I spent the day today embedding Picasa Web Albums into a clients website. It was my first experience with Picasa. Like many other Google Apps, I was sold from the start. Not only could I categorize, label, tag, link, RSS, and "what not" (a favorite phrase of my brother, Joe), but Google also provides ample disk space (1GB free) and nifty editing software to boot (pun intended). The image editor is an executable program that installed onto my Windows machine (but also available for Mac, I think). After 5 minutes of hijacking my image archives, even to the point of isolating individual faces on each image for future name tagging, I fell in love with its fast and easy management of my files and folders. It also includes some interested and FAST editing tools. I'm still wed to Photoshop, and a zillion other high dollar editors, but for quick red-eye fixes or outer blurs, "no bad" (said with a Scottish accent). I put together this collage in about 10 seconds, literally! Just select a group of images, select the “collage” button, tweak it with tools on the images, and presto! A beautiful collage!As if that wasn’t enough, this very blog post was generated from the Picasa image software. The editor is more awkward than Blogspot, but the image upload and text were automatic. I selected the collage, clicked “Send to Blog,” typed this message, and watched it make its way to my blog. Nifty, eh?
Ultimately, I managed to embed my clients Picasa galleries into their website. I'll post a link when it goes live.
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