IMO, Picasa is the best photo management program out there. If you have a digital camera, you should have Picasa, as it will allow you to sort, send, edit, crop, print, and share all your pictures. (It’s also free.)
This tutorial shows how to use Picasa to upload pictures to an online album. At the end of these steps, you will be able to select certain pictures, upload them to an online album, and send the link to friends to view the photos. For example, I uploaded the pictures of a recent conference held in Brazil, SA.
Here are the steps:
Intro: the online album will be available at http://picasaweb.google.com, which is the online webspace that Picasa uses to share photos.
1. First, you need a Google username. Google is the creator of both Picasa and Picasaweb, and to be able to log in and upload your photos you need to register a username and password. To register follow this link.
2. Open Picasa. (If you don’t have Picasa installed yet, follow this link.)
3. If you want to upload an entire folder of Picasa pictures, then simply right click on the name of the folder and there is a menu that pops up and one of the options is called Upload to Web Album.
Otherwise, select the pictures you want, and click the “Hold” button for each, and then click the WebAlbum button that is right beside the Email and Print buttons.
4. It will ask you for your Google username and password.
5. Once you do that, it’ll bring up another dialog box asking for the title of the album and some other things. You can choose to add the photos to an already existing album or you can create a brand new album with a different username.
Quality-wise, it is a good idea to just leave the quality setting on the default of “Optimized: Large size, fast upload”
You may also choose privacy settings. If you hope to send the photo album to friends, always choose the “Public” option.
6. Click OK and it will begin uploading.
7. Once the pictures are done uploading, the program will offer to take you to the online album. Otherwise, you can see your photos at any time by going to this link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/yo
For example, if you registered the Google account name of “ColdplayFan” then you would go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/ColdplayFan
8. Done! You may share your online album with anyone you like.
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Hannah
I believe that you’re right about the amazingness that is Picasa, but my own personal problems with it are that we host most of our pictures on the home network and I can’t get picasa to find, let alone load them to the program. Secondly something musta got messed up with my settings because if I DO upload pictures using the online form (without having picasa actually open) it only lets me upload one at a time. blah. Now I understand that if I put the pictures somewhere else that’s kinda my fault and the other issue is just weird and a result of the first, so here’s to the wow-ness of PICASA anyway!
Amber
I love Picassa Web albums. I can’t use it for photo management (I’m a Mac Girl) but with the iPhoto plugin, I can export my photos and spread them around the internet. They changed the software around and I lost some of the cool features (may just be the browser, Safari is very limited in some web scripts), but I love it and nearly use it for all my online photo sharing.