{"id":210,"date":"2006-08-14T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwco.com\/~wls\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/review-picasa-web-albums\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T15:38:54","slug":"review-picasa-web-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/review-picasa-web-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Picasa Web Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a quick gander at my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/walt.stoneburner\">web gallery<\/A>.  To be honest, I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ll find up there at any given moment.  The reason?  I&#8217;m having too much fun playing with it!<\/p>\n<p>The album is hosted by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/web\/help.html\">Picasa Web Albums<\/A>, and I already know what you&#8217;re thinking:  you use <a href=\"http:\/\/flicker.com\/\">Flicker<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\/\">PhotoBucket<\/a>.  Well this is different.<\/p>\n<p>Much different.<\/p>\n<p>Goggle&#8217;s free <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\">Picasa<\/a>, software will scan your system for photos.    You can browse them super fast, present slide shows, crop, strighten, fix red eye, correct color, correct contrast, correct brightness, and apply a ton of effects.  You can email, print, order prints, make collages, export, and blog.  But you can now automatically upload as a Picasa Web Album.  And it&#8217;s fast.<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\nHint: make sure you go to Tools \/ Options.., select File Types, and turn on <EM>all<\/EM> the file types, like GIF and PNG, in order to get everything on your system.<br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nOS X users aren&#8217;t left out at all, given that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/iphoto\/\">Apple&#8217;s iPhoto<\/a>, does the above as well, Google gives you a plug-in that makes iPhoto export to a web album.  They also give you an uploader, in the event you just have a folder with pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The web album does all the rest, however &#8212; thumbnail browsing, photo selections, order organizing, downloading, publishing, printing, and notifications.  Yes, you even get RSS feeds, so people subscribing to your photo album will know when you&#8217;ve updated without you having to send an email.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interactive.  It&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great tool for any digital photographer who wants to go from camera shoot to web pages in a <EM>very<\/EM> short period of time.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Walt gives Google Picasa Web Albums a thumbs up!<\/STRONG><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a digital photographer, then you know the hardest part of the workflow is getting your images to a webpage because of all the work that has to go on dealing with adjusting, labeling, resizing, and moving the images.  Google&#8217;s Picasa Web Albums comes to the rescue, and it can handle a lot of photos well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,85,88,92,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-photos","category-review","category-software","category-web-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}