Picasa Tip: Picasa to Facebook

If you have a Facebook page – you may want to upload photos from Picasa to Facebook. 

The long way is to prepare your photos in Picasa and Export them to a separate folder.  Then, using Facebook’s upload utility, you can select all the photos in that folder.
see Video: Preparing photos for other Programs with Export (Members only)

The short way is to download a third party tool called Picasa Uploader.  The purpose of this program is to add a button to the bottom row of buttons in Picasa.  It is a Facebook button and it will work like all the others.  Simply select the photos you want to upload to Facebook, click the facebook button, and follow the prompts. 

Here’s the step-by-step: Go to the  Picasa Uploader page, and click on the big button to Install Now.’  Follow the prompts and click ‘Allow’ or ‘Yes’ or ‘Ok’ for any messages that come up.  Shortly you should see the ‘Configure Buttons’ screen.  Click on the Facebook Button and click ‘Add>> 

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When you click OK, you should see the Facebook button at the bottom of your screen with all the other Picasa buttons.  To get back to that ‘Configure Buttons’ screen in order to add, remove, or rearrange your buttons, click on the Tools menu and ‘Configure buttons.’ 

So, for example, if you don’t have enough screen room for all of them, you might want to remove the BlogThis! button (I never use that one because it limits me to 4 pictures). To change the order of the buttons, click on a button to move, then click on the Move Up or Move Down button.  To clean up the buttons and return to basic Picasa, click on ‘Reset to Defaults.’

Now you should have a Facebook button at the bottom of your Picasa screen.  To upload photos to Facebook, simply select them and click that button!

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The first time you do this, you will need to log in with your Facebook username and password.  Then you should see a screen where you can specify an existing Facebook album, or make a new one.  You can also specify whether the album should be private or public.

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The final step is to ‘Approve’ all your photos.  Be sure they are all selected, then click ‘Approve Selected Photos.’

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If you’ve ever tried to use Facebook’s album feature, you can appreciate how much easier this is!  Although I’m not a big fan of Facebook, so many people use it, that it’s become almost a necessity.  The connections that are made on Facebook just by the sheer volume of people who use it are quite impressive. 

With this great plug-in tool, at least the photo album part of Facebook has become *very* easy.  The Picasa Facebook button takes care of resizing your photos appropriately, it also keeps your Picasa caption and displays it on the Facebook album.  This button works on both Windows and Macintosh versions of Picasa.

Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
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8 Comments to Picasa Tip: Picasa to Facebook

  • Amy says:

    I tried to do this with a business page, and it didn’t work for me.

  • isabella says:

    when i press the install now thing nothing happens…help!

  • Christian says:

    I had to manually download it, since it did not recognize that I had the latest Picasa version and the button was grayed out for me even after reinstalling Picasa.

    It downloaded a zip file called
    facebook_v2.pbz.zip

    I exported it into the buttons folder in Picasa 3
    C:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\buttons

    It exported 2 files
    {90ce7401-1ac0-4aba-bbd4-544a1533a517}.pbf
    {90ce7401-1ac0-4aba-bbd4-544a1533a517}.psd

    I found it strange that it did not export one PBZ file as that was the format for the rest of the buttons.

    After this, it appeared within configure buttons in Picasa but did not have an icon and did not allow me to add it to my buttons.

    I realized you are not supposed to export the zip file but simply delete the .zip extension on the file name and it will work just fine.

    This is not documented anywhere….

  • Travis says:

    I cannot upload to an existing album. It shows them, but they cannot be selected. The only option I have is to create a new album. This makes the whole thing useless to me.

    Ideas?

    • Chris Guld says:

      Don’t know. But, one thing to check, be sure you’re logged in properly on the web – to the correct web album. Try uploading from the Web album instead of from Picasa and see if that works.

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