![]() The first thing I did was to swap around the automatic uploads on my phone from Google Photos to Flickr. In any case, for me, the important part is that my photos are automatically uploaded to the cloud, and I can find them again later. They also offer a map search, but it is a bit convoluted and not as easy to use as in Google Photos where I can search for “Taipei”, and it will locate all the photos taken in Taipei. They make it relatively easy to browse photos by date which is how I usually locate old photos (for example I may want to look up photos from an old trip, so I typically go back to the date of the trip to look at the photos).They have automatic sync from my phone to the cloud (if you are on their Pro plan).I honestly did not even know they were still around, but it looks like an acquisition by Smugmug in 2018 has breathed new life into them.Īfter looking at various other alternatives, I finally settled on Flickr. ![]() Flickr was pretty successful at the time, but over many years it was acquired by various companies, and its fortunes seemed to have dwindled. Long ago, there was a product called Flickr. And that integrates beautifully with the products we already use. I think that is how they trap us in the first place by creating products that work great. Not just the process of migrating away, but the products that one replaces them with will often-times not measure up to the convenience and ease of use of the products by big tech. But, since the whole aim of this exercise is to get away from these big tech companies, I have to look elsewhere.Īnd thus comes my first realisation: moving away from these big companies is often going to be painful. The only other products that come close to it is Apple iCloud and Microsoft OneDrive. You can search by the location, the content, photos of a specific person and Google Photos find it almost every single time. Uploading photos from the phone is seamless, and finding any photo five or ten years later is ridiculously simple. I have looked at various other alternatives, and nothing even comes close to it. Frogr projects are saved with the “.frogr” extension, and you can easily open them by right-clicking on their icon and selecting “Open With -> Frogr.As part of a process of limiting my exposure to Google products, I am migrating my photo storage from Google Photos.įirst off, I think Google Photos is an amazing product. Just select “File -> Save As…” and enter the project name. You can save the current work as a project and then open that project later.Ĭreating a project is simple. Now, suppose you’ve added multiple photos to Frogr and are editing their details before uploading, but you want to close the application and resume the work later for some reason. Note that we’ve used only one image in our example, but that doesn’t mean you can’t batch upload – of course you can. This way you can perform the basic upload operation. ![]() If the upload is successful, the image will disappear from the Frogr UI, and you’ll see a notification in the Flickr web app about a new upload.Ĭlick the “Refresh” button, and you’ll see that the image you’ve uploaded through Frogr appears in your Flickr account. Once you’re done with the editing part, you can easily start the upload process by selecting “File -> Upload All” or clicking the orange-colored up arrow button on the top. And finally, there are also some other properties that you can set, like whether or not you want the image to show up in Global. Then there are text boxes where you can specify title, description, and tags. As you can see, you can set the visibility, safety level, and license type, as well as specify the type of content. ![]()
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