Google Killing Off Picasa
Edited Saturday morning-Sure this is just my opinion. But I say I have a clue at least. I started in 35mm film in the mid 1970’s. First magazine cover in 1976, just a tiny car club publication, Lotus. Went Canon digital with their first digital SLR. Still love film, but never ever regretted digital. Digital got me practiced enough to get jewelry magazine work. Now thanks to the lox costs of digital the term is workflow.
All of us that get out there now face workflow. What to do with all those images. Hundreds, thousands. Gigabytes, terabytes. Which to do post on, which to keep which to delete. What to back up. Access to blogs and web pages and email and even a printer. Picasa pulled all that together better than Adobe did, and by far. No contest far. Please note I love my Adobe Suite. When it got to serious post work, layers, effective text, editing videos etc Picasa was of minimal use to me. Photoshop and Premiere own all that afaik.
Picasa will be missed. The simplest, easiest way to cope with too many photos, multiple cameras, video, is going to fade away. For pro or semi pro photographers not a huge deal. But for those who just love to take lots of images as best they can, shooting in raw files learning to process their images this is a blow. Picasa has a natural easy workflow and database Adobe should be a little bit embarrassed.
The Picasa desktop app will also be discontinued starting March 15th, 2016. The application will still work on your computer, but Google will not be supporting it and there will be no future updates to improve it.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this transition causes, but we want to assure you that we are doing this with the aim of providing the best photos experience possible,” Google says. “Google Photos is a new and smarter product, that offers a better platform for us to build amazing experiences and features for you in the future.”