The Picasa Web Albums is a useful website for sharing your pictures to your friends online. It provides its users with a huge 1GB free storage for pictures and videos. If you are new to Picasa Web Albums or you want to learn more about it, here are a couple of things that you need to remember when uploading in it.

First of all, you have to remember that there is a maximum photo size that you can upload in Picasa Web Albums. Your photos must not be larger than 20MB and 50 megapixels or else the picture will not be accepted. While most photos typically do not reach that limit, it is still possible if the photo you are uploading is really big and is in an uncompressed or in raw format. To reduce the size of the photo, you can edit it in the Picasa desktop app or use another photo editing software.

Picasa Web Albums can also accept video uploads for particular users. However, videos are more complicated than pictures and therefore there are more prerequisites when uploading them. You are allowed to upload .3gp, .m2ts, .avi, .asf, .mmv, .m2t, .mov, .mp4, and .mpg in Picasa Web Albums but not flash and real media videos. The size limit is dependent on the uploader that you are using and if you are uploading through Picasa, you can upload videos up to 1GB while the Mac uploader only lets you upload up to 100MB. The videos that you export are recommended to have 30 fps frame rate, 4:3 aspect ratio, and 640 x 480 resolution.

There are a couple of way to export photos to your Picasa Web Albums and the methods are very popular are through the Picasa software, using an Android phone, via web upload, and through an iPhoto plugin. However, did you know that you can also upload to Picasa Web Albums using email? This method is particularly convenient if you want to use a mobile phone that is not an Android phone. You have to activate this feature in your account settings wherein you will be provided with an email address where you can send the images that you like to upload.