Thread: Upload images to Picasa

You can use F-Spot to upload images to Picasa. Select the photos you want to export, go to Photo> Export to > PicasaWeb. In the gallery field, click Add. This is the username. Enter your username and password at this point.

Next. select an album from the list. If you want to add a new album. click on Add, and enter the album name and a description. Also check whether or not you want the album to be public. Then click on Export, and the images will be uploaded to the album.

If you do not want to use F-Spot, and are more comfortable with Picas a itself, you can install it on your distribution. Usually, Picas a is available in the repositories of your distro, and the apt-get or wget commands should work with Picasa. Optionally. you can also use the package manager or the add/remove software interface to install it.linux to get the latest version of Picas a for your distro (Picasa 3 beta). Use this method if you are using an old distro with an outdated repository.



Note that this version of Picas a for Linux is bundled with Wine and the Gecko engine. This will work the same with Picasa run through Wine. When you run Picas a for the first time, it asks you if you want it to make your default photo manager. This means that Picasa will detect and handle photos from a camera whenever it is con¬nected instead of F-Spot. This choice depends totally on which software you are more comfortable using. Since Picasa on Linux works through Wine, some of the interface will look like the Windows interface. As soon as it starts for the first time, Picas a will automatically add all the images on your computer to its internal reference.

Once all the photos are indexed, right-elick on a selection or a folder, and select upload to Web Albums. You will be asked to sign in, enter your Google/Picasa username and password here: Select the details and click on Upload. Using Picasa is a lot slower than F-Stop for uploading to the web, but F-Stop has no way ofresizing the pictures before they are uploaded. So if you want to conserve space on your Picasa account, it is best to use Picas a for uploading the photographs.