After some searching I learned Google’s Picasa photo service allows up to 1gb of photo storage and there are also great tools to share the photos through our family blog. After transferring all of the photos from Flickr to Picasa using a fantastic piece of software called Migratr, the 1,200 or so photos used up about 50% of the storage so there is plenty of room to expand! Picasa also offers face recognition and photo tagging. This is really cool because Picasa will scan the photos for identical faces and tag people in multiple photos that it recognizes as the same person. This worked flawlessly and in about an hour I had all 1,200 photos tagged.
Yesterday I switched the photo gallery on this site over to Picasa using the kPicasa WordPress plugin. I think it looks better than the Flickr plugin I was using before. As the saying goes, things happen for a reason. I wouldn’t have taken the time to transfer all of my photos, but the crappy downgrade from the U-verse – Flickr arrangement forced the issue and in the end I have a much better place for my photos! Since all of the previous posts use Flickr to display my photos I’m scared to see if they disappear once the Flickr downgrade happens in February. I’m really not looking forward to re-linking all of those photos.
