Comments on: 5 Major Differences — Flickr Vs Picasa & Which One Is Better

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:54:12 +0000

I’m a Google fan, but every time I integrate my Picasa photos to my blog, they get blurry (especially when I resize them). That’s the reason why I prefer Flickr over Picasa.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:54:45 +0000

In reply to Mary. Mary. If you are a gmail user the easy answer is Picasa. If you are not a gmail user, consider signing up as the integration of google offerings including Picasa is great.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:46:53 +0000

I’m out here looking for opinions on the different places, because I just upgraded my flickr account to a pro account so that I could create a collection of a recent photo trip with sets of the different places I photographed on that trip. I needed more space to do that, and it seemed worth the $25 to me because there were people NOT on flickr with whom I wanted to share the collection. Got it all finished and tried to share – only to find out that you CAN’T share a collection! Only sets. *sigh*. So, I tried to share my photostream, thinking that the person(s) I shared with could find the collection in the complete photostream, and though it wouldn’t be as concise, it would still work. Negative. The new photos added to the recently upgraded Pro account do NOT show up when the photostream is shared. Only the older pictures. I tried the “Help” section – nothing, except that collections can’t be shared. I tried e-mailing “Help” and got only canned responses. So. If photos are in a collection in a photostream, are they blocked from viewing? AARRGGHH!! I decided to switch to a different service. But WHICH one?

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:31:32 +0000

In reply to Kenny Bain. After you reach the 200 limit, you can still continue to upload pictures. Flickr just hides your older pictures. You can still use it, but you can only view 200 pictures at a time. If you upgrade to pro, they will show you all the pictures you have uploaded in the past (if you did not delete them).

By: Kenny Bain

Kenny Bain — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:46:23 +0000

Flickr although free is actually more limited than Picasa – without a Pro account you are limited to only 200 items (photos) to upload in total which is quite a restriction. It is not possible to add more items above this even once the monthly counter has been reset on the upload limit

By: Hamster

Hamster — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:00:47 +0000

In reply to mike.

But you don’t need to change your email or indeed change anything at all! No switching of anything needed.

All you’re doing is signing up for a yahoo account in order to log in to Flickr. Nothing else needs to change *at all*.

You do *not* need to set up Yahoo as your home page. Furthermore there’s nothing stopping you subsequently changing your home page to anything you wish.

By: david donaldson

david donaldson — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:18:01 +0000

There is no doubt in my mind picasa is far superior and easy.I tried flicker .What a nightmare trying to upload photos,even with their uploader.Total photos uploaded after 2 hours ZERO.I could not even upload photo for profile..

By: mike

mike — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:29:30 +0000

In reply to jsm1963. Yes- but I get my email etc from another service and don't want to switch that's all. Also another time I tried to sign up they wanted me to set up yahoo as my home page. Maybe they have changed.

By: jsm1963

jsm1963 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:12:39 +0000

In reply to mike. Isn't Safari just a browser?

By: mike

mike — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:25:11 +0000

With Flickr it seems like you have to get a yahoo acct or go through facebook I really don’t want a yahoo acct or to go through facebook- am I wrong? I use Safari and have no desire to change to yahoo

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:40:26 +0000

Flickr has a 200 picture limit, unless you upgrade to Pro.

By: Yamashita

Yamashita — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:34:26 +0000

I already used both, that are good services with nice features, but recently I moved to Tabday.com, that offer a better way to organize my photos.

By: zalam

zalam — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:39:08 +0000

what about Pbase ???
This is one of the best original photo sharing websites, which still ranks on top by Alexa. In the few hundreds.
If anybody familiar, how would you compare Pbase to Picasa or flickr ?

By: Ofek

Ofek — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:52:43 +0000

I’ve been using Flickr for a year and a half now and ever since the beginning I found Flickr services very efficient in every aspect I’ve been looking at (Flickr, btw, also has Picnik software on the site).
As it was not mentioned, Flickr also has a paid version which is called “Pro” and costs 20$ a year, for completely unlimited storage space. On the other hand, free users have a limited space of 200 photos in their photostream (meaning, it will only show the newest 200 photos, but if you convert to pro all of the other photos will come back since they are kept online, just can’t be viewed).

By: jsm1963

jsm1963 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:46:10 +0000

As I discovered this summer, if you reach your limit on Flickr you cannot even clear up space until the following month. I don’t think that’s the case with Picasa (I don’t think I’ve ever reached my limit there).