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• PICASA ALTERNATIVE 2016 FOR FREE

There were four key pieces of data I wanted: Having settled on digikam, I needed to get the metadata out of the PMP files and into the EXIF/IPTC data. And I don’t think I’ll have problems with metadata lock-in it can write metadata to the image files if you want, and its databases are sqlite3 databases, which means I’ll have no problems exporting data from them someday if need be. It also doesn’t care how you organize the files on disk it even has nice support for accessing your images over a network share. I haven’t found any other tools with as much power to inspect embedded metadata, and its UI is fairly similar to Picasa’s. I hope that the developer continues to expand its capabilities, and someday, it might be a viable Picasa replacement.Īfter looking at a variety of image management desktop applications, the one that seemed the most versatile is digikam. tagging and starring is nice, but it doesn’t have the “filter” capability of Picasa, where, for example, you could view only starred images, but have them presented within their albums if you view starred images in Lychee, you’ll see one giant “album” of starred images, with no context as to which albums they might belong.photos are all in one giant directory with unique hashed filenames my photos were already in nice YYYY/MMDD directory structures, and I’m not willing to give that up.But its feature set doesn’t really make it a good Picasa replacement: The nicest web-based photo manager I could find was Lychee. Having given up on cloud-based solutions, I hoped to find a nice Web-based solution that I could host on our home Raspberry Pi, allowing anybody in the family to access and manage the photos, regardless of what laptop (or other platform) they happen to be using.

But the direct photo management isn’t good enough for my purposes. It does have cool searchability, though - you can search for photos of “flowers”, and even if you never tagged or captioned any of your photos with the word “flower” or “flowers”, it can find a lot of flower photos. You can’t control how your photo files are organized into folders (it’s essentially one big bucket), and it doesn’t support starring or tagging images, which is unfortunate. Google Photos is richer, but still isn’t a 1-for-1 replacement for Picasa. Not really good for much more than a backup of our photos.

PICASA ALTERNATIVE 2016 FOR FREE

My first thought was to try to use Amazon Photos or Google Photos because it would be so easy, and I could even get the storage for free (for Amazon, as a prime member - Google is also free, but only if you’re willing to accept reduced resolution on your images).Īmazon Photos turned out to be very feature-incomplete.

I believe the only place to get all the meta data is from the PMP database files. I did find meta data in EXIF for some of my photos, but definitely not all. You may find advice online saying that you can get this information from EXIF/IPTC data in the files, but I believe that refers to previous versions of Picasa. These are stored as PMP files, which presumably is a proprietary format used by the Picasa team. One of the problems with Picasa is that its metadata is stored in databases external to the photos. And speaking of metadata, I really don’t want to lose all the work I’ve done in starring photos, face tagging, and filing photos in albums. If I were to lose all metadata, at least I would have the file organization to help me find photos from that trip to Jamaica in June of 2016, for example.

I’m really happy with this process, and I refuse to give up my directory organization. put some photos into albums - for example, I have an album of “artistic” shots where I might add a few pictures each year.do some face tagging, but I haven’t been 100% consistent about that - there are still thousands of photos with no face tagging.save images in directories named with this convention: YYYY/MMDD - eventname typically, I dump images from my camera into a folder after a trip, or family gathering, etc.I thought I’d share my strategy for anybody who might be in a similar situation. Now that Picasa will no longer be supported by Google, I had to find a replacement. We have about 50,000 images in there with 22,000 tags, stars, album memberships, etc. I’ve used Picasa for over 10 years to manage my family’s photo library.