Google Will Shut Down Picasa This Spring

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Google Will Shut Down Picasa This Spring - by Lauren Goode/ Google/ Tech/ The Verge/ theverge.com

"A not-at-all-surprising Google spring cleaning announcement.

Google announced earlier today in a blog post that it will stop supporting its Picasa photo storage service this spring. Starting in March, the company will shutter the Picasa desktop app, and in May, Picasa web albums will no longer be editable.

Google, of course, is suggesting its own Google Photos app as an alternative to Picasa, and says that if people have a Picasa account, "the easiest way to still access, modify and share most of that content is to log into Google Photos, and all of your photos and videos will already be there." But for people who don't want to use Google Photos, Picasa albums will still exist on the web and are accessible for download or deletion..."

Richard

 

[Makai Guy]

I've been meaning to get into Picassa for a long time now, but never got around to it. Looks like, for once, my procrastination was a GOOD thing. :whoopie:

 

[Passepartout]

Picasa is (was) kind of redundant. I went to photos.google when the above was announced and found it already on my account with all my photos categorized by date, and the nifty search function. Already I don't miss Picasa.

Jim

 

[Elli]

Picasa is (was) kind of redundant. I went to photos.google when the above was announced and found it already on my account with all my photos categorized by date, and the nifty search function. Already I don't miss Picasa.
Jim

Jim, I use Picasa as well, and just looked at photos.google, but my photos weren't in there ?????

 

[TUGBrian]

drat, hope they have a way to convert the TUG banner map to the google app.