{"id":19699,"date":"2018-07-06T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=19699"},"modified":"2018-07-06T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:54:07","slug":"what-is-the-best-photo-organization-and-sharing-tool-currently-replacement-for-google-picasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/what-is-the-best-photo-organization-and-sharing-tool-currently-replacement-for-google-picasa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best photo organization and sharing tool currently? (replacement for Google Picasa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor recently asked for a camera recommendation for a 12-year-old and also a way to organize and share photos.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I would have recommended Google Picasa, which was a great mixture of the best of desktop (responsive and powerful) and the Web (good for sharing). Google decided to throw away everyone&#8217;s years of work, though, by de-supporting the application, then <a href=\"http:\/\/googlephotos.blogspot.com\/\">causing uploads to fail as of March 26, 2018<\/a> (so if you spent years with Picasa adding to a collection (&#8220;Album&#8221;) that was synced to the web you can&#8217;t add a recently-taken photo to the collection). They didn&#8217;t release the software as open-source. As far as I know they didn&#8217;t make a real migration tool that preserves all of the database information on the high-res photos that remain on one&#8217;s desktop, e.g., that Photo X belongs to Album Y. (It looks as though there is an independent project called <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa-lightroom.com\/\">P2Lr<\/a> that will migrate Picasa to Adobe Lightroom.) I think that they also managed to break a lot of old links from web content into Picasa uploads. Maybe in software the flip side of <a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/casting-out-the-heretic-at-google\/\">&#8220;woken&#8221;<\/a> is &#8220;broken&#8221;? (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2018\/06\/27\/google-toughens-rule-internal-harassment-after-james-damore-firing-roils-staff\/738483002\/\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> for what folks at Google are doing instead of taking care of loyal Picasa customers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/googles-employee-diversity-numbers-havent-really-improved\/\"><em>WIRED<\/em> <\/a>shows that the male\/female ratio at Google has remained constant for at least four years, so Picasa customers can virtuously blame white males for their suffering.)<\/p>\n<p>Adobe Lightroom is sort of an obvious choice in the sense that Adobe has paying customers and presumably cares enough about them to preserve their work. However, it is $120\/month including 1 TB of cloud storage. That seems like a fair price, but a 12-year-old might need\/want something free?<\/p>\n<p>What do readers think?<\/p>\n<p>[Separately, the family of the 12-year-old is considering &#8220;Nikon D3400 dSLR (18-55mm)&#8221; for the kid. I&#8217;m not sure what she wants to take pictures of so maybe the kit zoom actually is a good starter lens? Certainly they are a lot better quality than kit zooms from 20 years ago.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor recently asked for a camera recommendation for a 12-year-old and also a way to organize and share photos. 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