Making Picasa and Flickr Play Nice Together – [How To]

picasa-logo Picasa is a great free Windows Photo Organizer and Flickr is a great online media hosting and social web site. Maybe since Picasa is a Google product and Flickr is a Yahoo! product, it’s not always intuitive as to how to make them work together.

Ideally you would store all you digital pictures on your Windows computer in Picasa and then be able to automatically upload them to your Flickr account. Out of the box this process takes several steps.

If you’d like to make this workflow painless you need to do about five minutes of installing and configuring and then your uploading will be a breeze.

We’ll assume you’ve already downloaded Picasa, if not, get the version 3 beta, it’s great. Got an account on Flickr? No, go to Flickr.com and sign up with your Yahoo! username and password.

Next download and install FlickrUploadr. This is an official Flickr application that let’s you upload and configure bulk digital images from your PC. Get it here.

Okay, now the last step. Download a little piece of “glue” called “picasa2flickr”, sounds right, doesn’t it? Download and click on this magic piece of glue will install a new button in the control panel at the bottom of your Picasa screen called “send to Flickr”.

sendtoflickrbutton So this is the way the magic will happen, you will choose the picture/s in Picasa that you want to upload to Flickr by selecting the picture/s, then press “Send to Flickr” which activates FlickrUploadr which will give you the opportunity to add titles, descriptions and keywords to you picture. You’ll press “Upload Pictures” and when the pictures have been uploaded to Flickr, you’ll be given one more chance to see and manipulate them online before they appear in your Flickr account.