July 22/29 at 10:00AM - Sharing Photos by Using a Picasa Web Account

Instructor: Jim Evans

The Course Outline:

We will have two sessions, one on July 22 and the second on July 29.  

We will set up their Picasa web accounts after the first session and then show them how to use the account during the second session.  so Here is how I plan to organize the sessions. 

First Session: July 22nd.

        Downloading the Picasa program (if you don’t already have it)

        Setting up a Picasa web account
        
        Organizing photos for sharing
        
        Editing the photos

Second Session: July 29th.

        Uploading the photos to your Picasa web site

        

        Organizing the photos on the web page

        

        Labeling the photos

        

        Sharing the photos by emailing a link to your group of recipients

Using Picasa to Send a Large Group of Photos to Friends or Family

Picasa has a feature that allows you to send out a large group of photos via e-mail. 

It does this by having you upload your photos to an album that is created in the Picasa Web Albums online site.

The Picasa Web Albums site is part of the larger Google website that also 

contains G-mail – it is one of the options available to people who have a 

G-mail account.  

To do this you need first to have a G-mail account.  If you 

don’t already have one, you need to follow the instructions in the Senior Center 

“E-Mail” Training Manual  to get one.  It is free.

After you upload a group of photos to the your Picasa Web Albums site, you 

can then share them via e-mail to any e-mail user, and that user can view the 

photo as a slideshow and can view and/or download the photos individually. 

It is important to understand that when you upload selected photos to your 

Picasa Web Albums site, the photos will then reside on both your own 

computer and your Picasa Web Albums site. 

When you share to photos via e-mail, the photos are not actually attached to

the e-mail, but rather you are sending the e-mail recipient a web link to you 

Picasa Web Albums site that allows the recipient to view the photos on that site.

Share.

Instructions for Uploading, using the Picasa Program on Your Computer

1.   Open the Picasa program on your computer.
2.   Find the folder that contains the photos you wish to upload.
3.   Select the photos you'd like to upload by holding down the “Control” 

      button on you keyboard and left-clicking on each photo you wish 
      to upload.
4.   Once you've selected all of your photos, click the Upload button in the 

      Tool Bar at the bottom of the page.

5.   A panel will come up that gives you option for naming the album on the 

      website (default is the title of the folder where the photos currently 
      reside).  

      If you’re OK with that title, leave it alone, if not change it to whatever 
      you like.  

     Then left-click on the “Upload” button on the bottom of the panel.

6.   Another panel will come up which shows the progress of the upload. 
      It will take a while, particularly if there are lots of photos being uploaded.  
      After it says “Finished”, click on the “View Online” button at the top right 
      side of the panel.

7.   Your Picasa Web Albums online site will come up and display the 
      album of photos you just uploaded.

8.   You can share this album with anyone you have an e-mail address for 

      by clicking on the “Share” button on the right side of the page.  After 
      you do this a new page will come up that allows you to enter e-mail 
      addresses.  

      You can type these in just like you type in addresses when you send 
      e-mails in your G-mail account. 

9.   You should also type in a message to send with this e-mail that 
      explains what the photos mean and why you’re sending out the 
      photos.

10. You complete this by clicking on the “Share via Email” button at the 
      bottom of the page.

11. You may wish to put captions on your photos before you share them.  
      To do so you will need to do the following before you click on the 
       “Share” button (Step 7):Right above the photos there is a tool bar 
       that has the following headings: Slideshow, Share, Add Photos, 
       Prints, Actions; Organize.  Click on “Actions” and select “Captions”.  

       Then add appropriate captions for each picture, as you wish.  Click 
       on “Done” and then proceed with sharing.

      Right above the photos there is a tool bar that has the following 

      headings:     Slideshow, Share, Add Photos, Prints, Actions; 
      Organize. Click on “Actions” and select “Captions”.  Then add 
      appropriate captions for each picture, as you wish.  Click on “Done” 
      and then proceed with sharing.

13. You may wish to share the photos only with yourself (enter only your 
      own e-mail address).  Then you can forward the resulting e-mail to 
      anyone you wish from your own e-mail account, including any 
      special message that you like.  This is particularly helpful if you use 
      a program other than G-mail for most of your e-mails.

     You may go to your Picasa Web Albums site at any time from your 

     G-mail   account site.  Your G-mail account page has a tool bar at 
     the top which contains “Photos”, among other things.  If you click on 
     “Photos”, your Picasa Web Albums site will come up.  It will display 
     all albums you have uploaded and give you the option to share any 
     of them and to manipulate them in many ways.  You can also upload 
     photos from any of the folders on your computer by clicking on the 
     “Upload” button at the top,  clicking on the “Select photos from your 
     computer” button, and then finding and selecting the photos you 
     wish to upload.