Google Photos gets smarter

Google Photos just gets better and better ...
Soon Google Photos will take your holiday photos for you!

Google Photos gets smarter, automatically creates albums with your best photos | TechCrunch:

Google is Killing Picasa

Killing off Picasa will not be well received by users ...
Whilst this could be seen as a valid rationalisation of Google services, it is not going to make long time users of Picasa at all happy.

Google Is Finally Killing Picasa | TechCrunch:

Google Photos Gets Easier

Google Photos makes photo sharing easier ... 
Google Photos just gets better all the time! Still plenty of opportunities for further enhancement like captions and allowing comments from those who you share with!

Google Photos Gets Easy-To-Use Shared Albums | TechCrunch:

Release Phone Photo Storage

Google Photos helps to free up space on your phone ...
Google Photos gets smarter at releasing photo storage space once your photos have been automatically backed up from your phone.

Google Photos Will Now Help You Free Up Space On Your Phone | TechCrunch:

Google Photos’ Unlimited

Unlimited free storage for your photos ...
Google separates Photos from Google+ and it becomes the best photo storage app around. Unlimited photo and video storage (up to 16 megapixels and 1080p) - what more could you want?

Google Photos’ Unlimited Free Storage Could Clobber Apple’s Expensive iCloud | TechCrunch:

Google Photos Breaks Free

Leaving Google+ behind to become a great app ...
A huge announcement at the recent Google IO developer conference. Free unlimited storage for your photos (max 16MP) and a great app to manage and view them on tablets and phones!

Google Photos Breaks Free Of Google+, Now Offers Free, Unlimited Storage | TechCrunch:

Managing photos online

Good article discussing the online options ...
This is a great article that describes very well the various online options for storing your photos.

The best way to manage your photos online in 2015 | The Verge:

Google+ Photos now in Drive

A welcome addition to Drive ...
Part of the current Google+ reshaping is that the popular Photos component will now be accessible without going through Google+.

Google Now Includes Google+ Photos In Drive | TechCrunch:

IrfanView Photo Editor

Excellent photo editor although a little techy ...
Great free photo editor that is particularly good if you want to convert or change a batch of photos in the same way. Very capable but user interface a little clunky!

Download of the day: IrfanView | News | TechRadar:

Google+ Auto Backup

Great application for smartphone & tablet cameras ...
Google is migrating PicasaWeb over to Google+ Photos and this auto-upload feature is part of that migration. Google Picasa still seems to be a viable standard-alone editing package even though there is also some editing capability within Google+ Photos.

Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users | TechCrunch: