Friday, April 22, 2011

Google Photos (Picasa)

Google's photo hosting service is called Picasa. They offer 1GB of free space and make it easy to share and embed photos on your blog.

To get started, go to your gmail and click 'photos' or go directly to:  https://picasaweb.google.com/



To upload photos to your web albums, click 'upload'.
You DON'T need to click 'Launch Picasa'.  



The first time you access Picasa, you might be asked ot create a Google Profile.  If so, click 'Yes, Create my Google Profile'


To upload photos, click 'Choose photos to upload'.

Enter a name for the album where it says 'Title'.
Select 'Public on the web' and click continue.

Locate and hightlight all of the photos you want ot upload. Then click 'OK'.

Once the photos are uploaded, you can make changes by clicking 'Orgazne & Reorder'

To embed the slideshow of photos on a blog, click 'embed slideshow'

Select the slideshow size, copy the code and paste it into yoru blog post
*remeber to select 'edit html', not compose

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