind of little things adds up over time.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvlUro_Up1NBX7VK8UUu...