Info How To Purpose Picasa-Web-Albums Without Beingness Re-Directed - August 2016 Update

This article explains what has happened to Picasa-web-albums, why it is at nowadays re-directing to Google Album Archive, as well as what y'all tin practise close it.

Back inwards July 2013, I described how many people who started Picasa-web-albums were being immediately re-directed to Google+ photos and what they could to to render to using PWA in 1 lawsuit again without beingness re-directed.

Quite a few things convey changed since as well as thus   In particular, Google have:

• Changed their strategy some Google+
• Released Google Photos as well as retired Google+ Photos
• Changed the Picasa-web-albums re-direct to larn to Google Photos instead of Google+ Photos
• Stopped supporting Picasa (announcement)
• Stopped supporting Picasa-web-albums (announcement)
• Released a novel tool called Google Album Archive, which gives y'all access to photos, photo-albums as well as information close photos that y'all created inwards Blogger (and other Google tools) - which isn't available inwards Google Photos.
• Changed the re-direct on Picasa-web-albums, thus that it goes to Google Album Archive instead of to  Google Photos.

That is why y'all encounter this:

Instead of this:

when y'all larn to www.picasaweb.google.com.

How to destination Picasa-web-albums from re-directing to Google Album Archive

Bad news:    As Google's Album Archive production is turned on some the world, as well as specifically in 1 lawsuit it is turned on for your, in that place is no way to to purpose Picasa-web-albums, without beingness sent to Google Album Archive.

Your exclusively selection is to purpose to Google Photos directly, or to endure amongst pictures exclusively through Blogger's post-editor.

Is in that place a occupation amongst using Google Album Archive as well as Google Photos instead of Picasa-web-albums?

There are posts on help-forums etc from people who are unhappy close this change:   Picasa-web-albums as well as Picasa-desktop had a publish of features which Google convey but decided non to render inwards Google Photos.   These features include:

• Making slideshows as well as putting them into blog-posts or websites.
• Embedding Picasa Web albums as well as photos inwards blog-posts or websites.
• Linking to photos, albums, as well as Public Galleries which an URL that contains your usename 
• Photo tags, tagging people, likes, +1's, as well as Picasa Web comments. 
• Making slideshows.
• Following people based soley on their photograph collection
• Viewing world galleries.

People who used those features didn't desire to lose them, as well as they sure encounter a occupation amongst the changes.  Personally, I intend that things are a fiddling to a greater extent than nuanced.  There is a lot of special behind what y'all tin as well as cannot practise inwards Album Archive - as well as why sure actions are as well as aren't available.   This isn't e'er consistent amongst the documentation - eg the documentation says that nosotros tin delete photos inwards Album Archive, but I've got at to the lowest degree 1 album / photograph amongst no delete icon showing.   Other people convey reported that they had albums which aren't showing upwards inwards their Album Archive.     Some are unhappy because they cannot practise novel albums, exclusively endure amongst ones that they've already made.  

But for all that, I haven't notwithstanding constitute a full show-stopper final result that stops me from using the Google tools to endure amongst images for my blogs.    Have you?

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Info How To Rename Film Files Inwards Picasa-Desktop

This article is close re-naming files from within Picasa-desktop, to render SEO benefits for your blog.

Picasa's desktop software is a goodness tool for organizing too editing photos on your local computer.   And it is all the same available for y'all to role on your computer, fifty-fifty though Picasa-web-albums has been replaced past times Google Albums + Google Album Archive.

For pictures that are of import inwards your blog, I all the same recommend preparing them inwards a tool similar Picasa-desktop too and thence uploading the finished versions to Google Photos earlier putting them into a post, because:

• The desktop tool has ameliorate editing tools (cropping, zooming, automobile adjustment, adding watermarks) too Picasa-web-albums does.

• It lets y'all command the size of the uploaded file

• It's easier to ensure certain that y'all all the same guide keep full-size files on my local machine for printing etc, every bit good every bit smaller, to a greater extent than optimized, copies to role on web-pages.

Picasa-desktop folders guide keep a really prissy human relationship amongst files too directories amongst the Windows file system:

Each Picasa folder = ane directory on your computer
Each Picasa photograph = ane file on your computer.

And this way that y'all tin set diverse properties (eg file name) from either within Picasa or from Windows.

How to associate keywords amongst photos inwards Picasa-desktop

Picasa-desktop has 2 tools for adding keywords to photographs:

• You tin travel into a caption for each photo. This is basically some text, which is stored "inside" the photo, inwards a hidden-field that is alone visible when y'all are using a software tool that displays the captions. (In technical terms, the caption is stored within the  IPTC/XMP Description field within the JPEG etc file that y'all have.)

• You tin travel into ane or to a greater extent than tags for each photograph - again, text (individual words or phrases) that is stored inwards the  IPTC/XMP Keyword field.

Unfortunately captions too tags aren't shown when y'all lay a photograph inwards your blog.

This way that the captions too tags are maybe non used past times Google inwards understanding what the photograph is about: I've never heard whatever SEO experts recommending that the  IPTC/XMP fields should survive keyword optimized.   For some bloggers this won't survive an consequence - but it is if SEO is of import for y'all blog.

Another approach is to lay the keyword(s) into the file-name, because file-name is ane of the factors that Google looks at when it is indexing images.   And this has a prissy spin-off for y'all every bit good - it way that they keywords are available to whatever file-search tools that y'all role on your computer, non only to specialised ones that travel amongst images.

For a long time, I believed that to alter the advert of a file, I had to become out to my Windows files (using Windows Explorer or similar, too rename them there) - too and thence hold back for Picasa to grab upwards amongst the alter that I'd made inwards the file system.   But ane 24-hour interval I accidentally striking the F2 key, too constitute that it opens upwards a really useful dialog box indeed.

How to Change the advert of a file inwards Picasa desktop

Navigate to the motion-picture present that y'all desire to alter the file-name for, using the Picasa-desktop software.

Press the F2 key. This opens a Rename Files window.

Type in a novel advert for the file, for instance    concrete-pig-outside-butcher-shop-in-ireland

Click the option buttons if y'all desire to include today's appointment or the file-resolution inwards the advert  (I don't commonly create this, because I organise my photos into folders according to the appointment they were taken)

Click Rename to relieve the change


Job done!    The file has a novel advert inwards your computer's file system, too is all the same loaded inwards your Picasa database.

How to alter the advert of a file inwards Google Album Archive or Google Photos

Currently at that spot is no way to alter the advert of a file subsequently it is uploaded it to either Google Album Archive or Google Photos:  .

One choice is to download the photo, rename the file on your desktop, too re-upload it.   But if y'all alter the advert inwards this way, y'all also require to alter the link to the file inwards every house that it has already been used.   That said, if y'all alone role your photos inwards ane house each, too thence making a novel re-create amongst a unlike name, uploading it too changing all the existing links tin survive a goodness way to deal amongst copyright theives who guide keep hot-linked straight to your photos.

How to select "good" names for your motion-picture present files

Early SEO advice was to use:

• Lowercase letters alone (some computers don't similar uppercase)
• Only hyphens betwixt words (not spaces, underscores, etc)
• Regular characters alone (no á é etc)

Today, I'm non certain if it matters thence much. In most cases, it's in all likelihood to a greater extent than of import to role rich, descriptive cardinal words  that pull all the aspects of the photo, than to worry close how they're set out.   But I create tend to follow the advice anyway - only inwards case.

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