Comments on: Review: Picasaweb vs. Flickr

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:22:51 +0000

Hi Elle B,

I had wasted lot of my time using Flickr, Picasa, and a few other sites. I say waste not because I had trouble using it (since I am a techie, and I like messing around with new features etc.) –but because after I uploaded the photos I had to call my not-too-tech-savvy family members and walk them through some tedious process. That frustrated both me and them!

In my case, I scanned some old photos and wanted my dad and one of my aunt and uncle to comment on those photos; not to blog for the world to see, but for me (and our family) so that we keep bit of our family history.

I recently landed on something called http://www.dreamyreflections.com and man…. I am spellbound. It had exactly what I wanted.

In fact, it used to be that I take most of the photos I upload them too. Ideally my wife wanted help me by doing the selecting and uploading (I literally take 100s each month) so that my job is just to shoot. With http://www.dreamyreflections.com she is more than happy to do the selection/upload/organizing part. Actually, in her own words, “organizing is so intuitive in this thing that I don’t have to think much”. Also, when in doubt, she “hides” photos that are not great, and later we sit together and “unhide” it after doing some minor photoshop adjustments.

Also, some of my friends are okay to signup to see the photos, but most of my non-tech-savvy users that I send to just wanted a link and click on it, add annotation and be done with it. This (like most sites) offered me both.

I have a feeling, dreamyreflections.com is what you may be looking for.

Oh one another thing, I was able to do side-by-side shooting condition comparison of all the photos in a given set (they call it film-roll). This helps me understand how to use my camera better –and which setting is the best for a given situation, etc. Actually, I learned a lot about how to make the best use of my 5D using this site!.

Best of luck… let me know if you (or anyone) finds something even better than this. I would like to give it a try.

By: Elle B

Elle B — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:00:27 +0000

i really appreciate this. i’ve been going back ad forth for days. my main concern – above all else – is how simple it will be for my family and friends to access my album. i’m not so into sharing…:)

By: Haifeng Chen

Haifeng Chen — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:59:30 +0000

Haifeng Chen:

Saying the tools, I wrote a image viewing program (Windows) which can access both picasa and flickr on your computer just like viewing the images on your local machine. You can also create album, upload photo, rename photo or delete photos just the same as on your local machine. It is a freeware. Try if you like.

You can download from http://www.colorstorm.com.cn/en/

By: Haifeng Chen

Haifeng Chen — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:58:13 +0000

Saying the tools, I wrote a image viewing program (Windows) which can access both picasa and flickr on your computer just like viewing the images on your local machine. You can also create album, upload photo, rename photo or delete photos just the same as on your local machine. It is a freeware. Try if you like.

By: Gnout Yuh Od (GYO)

Gnout Yuh Od (GYO) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:59:56 +0000

I like Picasa Web

http://picasaweb.google.com/zgnoutz <-- My Picasa Web Album

By: Gnout Yuh Od (GYO)

Gnout Yuh Od (GYO) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:59:56 +0000

I like Picasa Web

http://picasaweb.google.com/zgnoutz <-- My Picasa Web Album

By: arizonajobs

arizonajobs — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:54:40 +0000

Yeah, we are going through this website. and we are getting more knowledge from this website. thanks.

By: Stace

Stace — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:18:02 +0000

I think the current Flickr (May 09) is a mess—at least in terms of slideshows. The simple act of arranging your photos in a specific order is an ordeal, which even Flickr Support admitted in a reply to me was “sucky.” And I hated the way the slideshow operated: no manual advancing of slides, descriptions up in a corner (with unneeded info always displayed),etc. And if I wanted to use the home page as my slideshow, only the first screen would display them at a decent size. So I looked into Picasa and found it to be highly superior to Flickr in these particular areas. Flickr’s got the name-brand that automatically attracts new users. To all of them I say, check out Picasa too!

By: Faye

Faye — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:33:52 +0000

Flickr sucks…I reached my limit and so there was a bunch of photos that was put on “storage” aacdg to them and the only way I’ll be able to view them is when I deleted the most recent ones… But that was not the case…I deleted my recently posted photos…and was still not able to view the old ones… I was told to wait for a week for the photos to re-upload but that passed and nothing happened…So, I emailed them again and was told…all my photos are gone and the problem was blamed on me- for they said I deleted all of ‘em!!! I mean, seriously?! How can I possibly delete photos that I cannot even view and thus, unable to select to be deleted!!! And why would I delete photos that I am trying to retrieve?!?!

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By: Adam S

Adam S — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:19:34 +0000

Are you crazy? There is *no* limit of Flickr’s paid photos, only the free version, which limits you to 200. You can share as many photos as you’d like, you can create as many “sets” and “collections” as you’d like once paid, even the free version lets you do three. You do NOT need Flickr software for anything – even editing photos, and you absolutely can share a URL via email. Your payment for Flickr, like Google and most other services, is non-refundable.

Snapfish SUCKS and requires users to register just to see your photos, and I used Shutterfly for prints once and the quality sucked. I think you’re nuts or attempting to troll us.

By: Danya

Danya — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:48:36 +0000

Flickr limits the number of photos you can share, though allowed to create albums and collections of albums, you can only share One album. You cannot copy the URL addresses and put them into an e-mail. You must use their programs to send your pictures. If you pay for the expanded service, be warned it is a NON-REFUNDABLE commitment. All you get is additional storage space when you pay more and you still can’t share more than the 200 pictures or one album. Their on-line help is not helpful or friendly. Picasa has much more free memory and allows you to copy the URL addresses into an e-mail so you can share as many albums as you want. Picasa does not have all the fancy printing options, like photobooks, but you can do that with another program, like my publisher or snapfish, or shutterfly.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:59:31 +0000

Unfortunately Yahoo is killing off Yahoo Photos in favour of Flickr and are not accepting any more members. If Yahoo Photos was such a great site, what’s the logic in such a decision???

By: picOrFlick

picOrFlick — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:12:04 +0000

Picasa does not allow for enough privacy of your photos. All that one needs is your url to see your album - 'unlisted' or not. What if you send an 'unlisted' URL to your friend who then forwards it to someone else who you didn't want to be able to see the album ?

That way, flickr has given an additional level of privacy - one where you can restrict viewership to those flickr ids that YOU choose. They have to log in and see it. In addition to that, flick has the 'unlisted' and public options that picasa offers.

Would picasa add that level of privacy in the future ?

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:56:31 +0000

> Any free service available which can do this for me ?
I use our KoffeePhoto photo sharing service. It consists of a Picasa like desktop software taking care of the upload tasks and a free online space for sharing pictures.