Google's photo manager, Picasa, comes as a desktop application
as well as a web app called Picasa Web Albums.
You can find it at http://picasaweb.google.com, and you can log
in with your Google Account. After accepting the terms
of service, start by clicking the Upload Photos button.
as well as a web app called Picasa Web Albums.
You can find it at http://picasaweb.google.com, and you can log
in with your Google Account. After accepting the terms
of service, start by clicking the Upload Photos button.
and it has a title, a description, and optionally a location.
A public
album can be found by others using the Picasa search
tool, so naturally it
shouldn't contain any photo content that you
don't feel comfortable sharing with
the world—and remember
that sometimes, things you upload may "survive" on the
Web
and leave their marks in the future even when you delete them
later on. The
other option is to make the album unlisted.
Unlisted albums won't be made
available to strangers, but you can
still share their URLs with friends. It's
sort of in-between a web
page that is password-protected and a web page that is
public.
option or an advanced version. To use the advanced
uploader,
you need to approve a security dialog to install a special browser
plug-in. The advantage of the advanced uploader is an instant
thumbnail preview,
along with the ability to drag and drop images
from your hard disk onto the
preview area
Note that you can buy additional storage space as part
of
Google's Shared Storage service. Just follow the
Upgrade Storage link on the
upload page; the current rates
are $20 per year for 10 GB up to 400 GB for $500
per year,
paid with Google Checkout. As a bonus, you will be able
to share this
storage space with your Gmail account.
When your photos are uploaded and public, other people can
browse them, zoom
into them if your original image is bigger
than the default display size, link
to the photo, add comments,
or order prints. Each album can also be watched as a
slideshow.
As album owner, you can also add tags and captions, or connect
a
photo to a real-world location .
