I want to upload movies to YouTube from my Picasa account – without being forced to join Google+. The channel creation has a box to check saying you understand the changes this will make to your Picasa account, but doesn't explain if you will lose Picasa and be automatically forced into G+.
Youtube – Can you upload to YouTube from Picasa Web Albums without changing to Google+
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Use email upload to upload photos to Picasa Web Albums by sending them to a secret email address, especially useful from your mobile device. This allows you to stream and caption photos on-the-go. To get started, follow these steps:
- Sign in to your acount at http://picasaweb.google.com/.
- Click the gear
icon in the top-right corner and choose Photos settings.
- On the General tab, in the "Upload photos by email" section, select the "Allow me to upload photos by email." checkbox.
- Enter a "secret word," 6-15 characters long. As you enter this word, an email address appears.
- Click the Save changes button.
- To email upload your photos, just attach them to an email message and send it to the newly-created address.
Use the email "Subject" line to add captions or to include the photos in a specific album. If the email "Subject" line matches an existing online album title, your photos will be uploaded to that album. Otherwise the 'Subject' line will instead be added as a caption and the photos will be placed in the Drop Box album. Learn more about the Drop Box album.
If not directly, the following workaround may work for you:
- Navigate to the image in Picasa, so that you're viewing a single photo with navigation arrows on each side
- Click the Full screen button
- Right-click on the image, and:
- In Chrome or Firefox: Click Copy image address
- In Internet Explorer: Click Properties, and select the URL address
- In Safari: Don't have a Mac right now, but a similar option exists
- Click on the browser's location bar, selecting the text already there
- Type Ctrl+V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the image address, and press Enter
- The image is displayed in the browser - type Ctrl-P (Command-P) to print it
Best Answer
Picasa - A photo storage service from Google (also an application by Google) Google+ - The social network from Google
Both Picasa and Google+ are from Google, and to make it easy to manage Google accounts, Google is now integrating Google+ with most of their products and Picasa is one of them.
I suggest you to switch to G+, it has more features and all your products will be managed from one single profile (your G+ profile). Try it, G+ is better.