Saltburn Digital Village

Since you have set up Picasa and learned to use it you may wish to set up a Picasa web account to display your images or share them privately with friends and family. It’s very easy to synchronise your offline images with your web gallery. Just go to www.picasaweb.google.com/ sign up for an account and follow the prompts.

Another web gallery (and perhaps the best known) is Flickr. This is very easy too. All you do is got to www.flickr.com and sign up then follow the online instructions. You can share your images or keep them private as well as arrange into albums. You can joing Photography groups such as the Peoples Republic of Teesside ( www.flickr.com/groups/teessidephotographers ) You can get help and tips and even arrange to go on photography outings!

Both Picasa Web Albums and Flickr have a large community of users and you may wish to try both to see which suits you. You can post comments on other peoples pictures and people may post comments on yours or you can simply browse through everyones pictures. There are some stunning pictures to see.

You may wish to import pictures into your computer in whatever way your normally do. Picasa should be able to detect these newly added pictures. (particular if you put these pictures into “My Pictures”. Here#s what to do if your pictures don’t show up.

Click on the >>> File Menu >>> “Add Folder To Picassa”.  You should see the screen below.

You can see all the folders that have the “eye” icon next to them and that on the right that the icon means that these folders are always scanned for new pictures when Picasa opens. Any new pictures you have added to those folders will be read into the Picasa library. If you have created a new folder you should select it and then click in the “Scan Always” or “Scan Once” box to have it added to picassa.

If you have added and image(s) to a folder that Picasa is not scanning you can still add the picture to the Picasa library. Click on the >>> File Menu >>> “Add File To Picassa”, browse for the file and click on it.