Comments on: Flickr vs. Picasa Web Albums

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:29:56 +0000

What you said about Flickr having a 1,000 MB limit is incorrect.

Flickr allows free users to upload an unlimited number of photos, but it will only display the most recent 200. All of your photos beyond 200 will remain online. You can see these again if you upgrade to a Pro account.

Another way to see them is by adding them to groups. Then they will always be visible.

By: jeprie

jeprie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:34:29 +0000

Really usefull info. I guess i’ll use picasa. thanx for the review

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:46:47 +0000

Thank you so much for the review. This is just the information I was looking for to make my decision!!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:54:18 +0000

Your review was perfect. All the things I was just trying to find out about Flickr vs. Picasa. Thank you so much!

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:13:32 +0000

I also use Snapfish. I don’t think of Snapfish as a photo-sharing site, but as an online print shop. As a result, most of the functionality seems designed around ordering prints. It’s the only site that I upload full-resolution pix to, and there doesn’t seem to be much of a storage limit, it’s just that every year or so they tell you to order something (anything) or they will take down your pictures. I’ve used it to publish wedding pix so that friends and family can order prints (you can “invite” people to view pictures), and I’ve used it to upload pix to print, or create books from.

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:03:29 +0000

I’m using Picasaweb. I got the $25/year deal, and am gradually uploading my albums. I also use a Mac, and there is a standalone uploader (works well), and one built into Iphoto (ties up Iphoto and frequently crashes). I hear that there’s a Picasa for for the Mac that just came out.

One great feature of Picasaweb is that you (or your friends) can upload pictures via email. By using an existing album as a subject, you can upload to that album. This makes Picasaweb great for groups (you can link to the path of an empty album, and wait for the photos to come in). One serious weakness of Picasaweb is lack of folders (or albums containing albums), and limited sort options (only choice is by album or upload date, not by album name). One can, of course, create multiple Google accounts, but I don’t think they can share paid storage.

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:24:49 +0000

To keep this thread up-to-date:
Other free on-line photo storage sites are :-
1. photoshop express (2 GB)
2. myPitcureTown (2 GB)
3. SnapFish (2 GB)

Other than creating accounts, I have not used them so far.
Thanks Kishore!

By: Schwizer

Schwizer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:31:47 +0000

I started with Flickr.

I switched for 2 main reasons. Uploader crashed frequenly and the free version of flickr did not allow me to upload full resolution pictures.

Am happy with picasa now.

By: Kishor

Kishor — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:18:47 +0000

You can just create another Gmail account for Picasa if you want to keep your IDs seperate.

And I dont think Picasa has as advanced options like Flickr to prevent downloading but you can enable Picasa to avoid search engines too.

Hope that helped
Kishor.

By: Nova

Nova — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:52:29 +0000

Hi there, great review!! I’m using Flickr (free) and the bandwith limitation is no good. I was thinking about Picasa but I’m not sure its security: at Yahoo your ID Account can be different from your Flickr Username (ID) and if you don’t share the email, your Y!ID Account is unknown.
In Picasa if I register a gmail account, my Picasa ID will be the same OR can I change the picasa ID (username)? I’m not talking about the URL, but the owner username, like Flickr.

Secound, is there an option to prevent downloading? I know the tricks to download practically anything, but still, not everyone knows. They don’t use flash-slide do they?

I’m sure I want Picasa or something else now, maybe a website of my own using flash slideshow, I’ve it and works fine, the only problem would be insert descriptions, tags and avoid search engines. Btw, can I choose at Picasa ‘avoid search engines’? I’m sorry about so many questions but this was the best review/opinions I found so far, would be very grateful is anyone could help!
Thank you again! My best!