![]() You can’t control how your photo files are organized into folders (it’s essentially one big bucket), and it doesn’t support starring or tagging images, which is unfortunate. Google Photos is richer, but still isn’t a 1-for-1 replacement for Picasa. Not really good for much more than a backup of our photos. My first thought was to try to use Amazon Photos or Google Photos because it would be so easy, and I could even get the storage for free (for Amazon, as a prime member - Google is also free, but only if you’re willing to accept reduced resolution on your images).Īmazon Photos turned out to be very feature-incomplete. I believe the only place to get all the meta data is from the PMP database files. I did find meta data in EXIF for some of my photos, but definitely not all. You may find advice online saying that you can get this information from EXIF/IPTC data in the files, but I believe that refers to previous versions of Picasa. These are stored as PMP files, which presumably is a proprietary format used by the Picasa team. One of the problems with Picasa is that its metadata is stored in databases external to the photos. And speaking of metadata, I really don’t want to lose all the work I’ve done in starring photos, face tagging, and filing photos in albums. If I were to lose all metadata, at least I would have the file organization to help me find photos from that trip to Jamaica in June of 2016, for example. I’m really happy with this process, and I refuse to give up my directory organization. put some photos into albums - for example, I have an album of “artistic” shots where I might add a few pictures each year.do some face tagging, but I haven’t been 100% consistent about that - there are still thousands of photos with no face tagging.save images in directories named with this convention: YYYY/MMDD - eventname typically, I dump images from my camera into a folder after a trip, or family gathering, etc.I thought I’d share my strategy for anybody who might be in a similar situation. Now that Picasa will no longer be supported by Google, I had to find a replacement. We have about 50,000 images in there with 22,000 tags, stars, album memberships, etc. ![]() ![]() I’ve used Picasa for over 10 years to manage my family’s photo library. ![]()
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