photo-management on S Anand

New features in Picasa Beta

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:00:00 +0000

New in Picasa’s beta:

geotagging (place photos on the map)
search by colour (find photos with red and yellow)
hide pictures: that’s useful, sometimes…
upload to Google video and to Picasa Web
FTP your photos

Comments

Anand 15 Jun 2006 11:39 am: I got an invitation from Google to try Picasa Web Albums. How does one selectively share some photos and not all in an album ? I do not want to mail these photos instead would like to make only some public. Could you highlight the major differences between this service and that from Flickr ?
S Anand 15 Jun 2006 8:51 pm: You can select photos from your Picasa album to upload – you don’t need to upload all of them. When compared with Flickr, PWA is more for sharing with friends and family than for photo discovery. So no tagging, no groups, no top-10 photos now browsing for other users.
Anand 16 Jun 2006 1:52 pm: I know I can selectively upload photos from Picasa to web albums. I may want to recover space on my PC by uploading all the photos from my hard disk to web albums. from that collection of photos online i may want to share only some publicly. I suppose then I have to create a pair of albums online for every album in Picasa so that one album online can have the private pictures and the other can have the public pictures
S Anand 17 Jun 2006 10:25 am: Yes - you can’t mark individual photos as private. Actually, PicasaWeb doesn’t have any such thing as private. Even if you mark an album as unlisted, if a person knows its URL, they can always access it.
Anand Srini 17 Jun 2006 4:33 pm: If a user has not chosent to make any album public then knowing the URL does not reveal those pictures. try it out. make all your albums unlisted and see for yourself what you can see using your URL.I have tested it. the only solution to my problem is to move private pictures from one album to another album and make it unlisted
S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:54 am: Oh, OK. But looks like privacy problems will continue to plague Picasa Web Albums for a while. Just do a google search for site:picasaweb.google.com

How to beat the free account limits in Flickr

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

How to beat the free account limits in Flickr.

Comments

Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:46 am: Read the article with great interest. This was an unfortunate title as it does not tell you anything about
Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:47 am: beating the limit, all it does it tell you how to maximize the number of photos you can upload. Pity… :(
S Anand 4 Apr 2005 11:35 am: Actually, using sets, you can upload as many photos as you want and view them. So that’s really beating the limit, in a way.
Dhar 5 Apr 2005 1:24 pm: Ahhh, will check the funda of sets when I get back to Mumbai after my trip to Jammu!

Picasa

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Picasa is good. I incorporated all my photos in it, and I can now search for photos of people by name. (I have catalogued my photos’ file names with peoples’ names.) Now, with Google taking over Picasa, we will soon be able to store/share photos on Google, and search across others’ shared photos, using Google’s image search!

Software to caption digital images

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Smart way of captioning digital pictures.