Picasa vs. Flickr

VS.

Since Google announced its online photo album Picasa, numbers of bloggers had wrote about this another-new-google product. I have already have my Flickr pro account for two years and there are about 3,000 photos there. But because it’s google, I decided to give it a try tonight.

I like its design and all AJAX applications, some of them are even better than Flickr. However in terms of sharing aspect and storage, Flickr is far better than Picasa. Flickr has already had a huge user community and thousands of people uploading photos and sharing on the site, but I hardly find other people’s photos in Picasa’s homepage. For storage, you can pay £24.95 in Flickr for 2G monthly limit, which means if you do be able to upload 2G every month, at the end of the year you can have 24G of photo storage. Whereas Picasa charge you £25.00 for 6G a year. Also, the uploading tools from Flickr is way convenient compare to Picasa’s photo organising software. Actually this online Picasa album is a extend of Picasa photo organiser, so it would be convenient for those who already using Picasa in your computer, but not for those want to use this online album. Like me, I won’t put install this big software just to upload my photos. I had tried this photo organiser before, to be honest it’s quite convenient with those timeline and tag function, but it change my way of organising photos totally and I can’t go back if I install this software, so finally I removed it from hard drive.

After all, I am still going back to my Flickr, because I have already got used to it’s utilization and I’ve got a lot photos there already, there is no point for me to move them or give up it. People say Google launching Picasa is to compete with Flickr, I don’t see it’s happening.