Comments on: Photo album software recommendations?

By: Lonnie

Lonnie — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:10:08 +0000

Seriously…I love Picasa but would like some much better templates for the “export as webpage” option…if anybody knows of any, please send me a link…

phschemguy@hotmail.com

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:36:54 +0000

The web templates of Picasa are quite… rubish! And 3rd
party ones like PiPiView (pipiview.companje.nl/) or
SimpleViewer (www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/) only work with Flash… I’m a fundamentalist, so no other
than W3C standard! I guess I’m going to make some template
look-a-like of the flikr (www.flickr.com) slideshow…
Or does anybody know of 3rd party HTML templates for Picasa?

Pete

By: Enda

Enda — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:36:04 +0000

Great explanation. Picasa does a marvellous job and your explanation makes it very simple.

By: J Long.

J Long. — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:00:11 +0000

Bob Dietz, you are a total treasure. Thank you for thinking about the complete non-technical first time Picasa user. That was an awesome explanation. Where else can I go online to find very simple step by step instructions on how to create a web-page from start to finish?
JLong.

By: Dwight Silverman

Dwight Silverman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

HP has a pretty nice Web service called HPPhoto.com. It’s free, and you don’t need to be using any HP imaging products to use it. There’s an HP Photo Manager program available for download from there. It does all the things you listed, including being able to invite people to look at your images.

Picasa 2.0 from Google also is pretty groovy, and it does work with photo hosting service, though I’ve never used that part of it. Picasa is extremely slick and easier to use than the HP Photo Manager software. But I really do like the HPPhoto.com Web service.

By: Dwight Silverman

Dwight Silverman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Oh, nevermind… Just saw he needs to host it on his own domain… Can’t do that with HPPhoto…

By: Omar Shahine

Omar Shahine — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

http://www.shahine.com/omar/UnlimitedPhotoBackupGallerySmugMug.aspx Love the service.

By: Sue Chastain

Sue Chastain — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hi Ed! Remember me? I miss you on About.com, but was glad to have found your blog. For your friend, I have listings and reviews of web gallery programs here.

Several of the free ones are very good. link

JAlbum is my favorite�lots of options�but not as easy to use as the web gallery creator in Photoshop Elements. I’m pretty sure JAlbum has built-in FTP capabilities. Unfortunately Elements doesn’t have built-in FTP, but once you configure an FTP client, it’s as easy as drag and drop. For myself, I use Photoshop Elements most of the time because that’s where I do all my photo organizing and editing. If he’s looking for a great organizer and editor in addition to doing the photo galleries, he really should look into Photoshop Elements 3. I’m working on a free class for it on About.com too.

Picasa is nice. Not my personal favorite, but its free, easy to use, and can do all that your friend wants. Pretty limited in Web gallery designs, though, if I recall correctly. Picasa also integrates with Blogger.com, so if he wanted to set up a blog on his domain, it makes a real easy way to put pictures online (after the initial setup).

Hope this is helpful! Have him visit my forum if he still needs help deciding.

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

He might consider PhotoThumb by Jarle Aasland. It has a lot of flexibility and creates some of the better looking and easy to navigate albums anywhere online: http://www.photothumb.com/

By: amit agarwal

amit agarwal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

try canon photorecord

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I don’t know of there just being one program that could do all of that, but Picasa would be able to do the first 2 and Web Album Generator from ornj.net could do #3. Don’t know about 4 and 5.

Unless he had a Blogger blog on his domain, in which case Picasa might be able to do more.

By: Bob Dietz

Bob Dietz — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Sue Chastain’s comments on Picasa2 are accurate, but the ease of creating a web site may not be obvious to a first time user. Here is a mini tutorial.

We’ll assume that Picasa2 is installed and has been given time to create a library of all the photos on you system.

Start Picasa2.

Browse for a photo you want to put in an album.

(If the photos have meaningful names or if they have been organized into folders with meaningful names, just type a meaningful word into search box near the upper right of Picasa2 window to narrow the list of thumbnails you’re browsing.)

When you find a photo you want to include, select it. Click the Label button (near the bottom left) and choose New Label from the pop-up menu. (At this point New Label is the only item on the pop-up menu.) The “Name” and “Description” will appear on the albums thumbnail page. “Name” will also appear with each photo in the album.

Browse for additional photos. As they are found; select them; click the Label button and use your recently created label.

When you’re done selecting photos, scroll to the top of the navigation list (left of the thumbnails) and select the label you created for this album.

In the thumbnail display, drag the thumbnails into the order you want them to appear on the web page. When you’re finished, double click on the first image in the group.

You’re now in edit view and the “Make a caption” field is already active – just start typing and press Enter when finished.

When the insertion point is not blinking (initially and after pressing Enter), you can use the right/left arrow keys to navigate to the next/previous photo. Again just start typing to add/edit captions.

Finished captioning the photos? Click the “Back to Library” button (upper left) and make the following two menu selections.
Edit> Clear Selection Ctrl+D
Label> Export as Web Page… Ctrl+W

Look for the exported web page in
My Documents\Picasa Web Exports

Picasa2 uses CSS. So NVU ( http://nvu.com/ ) makes a good companion product.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

iPAP is a nifty little photo application.