#Picasa photo album how to#
#Picasa photo album windows#

However Lightroom does NOT automatically import your Picasa 'Albums' which are distinct from 'Folders'. Note that an earlier post states that Lightroom automatically imports your Picasa folders. If you use it, please let me know how it worked for you. But other than that it has not been widely tested so it's considered beta at this point. I tested it using various test albums and my personal collection of over 33,000 photos.

#Picasa photo album windows#

I have tested the plugin on Windows and Mac, using the latest version of Picasa and Lightroom.

The plugin is called P2Lr and you can find it along with instructions here:

#Picasa photo album how to#

The instructions also explain how to save your Picasa edits (which is not automatic as implied by a posting in this thread). It's a one-time import procedure that only takes a few minutes. Your tags and captions will also be imported automatically. You run it from inside Lightroom and it imports all your Picasa Albums, people/faces, and star ratings. I decided to polish it up and offer it for others to use for free. I searched all over the web and could not find a good solution, so I wrote one myself. I wrote a Lightroom plugin for migrating from Picasa to Lightroom. Many hours of work lost.ĭoes anyone have experience with either method, or advice? Ideally I'd like to have Lightroom know about the edits, so that I have access to both the originals and the edited version within Lightroom. I won't know which photos have been edited, or what I did to them.

Import the photos as-is into Lightroom, and then redo the edits.

(Or equivalently export all my photos to a new directory tree.) I think that Lightroom will ignore the hidden subdirectories, so all history will be lost in Lightroom, and I won't have easy access to the originals any more. Picasa saves a copy of the original in a hidden subdirectory, and then saves the photo with the edits applied.

Save the photos within Picasa before importing into Lightroom.

Thousands of my photos have edits (mostly straightening and crops), which I would like to carry over to Lightroom. The problem is that Picasa is, like Lightroom, a non-destructive editor. Now that Google has announced they're ending support for Picasa (not that it was ever well supported, but at least it was free) I'm thinking about moving to Lightroom. The photos are a mix of my own digital snapshots, and scans of my 35mm film and old family photos. I've been a long time user of Picasa (the Windows desktop application, not Picasa Web Albums), and have roughly 40k photos.