Why I’m switching from Flickr to Picasa

February 12th, 2010 | by geo |

I have been on Flickr for years, and it’s an outstanding online photo service. I also didn’t mind paying the $25/yr for unlimited photo uploads. It’s a great way to forever backup my iphoto albums, and easily share them online.

However, when I look at Google’s Picasa, I get most of the same features as Flickr, and I can pay $5/yr for 20GB of storage (which I can also use across multiple services..such as gmail and google documents (which I use both).

Also, the big turn off on flickr is that if you don’t pay the annual pro account fee ($25/yr), then Flickr will only display your most recent 200 photos…all others are hidden until you pony up again…no no..not fair.

Since I’ve chosen not to renew, all of my online albums from the past several years are gone….that’s fine, I’ll just upload them to Picasa from iPhoto (this is why I always keep a local copy of my media!) So, with Google Picasa, I get all of the same features (for the non-pro photographers it’s perfect, which most of us are), I save $20/yr, and I can use this 20GB of storage across other services I use.

20GB can store 10,0000 photos on a 5MP camera…..that’s plenty for me!

Bye bye Flickr for now…..

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  1. 16 Responses to “Why I’m switching from Flickr to Picasa”

  2. By Alex Long on May 9, 2010 | Reply

    I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.~*~

  3. By Andrew Jackson on Oct 5, 2010 | Reply

    Picassa and Flickr are both great tools for sharing photo online.–

  4. By Welder work  on Oct 20, 2010 | Reply

    both picassa and flickr are good if you want to share pictures online”;.

  5. By Satin Panties · on Nov 9, 2010 | Reply

    my family album is on Picassa and also on Flickr, they are great for backing up your digital photos ..

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    So you think it’s bad that Flickr will hide your pictrues until you pay? I suspect that Google will simply delete them. How is that better? Suppose they don’t delete them. What do you expect? Not pay and use it as if nothing happened? Sure, that is why they are so rich…

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