{"id":14483,"date":"2011-02-27T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2011-02-27T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:25:22","slug":"giving-picasa-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/27\/giving-picasa-a-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Picasa a try"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those of you who know me, know that I am a big fan of Flickr<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve been using it for years, and I have more than 10,000 photos upload there. \u00a0I am also a big fan of Google. \u00a0And even so, I ignored and disregarded their Picasa<\/a> service. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because it is boring.<\/p>\n

Flickr is a fresh and very much unique solution to the photo sharing problem. \u00a0It is a photostream. \u00a0It is social with all the commends and groups. \u00a0It helps with organization of photos by sets, collections, and tags. \u00a0It utilizes EXIF image data. \u00a0It allows to geotag pictures. \u00a0It was one of the first to introduce easy Creative Commons licensing. \u00a0And more.<\/p>\n

Picasa is very straightforward and … boring. \u00a0Create albums, upload images, share the selected. \u00a0That was pretty much it. \u00a0Later on of course comments came in, geotagging was implemented, and even face recognition was added. Sort of. \u00a0The strength of Picasa was not in the web service. \u00a0It was in the photo management application that you’d install on your computer. \u00a0And that was exactly what I never wanted to do.<\/p>\n

My computer is unreliable. \u00a0It crashes, and dies, and gets outdated. \u00a0It runs out of disk space. \u00a0I lose it. \u00a0And I can’t really share and discuss things off my computer with other people. \u00a0I can, but it’s not easy or convenient. \u00a0Flickr solves my problem – I upload pictures there, and everyone can see, comment, and reuse them.<\/p>\n

That however created a new problem for me. \u00a0Since I know that other people will look at my photos, I want to edit them a bit before uploading – crop, contrast, saturation. \u00a0Things like that. \u00a0But when I take a lot of pictures at once – event or travel – I have to work a lot to process them. \u00a0If I get several events in a row, I get stuck, overload, and lose interest. \u00a0Like now, for example. \u00a0I still have photos from my 2009 trips that I haven’t uploaded anywhere.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, I realized that there might be a workable scenario for me with Picasa. \u00a0Picasa these days is much more feature rich than it used to be. \u00a0It still lacks the social functionality, but it offers something more for photo management. \u00a0Picnick – an online photo editor. \u00a0With that, I can upload all my photos to Picasa as soon as I have them. I can keep them in a private album, edit them when I have the time, and then share them later. \u00a0Or share them immediately and edit them later – there is less social pressure because there is less social interactions and functionality.<\/p>\n

On top of that, Picasa is better working with my new Android phone. \u00a0I already use it to backup photos from my phone. \u00a0Having their all photos together makes sense.<\/p>\n

One other thing that Picasa does better – uploads. \u00a0Both services have API, so there are plenty of tools to move pictures around. \u00a0But I always prefer the simplest solution. \u00a0Flickr provides five file upload fields on their site. \u00a0If I need to upload few hundreds of pictures, I’ll spend too much time with that. \u00a0I am, sort of, forced to install an application or a browser plugin or something. \u00a0Picasa web albums allows to select multiple files for upload – as many as you have in the folder. \u00a0So in just a couple of clicks I can select and start the upload and come back later when it’s done.<\/p>\n

Having seen all that in the last few days, I decided to try it out. \u00a0I am no uploading all my photos to Picasa as well. \u00a0I’ll keep them in private albums for now. \u00a0If I like it enough, I’ll share them later.<\/p>\n

What about you? \u00a0Where do you keep your photos? \u00a0How do you share them? \u00a0And are you happy with your current setup?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Those of you who know me, know that I am a big fan of Flickr. \u00a0I’ve been using it for years, and I have more than 10,000 photos upload there. \u00a0I am also a big fan of Google. \u00a0And even so, I ignored and disregarded their Picasa service. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because it is boring. Flickr is … Continue reading Giving Picasa a try<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30,62,1334],"tags":[684,2782,1152],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-flickr","tag-google-picasa","tag-social-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15723,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/flickr-vs-google-picasa-the-battle-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":14483,"position":0},"title":"Flickr vs Google Picasa : The Battle Continues","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As some of you know, I've almost abandoned my Flickr account. 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According to\u00a0Picasa Web's help center, \"photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage\". If you upload photos from Google+, they're automatically\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12460,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/14\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":14483,"position":3},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a few years since I had a look at Picasa. Nice piece of software. Cool functionality at amazing speed. Too bad I am a Flickr fan. # Shotwell photo manager will replace both Gthumb and F-Spot in Fedora 13 (coming out in a month or so). 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