Thursday, June 10, 2010

Picasa: Online photo's done right

Well, I know there hasn't been a post for quite some time, but I had something that I wanted to share:  the awe and beauty of Picasa, Google's online photo service.

I am home sick (really just riding out the 24 hr. after a fever, I'm better now) and my wife wanted me to put photos up on Picasa.  Since we both have Google accounts, Picasa is our online photo storage place of choice.  One big thing that needed to be done was to size all of the photos down so that we didn't fill up Picasa too fast (they provide 1 GB of storage).  I had downloaded Picasa 3 which is the PC software that allows you to organize photos on your computer.  I knew that there was some integration with Picasa 3 and the online storage, but I hadn't played with it much.

Well, long story short (too late) I am in the process of uploading the photos and it works like a dream.  It lets me upload them to the online storage and resize them on the fly as they are being uploaded.  SWEET!!!!

If you have a Google account, I would highly recommend using Picasa.