Keeping tags, etc. when uploading to photos Flickr?
Question 1: Get Adobe Lightroom. It’s terrific for managing photo collections and it’s amazingly fast — much faster than Picasa when dealing with large files like RAW images. This is because Picasa edits the image directly while Lightroom simply shows you changes based on a thumbnail of the image. It’s only when you export that Lightroom merges the changes with the original image to produce an edited final image. LR has extensive EXIF/IPTC settings and allows you to build various EXIF setting sets. LR seamlessly integrates with the Flickr uploader or you can use the Flickr export plugin (which I use). Question 2: Before I started using Lightroom, I was using the picasa2flickr workflow with build 37.23. Picasa would keep updating itself to 37.27 and I would repeatedly install 37.23 to downgrade it. I never noticed any problems with this. Eventually, I wised up and just turned off automatic updating.
