PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.

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Piwigo is open source photo management software. Manage, organize and share your photo easily on the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.

Will I be able to keep photos in Picasa while I try Phototheca?

You easily can transfer photos from Picasa to Phototheca. Basically, to get your photos from Picasa to Phototheca you don’t need to do anything special.

Just run Phototheca, go to menu item File->Import to Library, then browse to the folder with your photos, select one or many folders and press the Import button – that’s it.

Phototheca starts the importing process and after a while, all your photos appear in Phototheca. You’ll be able to keep all photos in Picasa while trying Phototheca, it does not move photos away from Picasa. Phototheca does not interfere with Picasa in no way.

Google offers many desirable, easy-to-use, effective features. Going open source is trickier. //

Finding a solution to organizing and safely storing these precious memories is more important than ever, and it's becoming an increasingly large problem to solve. Photos depict a special moment in time, a memory or event that can't be recreated. They are irreplaceable and largely only exist digitally. Because of this, there are few categories of data that suit a free and open self-hosted solution better.

Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. ICE can also create a panorama from a panning video, including stop-motion action overlaid on the background. Finished panoramas can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading them to the Photosynth web site. Panoramas can also be saved in a wide variety of image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, and Photoshop’s PSD/PSB format, as well as the multiresolution tiled format used by HD View and Deep Zoom.

As part of the Data Transfer Project, Facebook has built a tool that allows you to send a copy of your photos and videos to Google Photos. The feature is available worldwide for anyone with a Facebook and Google account to use. Here’s how it works.

Start by visiting Facebook’s desktop website from your Windows 10 PC or Mac. From there, click on the drop-down arrow found in the top-right corner of the window and then select “Settings & Privacy.”

Alternatively, you can head straight to Facebook’s photo and video transfer tool site and skip a couple of steps.

https://www.facebook.com/dtp

Archive your photos and videos and experience your memories again and again. MAGIX Photo Manager helps you maximize your photo and video collection. Edit, sort and organize your photos and videos with ease. Virtual albums allow you to assign the same picture to several collections without having to save the image to the hard drive several times. With additional metadata such as names, events or locations, you can search through your photos even faster. Create your own slideshows with impressive transition effects, music and spectacular tracking shots. Share on YouTube or burn straight to CD or DVD.

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• With the update service you will receive a full year of free new features and updates, which can be used indefinitely. If you reinstall the program after one year, you will have access to the basic version. After the one-year update service has expired, you can extend it for a discounted price.

We understand why you are looking for apps like Picasa. It is said that THE BEST image organizer and viewer, reached its end-of-life phase in March 2016. After being acquired by Google, in 2004 from ‘Landscape’, it gained loads of popularity and eventually made it to the top of the list due to the improvements and features that were added. So I am here to help you find the best Alternatives For Picasa

metaSave is an example utility using the picasa3meta package to extract and save the metadata from a Picasa library. It will walk a photo tree (specified by --photos) and create a duplicate tree (either in the current working directory or a directory specified by --dest) and for each image found in the original photo tree create a new file with a .meta extension in the destination tree containing the pmp, ini and exiv2 metadata.

picasa3meta is a library of functions for accessing the Picasa3 metadata. See metaSave for an example application.

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Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source

After looking at a variety of image management desktop applications, the one that seemed the most versatile is digikam. I haven’t found any other tools with as much power to inspect embedded metadata, and its UI is fairly similar to Picasa’s. It also doesn’t care how you organize the files on disk; it even has nice support for accessing your images over a network share. And I don’t think I’ll have problems with metadata lock-in; it can write metadata to the image files if you want, and its databases are sqlite3 databases, which means I’ll have no problems exporting data from them someday if need be.

From within Picasa:

Turn on the “show only starred images” filter. Select all images in your entire library, and add the tag “pstar” to them.
For each of your albums, select all images, and add a tag based on the album title, e.g. “palbum-architecture” or “palbum-wildlife”

Once I got the metadata into Picasa tags, I needed to find a way to read the metadata from the Picasa database files. Luckily for me, Wayne Vosberg has built a library to read these PMP files: picasa3meta. I was able to leverage it to build a tool to traverse my entire photo directory structure and extract tags for each file. The tool can then call exiftool to write embedded metadata to the image files. My tool is here: picasa_tags_to_exif.py. My script is very rough, and is intended to serve more as an example than a finished product. I can explain a few things about it.

PicasaStarter enhances Picasa and adds the following features:

• You can create any number of Picasa databases and sets of pictures. This allows you to have separate pictures /database sets for different projects or uses. For instance separate databases for vacations, hobbies, and jobs.
• Databases can be created in any location, including network drives, and can be shared by multiple computers and users.
• It is very easy to create a portable solution where the pictures and database are on a portable or USB drive. The only thing that must be installed on the computer is Picasa itself. This makes it possible to show and work with your pictures on any computer.
• You can create Shortcuts on your Desktop to start Picasa with each database. This gives one step access to any photo / database set.

NOTE: Unfortunately Picasa is a single user application and is not designed to share databases or pictures. This means even with PicasaStarter only one user at a time can be accessing each database and it's pictures. PicasaStarter warns the user if anyone else is accessing the same database.

To add customized buttons to the Picasa3 program, your computer needs to have a PicasaScripts folder for .BAT (batch command) files and an ExifTools.exe file, plus a separate Picasa database "buttons" folder for .PBZ (PicasaButtonZipped) files. Follow the directions below to set it up on your computer.

Photo Viewer

With XnView you can browse, organize, and view your images in numerous ways:

Thumbnail View
FullScreen View
FilmStrip View
SlideShow with FX
Images Compare
etc...

Photo Editor

XnView allows you to process your images with an arsenal of editing tools:

Resize, Rotate, Crop
Lossless Rotate & Crop (jpeg)
Adjust Brightness, Contrast, ...
Auto Levels, Auto Contrast
Modify Colors depth & palette
Apply filters & Effects

Create

In addition to exporting to more than 70 Formats XnView lets you create:

SlideShows
Web Pages
Contact Sheets
Video Thumbnails Gallery
File Listings
Strip of Images

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2019, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2019, ACDSee Photo Studio Standard 2019, ACDSee Photo Editor 10, and SeePlus all come with a full set of features to help you manage, view, edit, create, and share photos and documents. Use this chart to see which product is right for you.

To move photos in a Picasa album into ACDSee, I open up Picassa and add a tag corresponding to the album name to all files in an album. Then in ACDSee, I search for all photos with this tag and group them into an album. Unfortunately, you cannot preserve the same sequence you had in Picasa – so you will have to manually drag and drop to recreate that sequence. (Note: With Picasa, I never used tags, but now with ACDSee, I am experiencing how my workflow can make use of them quite extensively)