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Google Intros Web Album to Picasa
Techtree News Staff, Jun 15, 2006 1450 hrs ISTGoogle has introduced a new online photo-sharing feature called "Web Album" to the Picasa software that allows users to find and edit photos on PCs.
Google has introduced a new online photo-sharing feature called "Web Album" to the Picasa software that is an open-source software, allowing users to find and edit photos on PCs.
The resulting "Picasa Web Album" is designed to enable people easily upload and store their photos on the Web. The new feature has the capability to post pictures directly from the Picasa application, to a Google-hosted Web album.
With the new feature, users can first create an album by selecting photos from their Picasa library, and then click on the "Web Album" button in Picasa to upload and store this album onto the Web. Users can also download images from the Web onto their Picasa libraries.
The Picasa Web Album offers a user-friendly "share" button that enables users to share photos, albums, or galleries with friends, through e-mail links. However, the photo-sharing feature is available to users on an invitation-only basis or it is available to Gmail account holders.
But Google says that viewers do not need to sign-in or have a Gmail account to view the photos. The "recent activity" section shows recent photos uploaded by friends and users can post comments on each of these photos.
Adrian Graham, product manager, Picasa, said that photos can be automatically re-sized to fit-the-screen, and that they carry no advertisements next to them. Images are pre-loaded for fast viewing; users can download entire albums at 1,600-pixels resolution that is large enough to make 4 x 6 inch prints.
Graham said that initially, the Web Album will be available only to a limited number of Gmail users at http://picasaweb.google.com.
However, no sooner has the new feature been announced, there are reports saying it is flawed. Apparently, photos once uploaded from Picasa to Web Albums have no link to show-for between them.
The resulting "Picasa Web Album" is designed to enable people easily upload and store their photos on the Web. The new feature has the capability to post pictures directly from the Picasa application, to a Google-hosted Web album.
With the new feature, users can first create an album by selecting photos from their Picasa library, and then click on the "Web Album" button in Picasa to upload and store this album onto the Web. Users can also download images from the Web onto their Picasa libraries.
The Picasa Web Album offers a user-friendly "share" button that enables users to share photos, albums, or galleries with friends, through e-mail links. However, the photo-sharing feature is available to users on an invitation-only basis or it is available to Gmail account holders.
But Google says that viewers do not need to sign-in or have a Gmail account to view the photos. The "recent activity" section shows recent photos uploaded by friends and users can post comments on each of these photos.
Adrian Graham, product manager, Picasa, said that photos can be automatically re-sized to fit-the-screen, and that they carry no advertisements next to them. Images are pre-loaded for fast viewing; users can download entire albums at 1,600-pixels resolution that is large enough to make 4 x 6 inch prints.
Graham said that initially, the Web Album will be available only to a limited number of Gmail users at http://picasaweb.google.com.
However, no sooner has the new feature been announced, there are reports saying it is flawed. Apparently, photos once uploaded from Picasa to Web Albums have no link to show-for between them.
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