How To Upload Picasa Albums To Google Photos

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com

This is what I exercise now: All my photos collect in the cloud with Google Photos, I make albums of my best photos there, then I download those albums to my computer and then I have them in Picasa for safekeeping, collages, text on photos etc. Picasa tin Upload to Google Photos, creating an album of photos online. Picasa tin also download Albums from Google photos online, creating folders of pictures on your reckoner that can even synchronize with the cloud.

To upload from Picasa on your computer to Google Photos

Select the photos you want to upload. You'll see them in the selection tray in the lower left.
Click the Dark-green "Upload to Google Photos" push, log in to your Google business relationship if necessary
Select an existing Album, or click the New push and enter a new album proper noun
Choose a size: Original or Best for Sharing
We recommend Original – this will count against your storage resource allotment, but you tin can recover that infinite later. Selecting Best for Sharing volition reduce the resolution of your photos to 2048 px.
Click Upload

To Download from Google Photos to your Computer and Picasa

Click the File bill of fare and Import from Google Photos
Selecting "Import All Albums" will exercise just that, or clicking on "Import Selected Albums" allows yous to specify
These downloaded albums will create folders on your difficult drive under the Pictures folder. They will testify up in Picasa in the "Web Albums" collection below Folders
In addition to downloading your photos to a folder, y'all tin can click the "Sync to Spider web" button and so that any new photos added to the album will be added to the computer. So, you can make a collage using Picasa, then add that collage to the Synced folder and it will be uploaded to

A major advantage to this method of downloading is that captions are preserved! If you lot added descriptions using Google Photos – those descriptions bear witness up as captions in Picasa. This is non true when you utilize Google Photos download command. There is besides one drawback to this method – Picasa will merely download pictures that are not already on your computer. So, if some of these pictures in the Google Photos anthology started out on your computer, then the album download will create a folder that is missing those pictures. You tin can avoid this either by always uploading to the cloud first, and only downloading albums. Or, by using folder director to limit what Picasa is seeing from your computer – fooling it, if y'all will, into not knowing that those photos already exist.

I utilise this method all the time to incorporate Picasa into my photograph workflow. I gather all my pictures in the cloud with Google Photos – thousands of them – and then I download merely the all-time, the ones in albums.