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Picasa Web Albums and software

Picasa is free software from Google that provides an easy way to organise and edit your photos, create movies, collages and slideshows, and upload the results to Picasa Web albums so they can be shared with friends, family, fellow bushwalkers and the world.

Whether you choose to organise your photos with Picasa or not, you should really take advantage of using it to edit and upload your images for sharing on the web. The editing software is superb, intuitive, easy to use, and non-destructive - it does not change the images on your computer - it only changes the images as they are uploaded to the web. It allows you to make all kinds of adjustments to your images on the fly - lighten, darken, add contrast, crop etc. It then automatically creates thumbnail images and resized larger images (a choice of three sizes) and optimises them for display on the web.

What would take a website designer a couple of hours to produce can be done by anybody using Picasa in just a few minutes!

In addition, Picasa Web Albums gives you 1GB of free webspace - roughly enough for up to 15,000 images!

First, download the Picasa software. Click here to go to the Picasa download site. The download is 9.6MB. Once the download is complete, install the software.

Second, create your Google account. Click here to go to the Picasa Web Albums site, then click on the "Create an Account" button.

Third, run Picasa. It will catalogue all the images on your computer, but it is also possible to point it at a limited number of specific folders if you wish. At this point you should edit your photos, delete any that you don't need, or choose to block images from uploading that you don't need to show online but don't want to delete either.

Fourth, when your photos are ready to upload, click on the "Sign into Web Albums" link, enter your Picasaweb sign-on details, select the photos you want to upload, click on the Upload (or Share) button, select the size you want them to be, and upload them.

Fifth, once the album is uploaded, you can edit your album online, rename it, delete photos, re-order the photos, add location maps, add captions, tags and comments, and share the album with friends. Have a play with it and see how easy the whole system is!

And finally, once you have created web albums of your bushwalks, please send their URL (web address) to the SBW webmaster so it can be added as a link to our site. The URL will look something like this :-
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/yourpicasapage/YourWalkPhotos

Examples of web albums can be reached via our Home page or All Images page ...