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Google Photos has many features that Picasa does not. Picasa can add text directly to the picture. So, I will continue to use Picasa – then upload my pictures to Google Photos after adding a caption and a watermark. I cannot live without captions! Picasa can add a watermark to your photos. Picasa can add captions to your photos that are stored with the picture file itself and can be viewed by other software. Picasa has some features that Google Photos does not. If you are accustomed to dividing your pictures into folders, this is something you need to UNlearn in order to understand Google Photos. If you delete pictures from your Library, they are gone, they will also be gone from the Albums. If you delete photos from an Album – or even the entire album, the photos are still there in your Google Photos library. If you make Albums, they are simply pointers to the pictures in the main library – like a playlist. If you want custom groupings, you can also make Albums in Google Photos, but it is not required. You do not do anything except click on the view you want. All 50,000 are in one big dump simply called “Photos.” Google Photos then gives you tools to view those photos in different groupings: by day/month/year, by person, by place, by thing. I have roughly 50,000 pictures in my account. There are no ‘folders.’ Your Google Photos library is like one giant shoebox of all your photos. Google Photos works with pictures on the web, in your Google Account. If you delete a folder of pictures from your hard drive they are gone from Picasa’s view. The folders are those folders that you create on your computer’s hard drive, usually within the My Pictures folder. Picasa works with photos, on your computer, in folders.

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If you want Google Photos to upload all the photos currently on your computer, you also need to download the Desktop Uploader from You use Google Photos on your computer thru a web interface at – you must be logged in to your Google Account. You get Google Photos for your iPhone or iPad by installing the free App from the App store.

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Get Google Photos for your Android devices by installing the free App from the Play Store. You have the Google Photos service simply by having a Google Account. It is this history, from PIcasa Web Albums (2006-2012) to Google+ Photos (2012-2015) to Google Photos (2015…) which causes much of the confusion. In its early years, when you uploaded pictures to your Google Account, that was called Picasa Web Albums. It does have a feature to upload photos to the Internet, but that is secondary to its main function.

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It is old-fashioned computer software, like what we used to buy in boxes and install from disks.

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You get Picasa by downloading the free software to your computer from After downloading it, you no longer need the Internet. They use smartphones, tablets, and cloud (Internet) based resources. Google Photos is for people who, potentially, don’t even have a computer. There is no computer software for Google Photos, you use a web-browser interface and, photos must be uploaded to your Google account online to work with them in Google Photos. Google Photos is web-based storage (in your Google Account) of all your photos and mobile Apps and Web interface to work with them. Picasa is for people who want to organize and work with photos on their computer.

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PIcasa is software for your PC or Mac computer to manage photos on your computer. Watch the Google Photos launch video for a great overview. It’s official announcement was in May of 2015.

Google Photos is a brand new product by Google, built from the ground up to be a tool for photos and videos in today’s mobile and cloud world. Actually it started well before that, but it was purchased by Google in 2003 and became extremely popular in the following years. Although it’s true, the two serve very different functions. Saying that Picasa and Google Photos are both photo management tools, is like saying that a car and a jet are both transportation tools. First of all, what is the same about Picasa and Google Photos? Why are we talking about them both in the same article? And, why are both Picasa and Google Photos the subject of this website? It’s because they are both photo management tools by Google.