We know a lot of you use Picasa to manage your pictures. According to Google’s Picasa Blog, the will be transitioning from Picasa to Google Photos. If you use Picasa and choose not to use Google Photos, you’ll need to wait for a while as Google gets things organized. Google will not be updating Picasa after March 15, 2016 – but users will still be able to use the Picasa desktop but there will be no more updates.<\/p>\n
The following is from Google’s Picasa Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n Friday, February 12, 2016 10:00 AM<\/p>\n Since the launch of Google Photos, we\u2019ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and consideration, we\u2019ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products.<\/p>\n We know for many of you, a great deal of care has gone into managing your photos and videos using Picasa\u2014including the hours you\u2019ve invested and the most precious moments you\u2019ve trusted us with. So we will take some time in order to do this right and provide you with options and easy ways to access your content. We\u2019ve outlined below some of the changes you can expect.<\/p>\n If you have photos or videos in a Picasa Web Album today, the easiest way to still access, modify and share most of that content is to log in to Google Photos, and all your photos and videos will already be there. Using Google Photos, you can continue to upload and organize your memories, as well as enjoy other great benefits like better ways to search and share your images.<\/p>\n However, for those of you who don\u2019t want to use Google Photos or who still want to be able to view specific content, such as tags, captions or comments, we will be creating a new place for you to access your Picasa Web Albums data. That way, you will still be able to view, download, or delete your Picasa Web Albums, you just won\u2019t be able to create, organize or edit albums (you would now do this in Google Photos).<\/p>\n One thing to make clear is that none of this is happening today\u2014if you have a Picasa Web Album you can keep using it as normal. We\u2019ll start rolling out these changes on May 1, 2016.<\/p>\n As of March 15, 2016, we will no longer be supporting the Picasa desktop application. For those who have already downloaded this\u2014or choose to do so before this date\u2014it will continue to work as it does today, but we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For those of you who use Picasa, you can get the full scoop at Google’s Picasa Blog.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google to shut down Picasa on May 1, 2016 We know a lot of you use Picasa to manage your pictures. According to Google’s Picasa Blog, the will be transitioning from Picasa to Google Photos. If you use Picasa and choose not to use Google Photos, you’ll need to wait for a while as Google gets things organized.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,1674],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Moving on from Picasa<\/h2>\n
Picasa Web Albums<\/h3>\n
Desktop application<\/h3>\n