Google+ (Google Plus) and Picasa–Sharing Photos

 

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Facebook has photo sharing built into it.  Google+ does too, but since Google already has an independent photo sharing platform called Picasa, which you automatically get when you create ANY Google account, including a Google+ account, that’s the mechanism used for sharing photos with your Google+ Circles.

When you sign up for a Google+ account with an existing Google account, and you’ve already got photo albums in Picasa with that Google account, then G+ will automatically link them (or will detect that you have albums and ask you to link them with your G+ account).  If you already have photos in Picasa and you created a different Google account for G+, then you can’t really move the photos between the two accounts, directly.

How to move photos from a Picasa account that is NOT your G+ account

You’ll have to download your photos from your Picasa account to your hard drive, then re-upload them to your new Picasa account that’s automatically created with your new G+ account.

  1. Log into your existing Picasa account… the one that contains your existing photos.
  2. Download them to your hard drive.
  3. Log out of your existing Picasa account.
  4. Now, log into Picasa using your G+ login and password.  You’ll be logging into a completely separate Picasa account that likely has no photos in it.
  5. Create new albums to match the names of the ones you downloaded.
  6. Upload your photos from your hard drive into the newly created albums.
  7. Go to http://plus.google.com  (Since you logged into Picasa with your G+ account, you don’t have to relogin again… you’re already logged in).
  8. Click your “Photos” tab.
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  9. Click “Your albums”
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    • You Picasa albums will show.
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  10. Click the album you want to share.  The photos in your album will be displayed.
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  11. Add the circles and/or individual users you wish to share your album with then click the green “Share” button.
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That’s it!

Also check out The Ultimate Collection of Google+ (Google Plus) How-To’s

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article.  Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can share their Picasa photos!

Check back later for updates too!

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Good Luck!

Google+ (Google Plus): How to Create a Circle

 

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There are several different ways to create a circle in Google+.  It depends on what you’re doing at the time you decide you need one.  In this example, I’ll assume you’re not doing anything in particular and just decided you need a new circle.

  1. Click your “Circles” tab (circled in yellow highlighter below).
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  2. Notice the circles at the bottom of the page?  The bottom left one is where you create a new circle.  You can either drag and drop one or more users into it, prompting the creation of a new circle, you float your mouse over it (The text in it will change to a hotlink “Create Circle”).
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  3. Click the “Create Circle” hotlink inside the gray circle.
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  4. In the box that pops up, type in the name of your new Circle, then click the “Create empty circle” button.
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Done!

See also: 

The Ultimate Collection of Google+ (Google Plus) How-To’s

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article. Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can quickly quickly get up and going with Google+ Circles.

Check back later for updates too!

Click here to follow me on Google+.

Good Luck and Enjoy your new Google+ account!