Thursday, May 24, 2007

Moving from Yahoo! Photos to Picasa

"Heard the News? Yahoo! Photos will be closing this fall...". This is the headline on Yahoo! Photos. Yahoo provided a few alternatives such as Flickr, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish and Photobucket. After some investigation, I decided to used Picasa from Google instead. Below are pros and cons I found about Picasa.

Pros:
1. Direct support for blogger, you can blog about a picture and view pictures in blog posts directly in Picasa Web Album;
2. Picasa, a 5MB installation is a fantastic free photo editing and organizing software for amateurs like myself;
3. "Hello" photo sharing service;
4. Support image formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, PSD, TIF, RAW ...;
5. Support video formats: AVI, ...;
5. Web album allow setup of Public and Private albums;

Cons:
1. Available only to Windows 2000 and above (Linux version is available in Google Labs);
2. Web album does not seems to support download of original pictures (original files can be transferred using P2P);