The free 1GB of storage you get with Picasa Web Albums will now stretch a little further: a change in the way usage is calculated means that small image files and videos don’t count towards the total.
Google Operating System notes that pictures smaller than 800 pixels, and videos shorter than 15 minutes, no longer count towards your usage total. That makes using the Picasa Web Albums space particularly appealing for storing pictures for blogs and other online usage.
Store More Photos and Videos in Picasa Web Albums [Google Operating System]
Grim
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:13 AMToo little, too late for me. I went ahead and got myself a Flickr Pro account because Picasa was too small and restrictive (plsu additional space is prohibitively expensive).
Kato
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 11:47 AMI’m with Jesse (below) – you either failed to research properly or you’re a Flickr shill.
Grim
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 12:50 PMSorry neither applies to me.
My other alternative was SmugMug, but for $40/year and no free account (I think it only has a free week trial) I decided to go for Flickr.
I should point out that Flickr and SmugMug both allow unlimited image storage, whereas Google charges in tiers for storage. I don’t know about you but my photo collection tends to grow rather than stay static. Long term Picasa looks like an expensive investment.
Angus – Maybe this would be a good topic for an article? Online photo storage round up?
Craig
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 1:53 PMI think the shill comment is a little uncalled for. I’m a flickr pro user. Last year I considered switching to picasa. I didn’t for a few reasons. I share the account with my wife and it would have been annoying for her to have to sign out and in between her username and mine. The storage you buy is shared between other google services. When I calculated how much it would cost based on current flickr usage it would have been more expensive for picasa, (the $25 is per year, not per month as stated above)
Not that it matters at the moment. I just checked picasa after reading this story and it won’t let me add storage because google apps accounts are not supported. So the error message says when I clicked on add storage.
Jesse Kinross-Smith
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:37 AMProhibitively expensive? No way!
But it does depend how much you store in Picasa I guess.
I did the opposite a while back – I cancelled my Flickr Pro and went for the much cheaper $5/year for 20GB of space and even though I have a lot of photos and store them fully in original size I’ve barely hit 50% of my usage.
You can also pay $20/yr for 80GB with Picasa.
Flickr Pro by comparison is unlimited, but costs $24.95/month
So obviously you need to have stored more than 80GB of photos before it becomes cheaper with Flickr.
Grim
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 11:56 AMFlickr Pro is $25/year not per month.
Every time I go out and take photos, I tend to take 1-2 GB. I think I’m already well on my way to 200 GB – that would be $50/year or more on Picasa.
And yes, I upload all of them for backup purposes.
David
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 11:55 PMAfter a bit of research I have gone with mejuba.com
My reasoning, I will just paste from their homepage:
Unmetered traffic
no restrictions on monthly traffic or quotas
Download of originals
alway access to your uploaded originals
No scaling of photos
uploaded photos and videos are saved in the original form
Unlimited storage
upload and store as many photos and videos as you want
Upload folders
upload folders while retaining your PC folder structure
No filesize limit
upload up to 1GB per upload
For free