This is how it works. You install the Picasa software on your computer and configure the photo folders that should be monitored. Picasa automatically creates albums and allows you to organize the photographs in various manners, using all of Google's search experience and classification. On top of that, Picasa recognizes the facesof all the people in the photos, allowing an even more precise classification. That solves the forst problem.
But there are still many GBs of photos that we need to store in a safe place. Picasa helps with that, too. Is there a safer place for a file than the Google servers? Each album created inside Picasa installed on your computer can be sent to Picasa Web Albums automatically, and you'll have your online copy of your photos and videos without having to worry about scheduling periodic backups.
Picasa Web Albums also allows photos to be shared with the people you choose, or even public. On top of that, the changes you make to your photos on your computer are also reflected on your album online. Picasa my needs in terms of image and video backup. I don't need to worry about copies of my photos on my weekly image and video backup anymore, which has gotten much smaller and faster.
Picasa Web Albums allows up to 1GB of free online photos. But the price for 20GB is derisive, almost symbolic: only 5 dollars a year to keep 20GB of safe and well-catalogued photos. The payment must be made through Google Checkout.
One tip: when sending your photos to the web, fine-comb them, revising, erasing repetitions and rotating photos to the right position. Choose also the photo which shall be the cover of the albums, dragging the photo and putting them in the album's first place. It's faster to do this locally. After everything is tidy, choose each album and click on "Upload". This part can take a long time, depending on the number of photos you have. My 15 GBs of images and videos were almost 10 days in the background being sent do the server, in the moments I used the computer.
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