What's New on Picasa Web Albums?

Check out some of the things we’ve recently launched. We’re working hard to make Picasa Web Albums better, and to add new features as quickly as possible. Is there a feature you’d like to see? Let us know!

Map your photos
See your photos arranged on a map, and show friends exactly where you took your best pictures. Simply type a location into the 'Place Taken' field when creating a new album, or refine a photo's placement using a drag-and-drop map. It's a great way to share photos from a summer vacation or road trip. For a quick peek at what results look like, check out our demo album.

Picasa Web Albums for mobile devices
Take your favorite pictures with you everywhere.  You can now use your mobile phone to see any picture you've posted to Picasa Web Albums.  You can even post comments on your friends' latest photos.

Make that slideshow to go!
Create a portable Flash slideshow that you can embed in your blog or any other web page, like MySpace. Simply go to an album, click the "Embed Slideshow" link, and copy and paste the HTML shown into your website. The slideshow has built-in playback controls (just rollover to reveal), and it gives you the ability to turn captions on or off and pick from multiple sizes. Learn more

Bigger photo uploads
We've doubled the size of the images you can upload - from 10MB to 20MB per image. As always, you can still use Picasa to reduce the file size of the photos you're uploading to Picasa Web Albums.

Picasa Web Albums data API
Now developers can create applications that build on content in their Picasa Web Albums. This API lets your applications display, modify and query Picasa Web Albums data. Learn more and see example projects

Share photo albums in your instant messages
You can now share photo albums in your chats with the Google Talk Gadget. Paste a URL from Picasa Web Albums into your chat, and you can scroll through a slideshow of the album right in your conversation.

Search community photos
Discover and explore public photos posted by others in the Picasa Web Albums community. You can look up captions, tags, album titles, album locations, and album descriptions. Search also works across only My Photos or My Favorites if you're signed in.

More free storage
We've upped the free storage quota to 1GB (and counting!). That's enough room to post and share around 4,000 standard resolution photos. Need more storage space? Upgrade

Link to this album or photo
It's now easier to link to an album or photo from an email, IM, or web page. Just copy and paste the url and/or HTML code we show you. Plus, pick from four photos sizes for your web page.

View Blogger photos
All photos uploaded through Blogger now appear in My Photos. The titles of these Blogger web albums match the titles of their respective blog posts. Now the photos you use in both services can be managed from one place. Learn more.

Anyone can upload videos using Picasa
Finally, a way to share those digital camera movies with friends. Learn more

Order prints and photo products
If one of our print providers sells it, you can order it.

Now available in 18 additional languages
Picasa Web Albums now works in the following languages:English (UK), English (US), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. If you are running an older version of Picasa in one of these languages, you will automatically be upgraded to the latest version of the software with the new "Web Album" button.

Anyone can now try Picasa Web Albums
Now when your friends ask how they can get Picasa Web Albums for themselves, just let them know that all they need is a free Google Account.

Email notifications
Find out when friends leave comments on your photos or if one of your favorites has uploaded new photos.  Learn more

Link to your friends
Let everyone know about a friend’s or a favorite gallery by adding it to your "Linked galleries" on your public gallery page.  Learn more

Use your Mac to upload photos
Now there's a free download that comes with two ways for Mac users to upload photos to Picasa Web Albums -- from directly within iPhoto or using drag-and-drop from a standalone application.  Learn more