Gallery would like to picasa web albums update#

Google has claimed that, although the Picasa Desktop software is now unsupported and the PicasaWeb website itself will cease functioning on May 1, they have plans to provide “some” of PicasaWeb’s exclusive album features “somewhere” for those of us who have grown accustomed to them. So, if you spotted the link in the wild, you’d know exactly what it was.) Individual one-off sharing might seem sufficient to share photos with your family from the trip you just took, but what happens when your parents want to see photos from the time they visited you three summers ago? Do you think they still have that URL kicking around? How would they even know what to look for when Google Photo’s generated links are long strings of meaningless characters? (For comparison, PicasaWeb created an individual album URL based on the album title.

Gallery would like to picasa web albums update#

Unlike PicasaWeb, Google Photos does not automatically create and update a public gallery page when you create a new public album. Google’s latest photo endeavour, Photos, still allows you to share albums, but a link must be generated for each individual album you want to share. could always visit the same page and see every album you’d ever posted. This meant that your friends, families, clients, colleagues etc. One of the best features of PicasaWeb was the “Public Gallery Page” where all of your public albums were listed. Users could create web-based photo albums with a few different privacy settings available for each individual album.

PicasaWeb Albums is (soon to be was) an online photo album service purchased by Google years ago and maintained (for various definitions of maintained) as a Google product ever since. Today I attempted to create a public photo album gallery page in Google Photos, something PicasaWeb Albums generates automatically for its users but Google Photos does not.

Can I start yet another post with “One issue (among many!) that people are having with the transition from Picasa Web Albums to Google Photos is …”? Well, here goes nothin’!