[digiKam-users] Migrating form Picasa for Windows

[Jozef Riha]

Hi, I cannot really comment on face detection - I'd say you'll just have to
try that - maybe on a smaller sample and see how the recognition works
(performance, accuracy). digiKam also reads the existing face tags if
Picasa stored them into files. A few things that I did notice when
switching my parents from Picasa (Linux) to digiKam (Linux) are:
  - there is no way how to make albums appear as a flat list (in Picasa if
you have a/b, a/b/c, a/b/c/d you'll get albums b c d, digiKam does not
support this). You may or may see this as an issue (a matter of preference).
  - I kinda miss the Picasa's search bar in the upper right corner - very
easy to filter the album(s) I want to see, digiKam's search is very
versatile but IMHO not that efficient
  - editing options of digiKam are far superior, extra tools are nice
  - for me the cloud features of Picasa stopped working years back but that
could be because I was using it on Linux (haven't checked in depth)

Cheers, jose

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:26 AM Alan Jones <asjones987 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been following Digikam for a while now, but have not made the
> "jump". I have long used Picasa desktop for Windows with face detection
> etc. How well do things transfer? What experiences have others had with
> migrating and using Digikam and leaving Picasa?
>
> I have been watching the face detection work and wonder if now is the time
> to look at migrating.
>
>
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