How to Transfer your Photo Library from Flickr to Google Photos (for free!)

For many, many years, Flickr was my favourite online tool. For a few of those years, it was my favourite social network. But as with all things internet, due to changes to its design and the evolution of its community and my discovery of other tools, my love for it faded. It's been many months since I've used it at all. (Instagram is, obviously, my new photo-sharing love.)

So when I dove deep into Google after switching from an iPhone to an Android phone, I started wondering if it's possible to transfer my Flickr photo archive to Google Photos.

I still don't fully understand how Google Photos, Google+ and Picasa interact, but I do know that a photo in one of those places seems to be a photo in all of them.

So I dug around a little, and found a web-based app called Flickr to Google Plus. It's free, its instructions are easy to follow, and it worked like a charm.