I originally wrote this commodity back in 2007, but I'g updating it for 2014 considering a lot has changed in vii years. Firstly, Picasa Web Albums no longer be. Since the release of Google+, all photo storage takes place in Google+ Photos. You can, nevertheless, nevertheless utilise Picasa on both a Mac and PC to upload your pictures to Google+ Photos.

I'm a huge fan of Picasa because of its ease of employ and the way it organizes all my pictures. The fact is that I can accept my pictures stored locally however I like, have them organized in Picasa differently using albums and and so upload them directly to Google+ Photos. I don't like Flickr because information technology's a pain to upload photos and they don't have a desktop plan to organize all my thousands of pictures. So if you lot're trying to make up one's mind on the best plan to manage your photos, I would get with Picasa!

Ok, so here's how you lot would go about setting up Google+ Photos with Picasa (and in turn setting up Picasa itself)…STEPWISE!

Pace ane) Download the Picasa program. Go to http://picasa.google.com/ and click the Download Picasa link. A dialog box should pop upwards asking to save the file or run it. You can but click Run, so that afterwards it downloads, it'll automatically start the installation. As mentioned before, it'due south bachelor for both Mac and Windows, which is actually overnice.

Footstep 2) Next, earlier yous get-go Picasa, y'all can move all your pictures to the My Pictures folder nether My Documents. That's where Picasa looks start for your pictures. Now if y'all take a ton of pictures and it'll accept too long to motion them or you just don't want to, so simply go ahead and open Picasa and you can tell it to expect in other folders for your pictures.

Step 3) Go ahead and launch Picasa. Once information technology loads, a dialog comes up asking to either browse your whole computer or just My Pictures, My Docs, and the desktop. I ordinarily choose the latter choice (My Pics, My Docs, Desktop) considering otherwise when the whole computer is scanned, it will pick upward a lot of junk images that you probably don't desire (Office icons, etc). And so fifty-fifty if your pics are not in those folders, just choose information technology anyhow and I'll testify you how to add the folders afterward.

Stride four) Requite it some time to detect all the pictures and you'll meet the folders load on the left-paw side.  When you click on one of the folders, all the pictures load upward on the right side as thumbnails. Past default, it's smart enough to sort out all the pictures by year, month and and so forth.

Quick Tip: If the appointment fix by Picasa is incorrect, just correct-click on a folder and choose Edit Description. Here you tin can alter the date and also add together a location if you lot like.

Step v) Once everything is loaded, you can click on whatsoever of the folders in the left pane and it'll highlight that folder and bring upward the pictures for that binder. So only right click on the folder and there is an option chosen Upload to Google+ Photos. When you lot click that, it'll ask you for your login information, so y'all need to create a Google business relationship if you don't already have one. At that place is an pick to sign upwards, then click that if you don't have a Google account.

Step 6) One time you do that, it'll bring up some other dialog box request for the Title of the album and some other data. Most of it is self-explantory, but leave the setting for Upload Setting to the default of All-time for Sharing. You can cull Original if you want to create a backup of all your pictures at the highest resolution.

Now that Google+ Photos is the new Picasa Spider web Albums, you lot have the choice to share with your Google+ circles. If you lot don't add together anyone, it volition exist a individual anthology. Now click Upload and y'all've successfully uploaded your first anthology to Google+ Photos from Picasa.

Step seven) To view your photos on Google+, get the following link: https://plus.google.com/photos.

Equally of 2014, the storage plans take inverse. Now you get 15GB of gratuitous storage for Google Bulldoze, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Google+ Photos besides has an crawly characteristic whereby yous don't get charged for storage if the pictures yous upload are less than 2048×2048 in resolution. So if you choose the Best for Sharing option, y'all could theoretically upload unlimited photos for costless.

Y'all tin buy extra storage that is shared across Bulldoze, Gmail and Photos starting at $2 a month for 100GB, $10 a month for i TB, and then on. Here is a link on the new Google storage plans:

https://support.google.com/drive/reply/2375123?hl=en

For this article, I merely focused on using Picasa to become your photos organized and uploaded to Google+ Photos without even mentioning all the other cool features of the programme and of Google+ Photos. I'll save that for another postal service, just Picasa is a smashing photo editing tool if you lot like to edit your photos before uploading.

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Overall, it's an impressive piece of software and is the best option for anyone who already has a Google account and isn't heavily invested in another service like Flickr. If you accept any questions, feel free to postal service them in the comments. Relish!