Get Old PicasaWeb Photo Albums

If you have not tried it yet, PicasaWeb photo albums are a great way to store, share, and publish sets of photos on a Google Site - or just a place to stash them.  To get to it, after logging in to your Google account, open a new tab and type in http://picasaweb.google.com. Upload your photos into folder - caption them if you want - edit them if you want.  In Google Sites, there is an option Insert, PicasaWeb Photo Albums - and the albums you upload will appear as choices.  You can make them self advancing (as many as are in one album).

One thing that has been very annoying lately is that if you have Google+ there is a totally different interface than if you do not.  There is a solution for this!!!

Right after you start picasaweb.google.com, if you have Google+ a brief yellow option comes up - "Click here to go back to Picasa Web Albums".  Click on the word here and you'll go to the old interface.  Yay!!!

 

Thanks to this page for the complete instructions:

http://abcictsolutions.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-sharing-and-embedding-photo.html