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How To Share Photos with Picasa Web Galleries

Tim Cinel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:19:30 +0000

In 2010, more photos are viewed on screens than on actual photographic paper. We’re sharing more photos than ever. However, sending large emails packed with photos is becoming too cumbersome and inefficient.

You may have noticed more and more people are now ‘sharing’ their photos through an online service such as Picasa Web Albums or Kodak EasyShare. These services make things easier. For one, it’s easier for the recipients to view photos and share their photos with you. Also, having the photos online is like having another backup. The best part is that it’s much more social – people you invite to view photos can discuss and contribute to the gallery with each other.

Here’s how to share photos online using my photo manager of choice, Picasa:

Make sure you’ve got Picasa 3.5 at least, and a Picasa Web Galleries account.

If you’re not signed in to your account, click “Sign In”

When you’re signed in, your username will show up.

If you only want to share some photos from a folder, and not all, follow these steps:

Select the photos you want to share by holding CTRL key (bottom-left) and clicking on each of the individual photos or by “pinning them” to the tray.

Once you’ve selected the files you want to share (they should be in the tray, near the bottom-left of the window) click the album button to the right of the tray and then “New album”

Notice how the selected photos show up in the tray.

Enter a name for the new album and click “Ok”. You might want to give it an obvious name.

Simply find the new album in the album list and click on it. Now we can continue!

Find the folder or album you want to share, and click “Share” above the album, like so:

Enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite to view the photos:

Decide on whether you want your album to be listed publicly, not listed publicly but available to the invitees (unlisted), or only available to Picasa Web Gallery members (sign-in-required).

Click “Send” to start uploading. Obviously, the more photos you share, the longer the upload will take.

How to Burn Photos to CD or DVD to Print at the Store (Using Picasa3)

Tim Cinel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:34:13 +0000

While I love hoarding my massive cache of photos on my computer and viewing them on screen – it sure is a treat to hold photos in your hands, just like in the old days, and share them with friend, family and sometimes strangers. Here’s how to burn photos from Picasa 3 so you can get them printed at a photo kiosk or photo shop.

Open Picasa 3 and click “Tools > Back Up Pictures”

In Picasa, browse through the folder list on the left, and ‘tick’ or ‘check’ the checkboxes next to the folders you would like to burn to the CD or DVD to get printed.

Near the bottom of the screen, Picasa will give you a summary of how many CDs or DVDs will be burned.

Click “Burn” to start the burning process!

If you haven’t got a blank CD or DVD in the drive, you will be asked to insert one.

Now take your CD or DVD to the shop and get printing.

How To Save Photos from Emails to Your Computer

Tim Cinel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:12:55 +0000

Those of us with snapshot-happy friends and relatives receive a lot of photos via email. Whilst they’re easy to view when you receive them, keeping them in an email is not the most logical way to organise them. Here’s how you can save them to your computer so you can manage them in software like Picasa.

Outlook Express

If you want to put the photos into a new folder of their own – read and perform “New Folder” first.

Open the email with one or more photos attached.

Right-click one of the attachments and click “Save All”

Click the “Browse” button

Go to the top of the list, find “My Documents” expand it by clicking the plus next to it.

Then find “My Pictures” and also expand it.

Choose a folder within “My Pictures” that you’d like to save the folders by clicking on it, then clicking “Ok”

If you want to create a new folder, see below. Afterwards, restart the entire process.

That’s it! Your photos are saved on the computer now.

New Folder

If you want to save them to a new folder, click “Start > My Documents” or find another way to get to My Documents. Then open “My Pictures”

Click “File > New > Folder” and enter the name of the new folder.

Restart the tutorial from the beginning.

Using Your iPod – Syncing, Adding Music, Removing Music, Adding Photos

Tim Cinel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:21:03 +0000

Even though iTunes has a very easy-to-use interface, there’s still a learning curve. In this tutorial, we’ll cover:

Syncing (Adding music from your computer to your iPod)
Adding New Music (For adding songs that after Syncing)
Removing Music
Creating Playlists
Adding Photos

Syncing

Syncing (or sychronising) is when iTunes makes sure that all of the music, photos, contacts, etc. that you want on the iPod, are on the iPod – and also removes the things that you don’t want.

Sync by opening iTunes, connecting the iPod and then clicking your iPod in the navigation pane.

Click Sync in the bottom right

Adding New Music / Updating Music

After downloading new music or ripping music from CDs using Windows Media Player, you may want to add the new music to your iPod.

If you downloaded the music, and it’s in your “Downloaded” folder:

Open iTunes
Open “Music” folder.
Drag the “Downloaded” folder from “Music” to the “Library” in iTunes.

If you ripped a new CD, instead of dragging the ‘Downloaded’ folder (in the last step), drag the Artist’s folder to iTunes. For example, if you ripped a Britney Spears CD, drag the “Britney Spears” folder from “Music” to the iTunes library.

Removing Music

To remove a song from iTunes, right-click it and click ‘Delete’

Here’s a tip, you can delete more than one song at once by selecting multiple songs – either hold down CTRL and click each one, or click the top file, hold SHIFT and click the bottom file.

Creating Playlists

You can easily create iPod playlists from your MP3 CD playlists:

In iTunes, click File > New Playlist

Give the Playlist a name

Now, you need to drag the folder containing the songs into your iTunes window:

You can add as many folders as you want.

After you have all the music you want in your playlist, drag the playlist into your iPod.

Remember, doing this may be creating duplicates so don’t delete the playlist without first deleting the songs from the playlist. (See deleting music)

Adding Photos

Putting photos onto your iPod is a simple process.

Simply open iTunes, plug in your iPod. Click your iPod in the navigation pane:

Click the ‘Photos’ tab

If unticked, tick “Sync photos from: Pictures”.

If you want all of your photos on the iPod, tick “All Photos”

If you just want a selection of photos on your iPod, click “Selected folders” and tick the folders containing the photos you want.

Click “Apply” or “Sync”

And that’s all there is to offer in this tutorial. Want more? Leave a comment asking what you’d like in specific. Thanks for reading

Burning Photos to CD or DVD using Picasa

Tim Cinel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:46:08 +0000

Burning your photos to a CD or DVD can be useful for many things such as taking your photos to get printed, sharing them with friends, keeping them for backup purposes. Here’s how to do it if you use Picasa:

Open Picasa

On the left hand side, click one of the folders containing the photos you want to burn to CD

Near the top, click “Gift CD”

If you want to put photos from other folders on the disc too, click “Add More…”

Tick each of the other folders you’d like to include in the CD/DVD

Choose a name for the CD

Click “Burn Disc”

Wait a few minutes and Picasa will ask if you want to eject the CD or DVD.

That’s it, now you have a copy of those photos on a portable disc.