Flickr to Picassa

I have a lot of photographs online, some of them have been scanned from the time when digital cameras weren't everywhere and I like to look at them at times. It brings back old memories. And then, Yahoo decided to shut shop and move everyone to Flickr. I had always seen Flickr as a professional photographer's companion. My cousin has a lot of world class pictures there and she gets great comments from the whole community. When I was given the option to move to Flickr, I thought why not ?

But of course, I didn't read the fine print and missed out on the fact that at the end of three months, I would either have to buy the pro membership, or all but the latest 200 of my pictures would be visible. The others would be hidden, for all practical purposes lost. I didn't want to invest $25 per year for hosting and sharing my pictures online. So I looked around the web.

Besides a lot of disgruntled bloggers/yahoo users, I also found this really cool tool , Migratr, which allows me to move all my Flickr pictures to Picassa, with the meta data (the tags, comments intact). It has a simple interface and very easy to use. I just loved it.

Now I have my pictures backed up on Picassa too. If Flickr takes away my pictures, I'll just move to Picassa. The cheers for the Migratr team.

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