Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

I have used Picasa for years to upload photos from African mission tips to Picasaweb and have linked to those albums in my blog, created in Google's Blogger app. All of my content is already available at Google Photos, I haven't had to re-upload anything. I may have lost some captions along the way. I also do a daily photo challenge that I started in 2015 on Facebook and I upload the same photos and descriptions in web-friendly sizes using Picasa to Picasaweb for people to see that are not on Facebook. I just send a link to the album (or Collection in the newspeak Google way of describing it). Several questions. Does anyone know if we will still be able to upload to Google Photos from Picasa after it's no longer supported? Will I need to change all of the links in my 10 year old blog to point to Google Photos or will the Picasaweb Album links still work? Will we still be able to email from Picasa? This is a very useful feature since it automatically downsizes pictures and attaches them to an Outlook or Gmail message. Google is claiming they will give you unlimited space for web friendly shots and a 15GB limit on originals. I use Carbonite and external drives for actual backup, but for sharing albums, the combo of Picasa and Picasaweb has been very good. Thanks in advance for shedding any more light on this. And yes, I have read previous threads, but didn't see these issues addressed. Cheers!

Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

One more thing. I use Lightroom and Photoshop for post-processing. My questions are only about using Picasa/Google Photos for my shared albums and the changes I may need to endure.

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Don't unload Picasa. It still works as well as it ever did. It just won't get further updates.

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

Take a look at assistant!

Kuzano

Change two on that advice. It's good but go one step more.

If you don't have a clean install file for Picasa in your archive or backups, download a new Picasa install file and make sure you store it off the computer on a flash drive or external drive, so you will have it in case your computer fails.

I say that, banking on two facts. You can reload it on your restored hard drive or another computer. Second, your hard drive, computer or software WILL fail at some point and you will lose your currently running PICASA.

:shock:

Redmark

Great idea, thanks, maybe Google will put it back to the people.

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

Read this. http://www.cnet.com/products/google-photos/#!

Because Google Photo compresses photos larger than 16mb and if you process in raw you may want to keep everything in Lightroom.

Tom Kelley Loc: Roanoke, Virginia

That's what i did.

Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

Thanks everybody. My one unresolved issue is still whether Picasa will be able to upload to Google Photos after they pull the plug on support. There has been mention that some developer APIs will be going away and I may have to adapt to a clunky way to get my photos out there. Or perhaps Lightroom will have a plugin, if they don't already, for Google Photos.