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> With Google Photos you can store unlimited high quality photos High quality does not mean the full original quality, right? This is then as before. At the m
by albertzeyer 11y ago
> With Google Photos you can store unlimited high quality photos
High quality does not mean the full original quality, right? This is then as before.
At the moment, there are three web interfaces to access your photos:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ https://picasaweb.google.com/
https://plus.google.com/photos/yourphotos https://plus.google.com/photos/yourphotos
https://photos.google.com/ https://photos.google.com/
I would switch to the latest version but the other interfaces still have their advantages too.
E.g. the old Picasa interface provides the best overview of all my albums (I have a lot: 1619), esp when I want to search an older one (they go back to 2004). Also, it has somehow the most compact view with the most details at the same time, like all meta information (sharing, tagged people, GPS, exif, ...). For videos though, the Picasa webinterface is somewhat broken. Also tagging people didn't quite work correctly.
The Google+ interface has the nicest way to tag people. And I think the photo editor is only available here?
The new Photos interface looks like the most modern one, but otherwise seems to have the least amount of features. Tagging people doesn't really work here. The photo editor is much stripped down compared to Google+. Also, it doesn't really show much meta information (no GPS? almost no exif, etc...).
- kanwisher 11y agoThis has become a serious bit of confusion, also now google seems to index any photos and videos inside of google drive into photos. Which is not the behavior you would want. I wish they just went back to only picasa, its really been the only good photo management situation
- kuboa 11y ago> also now google seems to index any photos and videos inside of google drive into photos It's optional, I personally love and benefit from it. You can turn it off in the settings.
- bwang29 11y agoAs a photo editor developer, it has been difficult to see how the uploading/dowloading/creating API call via old Picasa Web Data API will evolve overtime. Right now the Google Drive API seems to be the most robust and if you are looking for extra editing functionality, we built something for Google Drive like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/polarr-photo-editor-3-for/gdfmmnaccahhpnadlopcfnpkjegchnik?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/polarr-photo-edito...
- jordonwii 11y agoMake that 4: Google Photos show up in Drive now, as well.