![]() I'm also surprised that Google is being so stingy with online storage space for photos: Free accounts are limited to 250 megabytes. I'm disappointed that Google did not more tightly integrate their Picasa software and Web service. I think synchronization is the only way to go if you're going to have the same images online and on your PC. I'm spoiled by the technology of Sharpcast and Phanfare, both of which feature live synchronization between media files on your PCs and your online albums. If you write a caption or delete a photo on your PC, nothing changes on your online album (or vice versa). Once you upload photos from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums, there's no link between them. There's a bigger issue I have with this service: It's one-way. And although Web Albums will display slideshows, captions that you attach to photos don't show up in them. And the Web pages that Picasa Web Albums creates are very clean and easy to navigate.īut there are small snags: While albums on Picasa Web Albums can be made either public or unlisted, there's no way that I saw to password-protect them. ![]() Other Picasa users can download images (if you allow it) into their own Picasa libraries. The albums get nice human-readable URLs and sharing them is a snap. Album titles and descriptions transfer over automatically, but you can easily change them if you want. You create an album by first selecting photos from your Picasa library and then pressing the "Web Album" button in Picasa. So I was looking forward to Picasa Web Albums, and gave it a try as soon as I got access.Īt first blush, integration appears quite good. Picasa has become the PC-based photo manager for many people, and many of them have become frustrated that you need a separate non-Google service to post photos online. Its biggest new feature is the capability to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album. Uploading non-JPEG photos: You can now upload bmp, gif, jpeg, and png photos via the API.Ĭan anyone tell me if there are still some people who users Picasa Web Albums to store their personal photos? I had this impression that Flickr and Zooomr are the most used and visited online public albums right now.Google launched a new beta of Picasa on Tuesday.Example: userID?kind=photo&tag=dog will find all photos owned by the user userID which are tagged with ‘dog’. Filtering by tag: You can filter photos in the album feed or user feed based upon tags using the new tag query parameter.Will find all photos owned by user userID which contain the word ‘penguin’ in the title, caption or tag. Searching a user’s photos: You can search through all the photos belonging to a single user using the q query parameter. ![]() Example: userID? kind=comment&max-results=25 will retrieve the 25 comments most recently added to photos owned by userID. ![]()
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