There are some serious problems with their Picasa export (possibly others, I only tried Picasa). First, a good number of my photos simply didn't download - I on

There are some serious problems with their Picasa export (possibly others, I only tried Picasa). First, a good number of my photos simply didn't download - I only got 1328 of my 2283 photos. Second, I uploaded all my photos at their native sizes to Picasa, but the photos I got from Takeout were resized to around 1200x1600. However, my originals are kept by Google and I can download them individually through the Picasa interface, so they must be resizing them specifically for the download. The first strikes me as a bug that will eventually be fixed, but the second seems to be an unfortunate design choice - Google can save money on bandwidth if they downsize your photos, and if you know that what you get when you export is downsized you're less likely to do it. I feel sorry, though, for people whose only copy of some photos is in Picasa.