Photo filing advice please
From what I can gather, Picasa Web Albums are now in Google Photos. I don't know about the linking.
It's the offline functionality of Picasa that I am going to miss. So many nifty features. The much-vaunted Lightroom costs a bomb.
It's the offline functionality of Picasa that I am going to miss. So many nifty features. The much-vaunted Lightroom costs a bomb.
You didn't understand me - it's just a re-branding of where the pictures are kept should you choose to put them online. The offline part is not being withdrawn or unsupported - at least there's no mention of that anywhere online that I can see.
Sorry Boguing, I mistook what you were saying.
Google has pulled the lug on Picasa. It won't stop working, but it is no longer being updated. I suppose we continue to use it at our own risk.
http://googlephotos.********.com.au/...om-picasa.html
Google has pulled the lug on Picasa. It won't stop working, but it is no longer being updated. I suppose we continue to use it at our own risk.
http://googlephotos.********.com.au/...om-picasa.html
Crikey - you're right.
I'm sure that the new version will be very good for the web stuff, which I have been using a fair bit.
I've just downloaded a copy of the installer for future computers - it's available here https://picasa.google.co.uk/
Mixture recommended Adobe's Lightroom, which I have a copy of but still haven't got round to installing. Finishing my task off is a job for this winter - everything on film has been scanned and I'm part way through putting all of that into date order. I'm using Picasa 'actively' (by adding and deleting folders using the file menu so that I only have the pictures that I want to sort in that session) for that and a wonderful tool called Bulk Rename Utility. It does what clever people do in the modern version of Dos but let's the less gifted see what their changes look like before applying them. A bit daunting on first sight, but stick with it. As an example it let's me take a folder containing files named IMG01 and upwards and put a prefix or suffix around any or all of the original filename. For example I have a folder of pics scanned from sequential strips of negative from one film so I'm using 1992-01-15 because I know that was the date of the first picture, and then -10 because it's the first film that I scanned starting on that date (if that seems pointless it's because we had several cameras and typically you change films on Christmas Day or the first day of a holiday, camera 2 would be -20 and so on) then -74 is the number that I gave that film and the envelope that it's now in, and then -25.tif is the negative number, but I told Bulk Rename to delete the letters IMG. That all gives 1992-01-15-10-74-25.tif, and having renamed them in that way they can all be dropped into one enormous folder. The only thing that isn't perfect about that is that all the pictures in one film are now given the same date as the first, but that's where tagging them comes in. That's done in the image data file itself, can be done with Picasa quite well, I understand that Lightroom does it better, and there are many other bits of software that do some or all of it. I'll tell you how I get on with Lightroom over winter.
I'm sure that the new version will be very good for the web stuff, which I have been using a fair bit.
I've just downloaded a copy of the installer for future computers - it's available here https://picasa.google.co.uk/
Mixture recommended Adobe's Lightroom, which I have a copy of but still haven't got round to installing. Finishing my task off is a job for this winter - everything on film has been scanned and I'm part way through putting all of that into date order. I'm using Picasa 'actively' (by adding and deleting folders using the file menu so that I only have the pictures that I want to sort in that session) for that and a wonderful tool called Bulk Rename Utility. It does what clever people do in the modern version of Dos but let's the less gifted see what their changes look like before applying them. A bit daunting on first sight, but stick with it. As an example it let's me take a folder containing files named IMG01 and upwards and put a prefix or suffix around any or all of the original filename. For example I have a folder of pics scanned from sequential strips of negative from one film so I'm using 1992-01-15 because I know that was the date of the first picture, and then -10 because it's the first film that I scanned starting on that date (if that seems pointless it's because we had several cameras and typically you change films on Christmas Day or the first day of a holiday, camera 2 would be -20 and so on) then -74 is the number that I gave that film and the envelope that it's now in, and then -25.tif is the negative number, but I told Bulk Rename to delete the letters IMG. That all gives 1992-01-15-10-74-25.tif, and having renamed them in that way they can all be dropped into one enormous folder. The only thing that isn't perfect about that is that all the pictures in one film are now given the same date as the first, but that's where tagging them comes in. That's done in the image data file itself, can be done with Picasa quite well, I understand that Lightroom does it better, and there are many other bits of software that do some or all of it. I'll tell you how I get on with Lightroom over winter.
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You can download a free trial of Lightroom etc from
Download a free trial or buy Adobe products | Adobe downloads
I have Lightroom and the latest Photoshop, you can "rent" them for £8 ish a month and they update themselves over the web, well worth it.
To get the best from Lightroom you need to be shooting in RAW. It allows you to edit photos and adjust the levels to bring the best out of your images.
Download a free trial or buy Adobe products | Adobe downloads
I have Lightroom and the latest Photoshop, you can "rent" them for £8 ish a month and they update themselves over the web, well worth it.
To get the best from Lightroom you need to be shooting in RAW. It allows you to edit photos and adjust the levels to bring the best out of your images.
