Google Photos 3.0 Released, Bringing Smarter Sharing, Suggestions and Shared Libraries (techcrunch.com) 54
Google is rolling out Google Photos 3.0, which features an AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, "both of which are designed to make the Google Photos app a more social experience, rather than just a personal collection of photo memories," reports TechCrunch. From the report: With the addition of Suggested Sharing, Google Photos will now prompt you to share photos you took by pushing an alert to your smartphone. The feature will identify people in the photos using facial recognition technology and machine learning, which helps it understand who you typically share photos with, among other things. It also looks at the photos you've taken at a particular location, before organizing them in a ready-to-share album by selecting the best shots (e.g., removing blurry or dark photos). You can edit the album if you choose, then share with the people the app suggests, remove suggestions, or add others. Even if your friends or family doesn't use Google Photos, you can share by sending them a link via text or email. A second feature called Shared Libraries is designed more for use with families or significant others. This lets you either share your entire photo collection with someone else, or you can configure it to share only selected photos -- for example, photos of your children.
Sooo... (Score:5, Insightful)
What do I use if I just to manage a personal collection of photo memories?
I guess Picasa worked too well so they killed it.
digiKam - runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.digikam.org/about/ [digikam.org]
"What is digiKam?
digiKam is an advanced open-source digital photo management application that runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. The application provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and sharing photos and raw files."
"Highlights
You can use digiKam's import capabilities to easily transfer photos, raw files, and videos directly from your camera and external storage devices (SD cards, USB disks, etc.). The application allows you to configure import settings and rules that process and organize imported items on-the-fly.
digiKam organizes photos, raw files, and videos into albums. But the application also features powerful tagging tools that allow you to assign tags, ratings, and labels to photos and raw files. You can then use filtering functionality to quickly find items that match specific criteria.
In addition to filtering functionality, digiKam features powerful searching capabilities that let you search the photo library by a wide range of criteria. You can search photos by tags, labels, rating, data, location, and even specific EXIF, IPTC, or XMP metadata. You can also combine several criteria for more advanced searches. digiKam rely on Exiv2 library to handle metadata tag contents from files to populate the photo library.
digiKam can handle raw files, and the application uses the excellent LibRaw library for decoding raw files. The library is actively maintained and regularly updated to include support for the latest camera models.
The application provides a comprehensive set of editing tools. This includes basic tools for adjusting colors, cropping, and sharpening as well as advanced tools for, curves adjustment, panorama stitching, and much more. A special tool based on lensfun library permit to apply lens corrections automatically on images.
Extended functionality in digiKam is implemented via a set of plugins. You can easily customize digiKam by enable and disable individual tools, dedicated especially to import and export contents to remote web-services."
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Same reason you use keywords. To catalog your photos for easy retrieval.
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I agree, but Digikam, once you get past the fairly unintuitive UI, can emulate most workflows found in Picasa. The facial recognition is not great but apart from that I'm a very happy user, with 50,000 pictures.
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Picasa was a fucking piece of bastard shite.
Unless it was an exercise in how not to design a UI, in which case it was a roaring success.
Tongue not in cheek (Score:5, Insightful)
The feature will identify people in the photos using facial recognition technology and machine learning, which helps it understand who you typically share photos with, among other things.
Indeed. Practically zero chance for misuse by the larger fraternal sibling.
Sounds like an NSA project to me. (Score:1)
You'd have to be stupid to use anything Google does, from this point on.
Pity about Picasa (Score:4, Insightful)
Is there anything at all about this "feature" that doesn't seem at best creepy and intrusive?
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Is there anything at all about this "feature" that doesn't seem at best creepy and intrusive?
I seem to have missed the bit about how it's compulsory to install this on your computer and phone.
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Fortunately, nobody has missed the bit about you being a supercilious asshole.
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People who spend their lives with their head crammed up their fundament often miss a lot.
Just sayin'.
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Is there anything at all about this "feature" that doesn't seem at best creepy and intrusive?
Creepy? Noooo. It ll be fun! No one forces you to upload your photo on the internet. If you do, just accept the consequenses...
A bit of explanation please? (Score:1)
WTF is "Google Photos"? Is it an app on Android? Something available on smartphones only? Is there a Windows, macOS and Linux version?
Sent from my C=64.
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Please show us your C64 setup with the Internet and /.. :P
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Here you go [tinypic.com]
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Ha ha ha! Show us your details on its software and hardware setups. Basically, a howto guide. :P
AI??? (Score:3)
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Google Photos puts photos of my dog under the heading 'Cats'. And they want this AI to control cars on public roads?
I really don't think driverless cars are going to favour one species over another when it comes to deciding whether to swerve/brake to avoid them or not.
RIP Picasa (Score:4, Interesting)
And yet, still no option to sort an album by filename, despite many people requesting it for years. Picasa could do it.
They killed off Picasa, promised feature parity within a year, did not deliver, and isn't even close to delivering.
There's so many low hanging fruit features that Google could trivially add to their products to make them massively more useful, but they don't.
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I had a Picasa account. When Google offered to "migrate" my photos, I took them down and closed it...even before the axe fell.
Why (simple question) (Score:1)
If I take our picture and I want to share it with you - WHY MUST I also share a copy with G FB NSA etc?
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If I take our picture and I want to share it with you - WHY MUST I also share a copy with G FB NSA etc?
You could always try not using Google if you're that worried.
Crazy, huh?
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"You could always try not using Google if you're that worried."
Yeah, there's so many search engines out there in the same league.
Weird, huh!
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By using the one, you're going to wind up using the other...or being used by it.
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Because they love Love LOVE you!
I like google photos, but these AI features only.. (Score:2)
I like Google photos, but these AI features are annoying and only get in the way of using it. For those who don't know, Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing service. It is the biggest freebie of the modern internet, which seems to be strangely ignored by most of people. Simply install the G Photos app on an Android or iOS smartphone, or on a PC, and your photos are automatically uploaded to their servers. The service is completely free if you agree that your photos are compressed to somethin
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I'm tired of being spied in all ways possible. What I really want is the old paradigm: I get services/goods for money and not for letting you spy me. Some services have both options (which is nice), but many don't even give you the option of paying.