For a while now I’ve been on the fence in regards to the Flickr vs Google Picasa battle. With both services constantly changing and improving, it’s difficult to make a decision and stick to it. But I think finally I’ve decided. Flickr it is. They’ve caught up with the features that I wanted so much for so long, and just in the last month released two of my “most wanted” – a much improved uploading tool, and quick and easy image editor.
Both of those additions pushed me to finalize the upload of all my pictures to Flickr. So now, all I had from my digital camera, is there. And I’ve enjoyed making the pictures better, more attractive with the editor – all it takes is just a few clicks to convert an average picture of which I have thousands into an eye candy.
Flickr has also recently released and improved its Android app, which once again makes me think about my mobile pictures. I will probably start pushing them into my Flickr stream as well.
And as far as Google Picasa is concerned, I think they’ve spoiled it quite a bit with such a tight integration with Google+. And their URLs are still ugly, making it pretty much impossible to migrate links from the blog via automatic redirection. Bad Google, bad. And while I’m sure they will improve, I don’t think I will change over any time soon – the decision process tired me down.
What app do you use for your Linux desktop to upload fotos on Flickr?
I don’t use any app. I use their new web-based uploader. http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/
thanks Leonid this makes sense
Right, I have hard time understanding what’s going on with Google. It looks like a losing attempt to become another Facebook. I wrote about it (in Russian) here: https://plus.google.com/117711276295132519456/posts/RE6DkY7Lv7P
Regarding Flickr’s easy image editor: I had an impression that you liked having control over the results of your efforts. How about the edited images? Do you back them up in some way?
I don’t backup images edited with Flickr’s editor. I have the source images though. Editing in Flickr is really simplistic – cropping, automatic color adjustments, and a few pre-selected effects. A full editing session is 20 clicks at most. No worries if it gets lost, as long as I have the original.
I have not used Flickr editing, but from what you are saying it does not look significantly less complicated than a standard editing sequence in PS. Am I wrong?
It is simpler than PS, and, it’s being web-based, can be used from any computer without any software installations.
When I looked at a the damned Flickr today, I realized that it lost my contact list :(
You looked somewhere wrong. Cause I can see that your contacts are still there. Your profile shows pictures from your friends:
http://ww.flickr.com/photos/56168111@N05/
Right, I accidentally used my other Yahoo account :) Shame on me!
Happens to the best of us. :)