![]() To use latest version of Picasa on Linux, Linux users can use Wine and install Picasa for Windows. On April 20, 2012, Google announced that they were deprecating Picasa for Linux and will no longer maintain it for Linux. Currently, Google has only officially offered Picasa 3.0 Beta for Linux. Google has announced that there will be no Linux version for 3.5. It is not a native Linux program but an adapted Windows version that uses the Wine libraries. Since June 2006, Linux versions have become available as free downloads for most distributions of the Linux operating system. Linux KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI) export to Picasaweb Version 3.9 also removed integration with Picasa Web Albums for users of Google+. ![]() Version history Windows Īs of January 2015, the latest version of Picasa is 3.9, which supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and has Google+ integration for users of that service. Picasa Web Albums, a companion service, was closed on May 1, 2016. On February 12, 2016, Google announced it was discontinuing support for Picasa Desktop and Picasa Web Albums, effective March 15, 2016, and focusing on the cloud-based Google Photos as its successor. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape and began offering it as freeware. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and macOS were available, and for Linux, the Windows version was bundled with Wine compatibility layer. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures. Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. Also if we could organize our albums into folders in Picasa would really help to improve the overall experience.3.9.141.259 (9 October 2015 7 years ago ( )) ģ.9.141.306 (9 October 2015 7 years ago ( )) Then we can go to Picasa Web and define sharing options, cover image, and permissions. So, now that the storage for both services is the same, my suggestion is to create a “Picasa” or “Picasa Albums” named “magic” folder on Google Drive so that every folder we add inside it will be created as a Picasa Album. ![]() The problem is that there is a lack of integration between Google Drive and Picasa, yes, I can see the pictures online but I don’t have all the tools and features included in Picasa which I really appreciate. ![]() Uploading each folder individually or using the Picasa bulk upload feature was kind of messy, because Picasa actually creates a separate album for each folder I upload. So I decided to just move the “My Pictures” folder inside the Google Drive folder, so that everything gets synced into the cloud, yes, it is taking a while, but it works! I needed to back up my pictures and videos, they are around 80GB of more than 10 years of scanned, and digital pictures I´ve been taking since I had my first digital Epson PhotoPC 650 camera (1 Mega pixel yeah!). As you can imagine I have to get some order to the “My Pictures” folder but until I have time to do so, I really need to have a backup of everything outside my house, you know, just in case… I believe this will make things easier for the end user, but something crucial is missing. Some days ago Google announced that they were going to start considering Google Drive and Picasa space as one storage unit. I am starting to use Google Drive and I´ve been using Picasa for a while now. ![]()
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