--- title: Picasa Web Albums date: "2006-06-14T12:00:00Z" categories: - links wp_id: 295 description: I explored the new Picasa Web Albums, finding its integration with Picasa and Google Earth for geotagging impressive. While it lags behind Flickr in social features, the seamless workflow with Google's desktop photo software is a major plus. keywords: [picasa web albums, google earth, geotagging, flickr, photo sharing, image hosting] --- Google has released [Picasa Web Albums](http://picasaweb.google.com/) and I managed to sign up. See [my web albums](http://picasaweb.google.com/root.node). The bad part about Picasa Web is that it's a long way from [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/) in terms of tagging and sharing. But it probably wasn't built for that. The good part is that it's integrated with [Picasa](http://picasa.google.com/) (integration with Flickr was my top wishlist item for Picasa) and best of all, with [Google Earth](http://earth.google.com/). You can geotag photos on the new Beta version of Picasa. --- ## Comments - **Dhar** _14 Jun 2006 9:25 am_: Two quick questions: \ 1. Can I view the orginal size of the image or will I be restricted to some lower resolution image? \ 2. Are there any upload limits (per image or per month)?\ Cheers, D. - **Dhar** _14 Jun 2006 9:28 am_: Oh OK. Question answered:\ "High-quality photos, automatically resized and optimized to fill available screen space"\ "Each Picasa Web Albums account comes with 250MB of free storage space"\ Details [here](http://picasa.google.com/web/help.html).