Uploading Photos To Facebook Using Picasa

Face it, we love sharing our precious moments with our friends but it gets superbly annoying when the browser crashes or freezes because of the dumb interface. If that is not annoying, scanning through hundreds of thumbnails/titles hoping that you pick the right picture can be pretty frustrating too. My favorite problem is the limit of pictures you can upload at one time when using the simple upload interface in Facebook. So today while uploading a few pics to my facebook account I decided to try something using Picasa, upload pics to the account without any plugins or 3rd party applications. It was a success!!! So below is the really simple tutorial to help you uploads pictures without any worries or waiting for decades before they are added there

The Obvious Things Required For This To Work:-

Picasa, the latest version can be downloaded at their website (Windows),(Mac) and (Linux)
A Facebook account.

Random TitBits :-

Once Picasa has been installed, you can either add the pics you need by having the folder scanned or you can wait for Picasa to automatically add the pictures
- Automatic Updates:- Tools => Folder Manager. Add/Remove the folder or drive that needs to be updated automatically

The Actual USEFUL Steps :-

Now that you have Picasa loaded along with your facebook account logged into, get the pics you need ready. When viewing the pics in Picasa, use the “hold” option in the toolbar, you can hold one pic at a time or simply click once on a folder and then click hold
Now in your facebook account, use the “create an album option”. The easiest ways to get to the right upload option are :-
- The button in the bottom toolbar of your facebook page
- Type Photos in the search box in the top right.
- OR Paste this link in your account http://www.facebook.com/editalbum.php?new
Click on the “Mobile Photos” option and note down the email address you see.
Now go back to Picasa where you had kept the pictures on hold, In the same toolbar where you earlier found “hold”, you can see an option called “Email”. Click on that, choose whether you want to use Thunderbird or your gmail account, login to your gmail account through Picasa and change the subject title to something else.. Also make sure to remove only the last two lines “These pictures…..picasa.google.com/”
Click send and then wait for the upload to finish, once done you will find all the pics in “Mobile uploads” (Facebook). All of their titles would be what you added as the subject title. You can change the titles or simply move them to the necessary album.