Which software supports "Import from Picasa"

[ICTag]

Like many, I'm really sad that Picasa has been discontinued as it fitted my needs so well. I've put a lot of time into creating albums, face-recognition and simple editing of photos so I don't want to lose these results.

Which photo-cataloguing software (DAM) supports a migration from Picasa?

Tom

 

[DonA2]

Like many, I'm really sad that Picasa has been discontinued as it fitted my needs so well. I've put a lot of time into creating albums, face-recognition and simple editing of photos so I don't want to lose these results.

Which photo-cataloguing software (DAM) supports a migration from Picasa?

Tom

First Picasa is not dead. I have used it for over 10 years as my main cataloging and editing software. If you download FastStone Image Viewer any photos in Picasa will go to FastStone. If you click "save" in Picasa your edits will go to FastStone.

I like Picasa for editing / cataloging and FastStone for viewing. Good to have both on tap.

 

[Glen Barrington]

If I were running a graphics management software company I'm not sure I'd sink any money into a Picasa conversion utility unless I had Google's blessing and support. People who use Picasa aren't likely to be interested in a high end DAM product, and the bulk of the people who were using Picasa have already switched or are in the process of switching anyway. Potential new converts probably aren't available in the numbers that would make such a utility economically viable.

I do know that ACDSee spent some time and money in researching and creating a Lightroom database importing utility, but there was an obvious and ongoing benefit to something like that.

 

[ICTag]

Thanks Don, Glen,

I'd be surprised if many have migrated from Picasa because it is still a leader in terms of simplicity and usefulness. And I agree, Don, there's no need to abandon it right now. When Google stopped it's Health app they gave Microsoft the interface to enable users to migrate from Google to Microsoft so my guess is they do the same for Picasa if someone wanted to support migration.

I agree moving to a high-end DAM isn't a likely path, but I was thinking along the lines of ACDsee or the like.

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll investigate,

Alan

 

[Russell Evans]

Like many, I'm really sad that Picasa has been discontinued as it fitted my needs so well. I've put a lot of time into creating albums, face-recognition and simple editing of photos so I don't want to lose these results.

I have no experience with this, so can't do more than point you to a link, sorry.

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picasa-lightroom.com

P2Lr is a Free Plugin for Adobe Lightroom that allows you to import your Picasa data into Lightroom. Since P2Lr is a Lightroom plugin, it runs on both Mac and PC… anywhere Lightroom runs.

By importing your photos into Lightroom and running P2Lr, you can preserve all your Picasa Albums, star ratings, face recognition information, captions, and tags. You can optionally save your Picasa photo edits such as crops and color enhancements if you want.

To use P2Lr you do not need to run Picasa, so it can be used even if you no longer have the Picasa executable. As long as you have the Picasa metadata files (.picasa.ini) in your folders along with your photos, P2Lr will be able to reconstruct your Picasa albums, faces, star ratings, etc. All you need to do is run Lightroom, install the plugin, and import your data.

P2Lr performs a one-time transfer from Picasa to Lightroom, so it should only be used when you are ready to stop using Picasa and switch to Lightroom.

Thank you
Russell

 

[Paul Stricklin]

Question I have: Does the program transfer the on image name tag or just a list of names in the image? Large group images are a pain to get tagged correctly. Wouldn't want to loose the actual on image tags. Plus have now processed 19 years of image files using Picasa.

Paul Sticklin

 

[brn]

First Picasa is not dead.

I guess it depends on your definition of dead.

From https://picasa.google.com/

"we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates."

 

[DonA2]

First Picasa is not dead.

I guess it depends on your definition of dead.

From https://picasa.google.com/

"we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates."

If it pops up when required and functions exactly as it always has it must be alive and well. Google has nothing further to do with it. They want users on their cloud system but I and millions more won't be going there. It's on our computers and unless a user deletes it Picasa will keep working just fine.

I download from camera to any of 3 computers, sort into folders, edit then hit save. All appear in FastStone to give a choice of systems for viewing. I find FastStone a bit fussy for editing but very good software.

 

[mballe]

Like many, I'm really sad that Picasa has been discontinued as it fitted my needs so well. I've put a lot of time into creating albums, face-recognition and simple editing of photos so I don't want to lose these results.

Which photo-cataloguing software (DAM) supports a migration from Picasa?

Tom

Mylio can import from Picasa, according to this page

Importing Picasa Library Photos into Mylio

 

[Tomater]

Not sure about all the nice features of Picasa, but at least people and recognized faces are imported by default by Tonfotos. It is quite new and still in beta software, but I am using it as a replacement for my family photo archive I store on NAS. Tonfotos was able to import my albums and recognized faces, so I did not have to re-tag them from scratch. And it did not require any plugin and so on, it just worked. Strange, as this feature is not even advertised on their website.

 

[Tomater]

The link is dead (404).

 

[Austinian]

The link is dead (404).

No surprise, as the thread you're replying to is from 2017.

 

[AnthonyL]

The link is dead (404).

No surprise, as the thread you're replying to is from 2017.

Mylio is active even if that particular URL isn't.

But more to the point, new poster promoting new photo software which has Russian origins. Not sure I'd be prepared to install anything knowingly coming from Russia at this time, either as a matter of principle or of security.

 

[Austinian]

The link is dead (404).

No surprise, as the thread you're replying to is from 2017.

Mylio is active even if that particular URL isn't.

But more to the point, new poster promoting new photo software which has Russian origins. Not sure I'd be prepared to install anything knowingly coming from Russia at this time, either as a matter of principle or of security.

Neither would I, but I had no idea of the software's origin. Thanks for the warning. Thread locked.