I like Google Photos a LOT. It's not much of a photo editor, but does have rudimentary capabilities. But it includes unlimited storage, facial recognition, and does not share your photos unless you want to do so. It recognizes faces and creates little groups and "movies" that are surprising (and often pleasantly) and it's easy to create albums and share them privately. You can upload manually and don't have to have anything on your local computer if you don't want to. It took me a little while to get a handle on how to use it and the capabilities, but was well worth the effort. I used LightRoom for photo editing, so don't care about the weakness of the photo editing.
mlkddk wrote:
Google photo first got me messed up with its supposed "download" and wanted to put all sorts of additional programs on my computer. Then it doesn't seem to have any of the "old" picasa features that I got used to, so the new benefits are clunky and difficult to use. So what does everyone else think or what has been your experience? What program are you using to download, catalog and do minor edits? Just don't be shooting the messengers!