![]() Developers can learn more here.Īgain, none of these changes are happening today, and we’ll continue to update you along the way. If you choose to switch to Google Photos, you can continue to upload photos and videos using the desktop uploader at /apps.įinally for developers, we will also be retiring some functions of the Picasa API. For those who have already downloaded this-or choose to do so before this date-it will continue to work as it does today, but we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates. We’ll start rolling out these changes on May 1, 2016.Īs of March 15, 2016, we will no longer be supporting the Picasa desktop application. One thing to make clear is that none of this is happening today-if you have a Picasa Web Album you can keep using it as normal. That way, you will still be able to view, download, or delete your Picasa Web Albums, you just won’t be able to create, organize or edit albums (you would now do this in Google Photos). However, for those of you who don’t 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() We’ve outlined below some of the changes you can expect. 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 know for many of you, a great deal of care has gone into managing your photos and videos using Picasa-including the hours you’ve invested and the most precious moments you’ve trusted us with. 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. After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. You can view, download, or delete your Picasa Web Albums data on this page. 2: The album archive page for Picasa Web Albums is now live. ![]() If you want to upload photos and videos to Google Photos, you can use Backup and Sync at /apps. Please note, you’ll still be able to access all of your photos and videos in Google Photos at. Note: The transferring time depends on how big your albums are.Update March 26, 2018: The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or download photos and videos, create online albums, or delete online photos, videos and albums. You will be notified that albums are being transferred. Sign out of your current Google Account, and then log in to the destination account. Open the Picasa email in your Gmail inbox, and click on the provided link.ħ. If you are using Blogger service, you can transfer your Blogger albums too.Ħ. A new window will pop up, provide the destination Google account in the field and hit Send email with transfer instructions. Scoll down to the bottom of the page, and click the Migrate my photos link in the Migrate account.ĥ. Click on the small gear icon -> Photos settings.Ĥ. Log in to the Picasa account that contains photos you want to transfer.Ģ. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how.ġ. Instead of re-uploading all of those photos to the new account, you can let Google do it for you. If you have just switched from one Google Picasa account to another, you may wish to move all the photos in the old account with you.
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