Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Help Posting Photos with Picasa

A while back, I gave up on PhotoBucket to hold the photos I post on Pond Boss. My main problem was that the various firewalls, virus protection, and other security settings, both at home and at work, made PhotoBucket difficult-to-impossible to use.

Instead, for several months I've been using Picasa from Google. It is available as a free download from here:

Google Pack

It is a very powerful photo organizer. It allows you to do basic editing and you can easily mark photos for upload to the Picasa website. It will automatically resize them, if you so desire. This makes uploading pretty fast. Your web albums and your computer albums work almost the same, which in convenient.

I'm posting this because I got PMs from a couple of people who asked me how I was doing it. So . . .

Once you launch Picasa, you should see a screen similar to this:


If you click on a photo, you can select and hold it with the Push Pin. It will put a thumbnail of it in the small window on the lower left of the screen. You can select multiple photos.



You can then click on UPLOAD, and it will ask you what album you want to put them into on the Picasa site. It will also ask you what size you would like to store them at on the website.



Click UPLOAD on this screen, and off they go.

Once they get there, open your web album and click on the photo you want to use. On the right side of the screen you will see this window:



Click LINK TO THIS PHOTO. Then CHECK the IMAGE ONLY (NO LINK) check box. In the pull-down menu above that, choose the size you want. 800 pixels, or smaller, is good for most things on the forum.

Place your cursor in the EMBED IMAGE display area. This will select the photo information you need to copy. You can either use the EDIT/COPY command, or press the CTRL key and the "C" key to copy the info.

When you get back to the forum window, click on the ENTER AN IMAGE icon:




Paste the photo info into the window that opens, using the EDIT/PASTE command, or press the CTRL key and the "V" key at the same time.

It should look something like this:



And, then you should see something like this in the forum posting window:



That's it. That's all there is to it.

Good luck -- and post lots of photos.
Ken

Theo - Transfer Ken's upload idea to the Archives!

Thanks Ken, I'll have to give it a try...

think I got this bad boy under control

Picasa is Sucasa.