Sivaraman's Column-5: "Picasa Web Albums'

Hello, Good Morning! It has been decided now that this will be a weekly column. Okay? Today I am dealing with Picasa Web Albums. Some of you may already know and may have used it. It is for those who are new to Picasa.

First of all, what is Picasa Web Albums?

Picasa Web Albums is one of the services from the Google family and is designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web.

It is available to anyone and offers the following:

1GB of free storage space to post and share approximately 4,000 photos, with the option to upgrade to more space

High-quality photos, automatically resized and optimized to fill available screen space
End-to-end photo management that makes it easy to download uploaded photos back to your computer

To sign up for your own Web Albums, please visit http://picasaweb.google.com/
1. Sign up with your google account.
2. Accept the agreement.
3. You can upload photos in two ways.

Direct upload
Click the upload button provided in your picasa photo page.
Give album title, date, description about the image, place taken and select public or unlisted. If public any one views the image. If you choose unlisted people invited by you only view it.

You can upload five pictures at a time. After selecting the pictures click the start upload button.
Create more new albums by clicking the ‘New Album’ Button.

Using Picasa software
You can use picasa software when you install and open picasa software it searches for pictures in your system and displays pictures as organised. You click any picture and click web album button

It will ask you to enter your username and password of web album account. Enter username and password and click the sign up button.

Give album title, date, description about the image, place taken and select public or unlisted.
You can click the view online button to view the albums when it completes uploading. You will be directly taken to your webalbum page.

4. The uploading is very very fast.
5. Single image upto 20 MB could be uploaded.
6. The quality of the picture is very good.
7. You can embed the slideshow in your blog or web page.
8. The users can view your public albums by visiting
http://picasaweb.google.com/your username

You can invite your friends and family members to visit your private albums by clicking the share album button. Enter the email id’s of your friends and then email albums to your friends.
You can also search for images from there.

See you next! Bye!