Major Update for Picasa Web Albums

Today Picasa Web Albums has the most important update since it was launched. Basically, it adds the most requested features and even some obscure features that will make you very happy.

First, the free version of Picasa Web gets 1 GB of storage (up from 250 MB), enough to host 4000 high-quality photos.

Like in Flickr, you can also search the public photos posted by other people. Until today, you could search only your photos and the public photos uploaded by your contacts. There's an option enabled by default that lets you exclude your albums from the community search. This feature doesn't seem to be live yet.

I told you last year that the new Blogger uses Picasa Web Albums to store photos. Now you automatically get new albums that store all the photos uploaded to each Blogger blog. So this is a nice way to view and search all the photos uploaded to your blogs. For more context about a photo, click on the link to the post that includes it.



It's also easier to link to a photo and you have more options when you embed a photo into your site. If you want even more options regarding the size of the embedded photo, check this post that lists all the available photo sizes.

{ Thank you, C. I. R. E. }

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