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

November 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
picasa-logoPicasa 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. flickr-logo 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”. sendtoflickrbuttonSo 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. See the entire sequence after the jump [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="In Picasa on the PC"]picasa-screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="71" caption="Press Send to Flickr Button"]sendtoflickrbutton[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Flickr Uploadr Screen"]flickruploadr_screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="Your Pictures are on Flickr"]upload_complete[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="417" caption="This screen is optional, only if you want to further manipulate titles"]on flickr[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="311" caption="On Flickr - Total time 24 secs"]flickr-final[/caption]
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Get an Amazingly Fast Windows Image Viewer

November 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
faststone_logo Working forever, as it seems, in tech marketing, I feel like I've spent my career (an exaggeration) looking at image files like jpegs, sorting them, looking at them again -- just trying to find the right image for the story I was trying to tell. I've used tons (an exaggeration) of Windows image viewers. I'm always on the lookout for new viewers, here's one and I like very much.  FastStone MaxView really is one of the fastest Windows Image Viewers I've ever used and fast is important when you're flipping through large clip art collections or all of your digital pictures. MaxViewer is free for non-commercial use -- $19.95 for commercial use. MaxViewer has more to recommend it besides just fast viewing.  Here's a partial Feature List from the FastStone site:
  • Full screen viewer with Select - Zoom support
  • Clear and customizable magnifier
  • View detailed image information including EXIF metadata
  • Slideshow with 150+ transitional effects and MP3/WAV/MIDI/WMA background music support
  • Lossless JPEG rotation and crop
  • Internal editor that adds texts, arrowed-lines, highlights to images
  • Undo, Redo and Mouse Wheel support
  • Common image formats support, including loading of JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA and saving to JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA
  • Digital camera RAW formats support, including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG
Download FastStone MaxView [via lifehacker] maxview-screen
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Need to Download and Backup Sets From Flickr?

October 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
flickrdown_logoThere are certain kinds of computer utilities you don’t need every day, but they’re awfully nice to know about when you do need them. FlickrDown falls clearly in that category.  It’s a free Windows utility that allows you to download complete Flickr photostreams, sets or groups.  It’s a great way to backup your own Flickr account or to grab other public sets or groups that you really enjoy.  If you want to download private pictures you’ll have to authorize their download through Flickr (you’ll be prompted). The program allows you to search Flickr by username, e-mail address, tags, or groups. The program needs Microsoft .NET 2.0 to operate.  If you haven’t installed that, there is a link to the download from the FlickrDown webpage. Download FlickrDown [via LifeRocks2.0] flickrdown-screen
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PixnPals — A Digital Picture Service for Your Events

October 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
pixnpals-logo If you want to put your digital pictures on the Internet and share them, they are plenty of ways – Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums. Here’s a different service with a twist.  PixnPals let’s you organize and share your pictures around events. I can imagine this as a potentially great idea and lots of fun.  Remember the last wedding or picnic that you went to when everyone was snapping digital cameras?  Why not put your pictures on PixnPals and invite other people to the same event to upload their pictures.  The results would be fun to look at the event from many different perspectives. While I’m not sure I’d use it as a replacement for Flickr or Picasa Web Albums, both of which I really like, the site is free and very easy to use and can be a great place to collaborate on sharing memories. The name PixnPals might be a little hokey, but everyone can’t have something really clever like Enquiring Mimes. Give PixnPals a try [via mashable] pixnpals-screen
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New Picasa beta now available for Linux [Update]

October 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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We probably don’t provide enough help for those brave souls that have decided to use Linux as their desktop – these pioneers don’t use the Mac and certainly not Windows.

Unfortunately for these trend setters they’re also often forgotten by publishers of consumer-oriented software.  Today we’re glad to report that the Google team has made the new Picasa 3 available to Linux users. 

Our previous story on Picasa 3 beta.

The update provides much of what is available to the Windows crowd but does not include the rather cool slideshow movie format. 

Limitations in the Linux version come mostly from the rather quirky Wine technology that Picasa used to port Picasa to Linux.

Download Picasa for Linux [via webmonkey]

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