Picasa Web Albums’ stance doesn’t sound too comforting, does it? I wouldn’t dare to put any important pictures there, while I love Flickr’s actions about it coupled with their humble attitude. When you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you.Īny sets you’ve created that disappear when your Pro account expires will also return when you renew or upgrade. This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you are now subject to the limits of a free account. If your Pro account expires, don’t panic! None of your photos have been deleted! What happens to my photos if my Pro Account expires? If you cancel your subscription at any time, your Picasa Web Albums account will revert to 250MB of free storage space, and any photos beyond the 250MB limit may be deleted. Picasa Web Albums comes with 250MB of free storage, and the option to get a 6GB subscription for $25.00 per year. If I cancel my subscription for additional storage, what will happen to my photos ? Here’s what Picasa Web Albums respectively Flickr has to say about that: Picasa Web Albums The biggest fear for me, though, is to lose all the images I’ve uploaded to a service either if my paid account expires or if anything else happens. For the Flickr Pro account, one has a 2 GB monthly upload limit, but no storage limit whatsoever. A fixed 6 GB storage it’s actually not that much.No way to share specific albums/photos with certain other users. No way to have (totally) private photos.For Mac users, there’s a Mac OS X uploading tool that, as opposed to the Flickr Uploadr, actually works and doesn’t crash every second time.Īlso, according to the What’s New page, people with 6 GB storage can now also upload videos. Uploadingįor PC and Linux users, the Picasa software is the given way to go. Extra storage is only available to people in the US at the time of writing this, and they will get a fixed 6 GB limit for $25 a year. The free account includes 250 MB of storage, and you can upload as many photos you want, an when you want, within that range compare that to the Flickr monthly 20 MB bandwidth upload limit. You get to see large versions of every image, and again, it is up to the end user to choose whether to display each image’s caption or not. Compare that to Flickr who defaults to showing the image file name as the title not nice.Ī nice addition is the slideshow view. Another thing I like, compared to Flickr, is that if you don’t give an image a caption, no text is shown. Way more user-friendly than Flickr’s small thumbnails where the current one also mysteriously disappears. This is also accompanied by arrows pointing left and right. One more great, and given, feature is that in a photos separate page, you can navigate to the previous or next picture with your left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. Another upside of this is that you directly in the overview can see any eventual caption for the images. Naturally, the preference you choose in one gallery is then kept in the other galleries as well. You can make them small to get a good overview, medium, or large if you want to look at all the pictures in the same page, hence eliminating the need to go into each photo’s page to be able to view it. One of the things I really like is the possibility as an end user to, in the gallery overview, choose in what size you want to view the thumbnail images. All you need to start is a Google Account, and you here’s my albums if you want to test drive the service. While it isn’t as sophisticated as Flickr, its simplicity and some of the features are definitely better than Flickr’s. Personally, I think it’s a shame that it isn’t available for Mac OS X as well, since iPhoto is sub-par (more about that and Mac in general in My MacBook Pro – first-time Mac owner).ĭuring June this year they took the natural next step and released Picasa Web Albums: online photo sharing. Picasa is a software for organizing, editing and sorting your pictures, aimed at PC users, but there’s also a Linux version available in Google Labs. This is Google’s picture service: Picasa Web Albumsīack in 2004, Google bought Picasa Inc, a digital photo company, and it become known as one of the numerous items in Google’s product flora: Picasa. Well, as we all know, time flies but now I’m ready to tell you about a service that I believe have a serious potential to become a Flickr contender. When I wrote my post about the Flickr photo service, I promised that I’d review another one within the next week or so. Picasa Web Albums – A serious Flickr contender Published on Friday, October 20, 2006
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