Time to move on.<p>I mainly used Picasa Web Albums because of its seamless integration with the Picasa Desktop Application. I guess the integration will not work with Photos.<p>Photos is mobile-oriented to the point that is almost useless on desktop. My photos were moved, but I have no idea if the permissions were kept. All the albums moved to &quot;collections&quot; have a &quot;shared&quot; label in the list, but then when I go to the specific collection and press &quot;Sharing options&quot; the &quot;anyone with the link&quot; is not selected; does this means they made all my photos public? Also, I have no idea how to give somebody a link to my &quot;Photos&quot; page (all collections).<p>Also seems that having the link to the &quot;shared&quot; collection empowers anyone to download the full photos at the uploaded resolution. This was available in Picasa only as a per-album option (and the user needed to have the Picasa browser extension to do so).<p>Well, this means I don&#x27;t have to pay Google for storage anymore. Also that I have to find a new place for my photos and a way to integrate it with (a) desktop application.