Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Uploading Pictures to Picasa with a Mobile Device.

If you have downloaded the Picasa app on your iphone, you will notice that there is no option to actually upload your photos. However, there is a way to upload your photos. I found this last night when I was trying to get all these pictures up for the most recent blog post. It is a little time consuming, but great if you want to get all those pictures from your separate apps which don't save in a folder correctly to be taken off with iPhoto (still not sure why this issue happens.

Instructions (found on Google's help section for Picasa mobile uploads)

First of all, this feature requires you to E-mail the pictures with a photo attachment app and picasa's e-mail upload capabilities.

Set it up as follows:
1. Sign in to your acount at http://picasaweb.google.com/.
2. Click the Settings link in the top-right corner.
3. On the General tab, in the 'Upload photos by email' section, check the box next to 'Allow me to upload photos by email.'
4. Enter a 'secret word,' 6-15 characters long. As you enter this word, an email address appears.
5. Click the Save changes button.
6. To email upload your photos, just attach them to an email message and send it to the newly-created address.
7. A new folder will be created in your Picasa web albums at this point called 'Drop Box'

This can be done with any mobile device that has e-mail, not just the iPhone.

Enjoy.

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