
If don’t want to use Google Photos, Google plans to create a new place for you to access your data, allowing you to view, download, or delete your Picasa Web Albums. Picasa Web Albums - Google said if you simply "log in" to Google Photos, all your photos and videos from Picasa Web Albums will be there, and you will be able to access, modify, and share most of that content.
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The company will continue to update users along the way, but it emphasised that Google Photos is a "new and smarter product, that offers a better platform for us to build amazing experiences and features". Picasa - Google recommended switching to Google Photos, so you can continue to upload photos and videos using the desktop uploader at /apps.Picasa: What's happening to your photos and videos?

There's no word yet on what that "new place" is or how it'll work.
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Google Photos is a mobile app for Android or iOS smartphones. You can read more about both services from Google's support page. Meanwhile, Picasa Web Albums is a website where you upload and share photos and videos, and you can see the same media in your Google Photos account.
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Picasa is an app that you install on your computer to let you edit and organise your photos and videos on Windows and Mac OS X computers- all while preserving your original media. Picasa: What is Picasa and Picasa Web Albums?

And we've laid out all that information below and more, with the purpose of making this abrupt transition a little easier on you. Google has outlined what you can do with your photos and videos prior to Picasa shutting down. If you're a Picasa diehard, have no fear.
