Backing up picture files from Picasa-web-albums

Google Takeout (called Takeaway in a little places) lets you backup your Picasa-web-albums, Gmail contacts, Circles, +1s and lots of other things, into single single zip funnel, which you can afterward stockpile in a safe, off-line place.

Picnik is ending on 19 April 2012

The chief roll of Google relevance retirements representing 2012 includs Picnik, a photo cutting tool to facilitate was clear via Picasa-web-albums (and perhaps from other sitting room too) - it was an in effect, though long-winded, way of tallying a watermark to pictures.

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Crop and re-size photos stored in PIcasa, without HTML

Some very attractive info from David of Blogger Xpertise almost scheming the show of photos from Picasa by manipulating the URL.  

Creative Kit photo editor works in Google+, if not in Picasa

This Quick-Tip is about using the Creative Kit, which has been giving me grief recently when I tried to use it from Picasa-web-albums.

For ages, I've occasionally used the photo-editor in Picasa-web-albums (the online version of Picasa) to edit photos so as to I've already uploaded, and care for to amend lacking changing the URL.   This editor was originally Picnik - until Google sold so as to upshot and replaced it with Creative Kit a while in the past.

What is Creative-Kit, and how to use it

This article describes Creative Kit, which is a photo-editing tool for enhancing pictures in your Picasa-web and Google+ albums.

A little history: Picasa, Picnik and Creative Kit

In 2002, a company called Lifescape created a program called Picasa, which people could use to manage photos on their PC.

How to use Picasa-web-albums, without being re-directed to Google+ Photos

This article is about how to you can start Picasa-web-albums in way that stops you being immediately re-directed to Google+ Photos.

What happens when you start Picasa-web-albums?

If you have a Google+ account, either because you only signed up for Google recently, or you had a Blogger account first and then linked your blog to Google+, then you will know that if you go to Picasa-web-albums), you are immediately re-directed to Google+ photos.

How to show pictures from Google Plus Photos in any website

This article shows how you can get a slideshow of all the photos from an album in your own Google Photos, which can be placed into a website or blog.

Sharing a photo album from Google+ Photos

Google's help-pages note that you can share a Google Photos album using a link - and is a good option for showing your photos to people who are outside of Google+.