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Google Picasa Template: Camera, a responsive jQuery slideshow

If you like me use Google Picasa to organize your , this HTML template for should make you clap your hands. I have created a new free Template based on the brilliant slideshow called “Camera” from Manuel Masia from Pixedelic. At the bottom there is a link to the jQuery based free slideshow, if you want to read more about it.

About Google Picasa Templates

Google Picasa have support for exporting selected images or image folders to HTML (well actually you can export it into what you like, XML, CSV or….). It is a simple offline template system where you are given some simple tools like template tags, includes and loops. Read more here: Picasa Web Templating System (a copy of the domentation included in the Google Picasa application). Previously I have shared a flash based slideshow Google Picasa template, which you might also want to install: Netsi Cycle Template for Google Picasa

Example implementation

The above iframe shows example output from the . It should be viewed in its own window as only there you will se the very powerfull “responsive webdesign” which is one of the very cool features of HTML slideshows generated using Camera Picasa Template.

 

First step: You can download the raw version

Dowload and install the Camera Picasa Template

or on github:
https://github.com/netsi1964/Google-Picasa-Camera-template

Next step…

This is the first release of my latest Google Picasa template – Camera Picasa Template, downloading the zip file and following the instructions found in the read-me.txt file inside the zip file will make it possibel to get the same cool slideshow of your favourite pictures. I will return at a later stage with more information and perhaps a webapp which will let you configure all the many settings that the Camera slideshow offers. If you cant wait, take a look at the “settings.js” file, simple comments found in the javascript settings file will help you.

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Publish your pictures directly to Twitter from Google Picasa using “Tvivo” button.

is a very cool free photo/image handling software which can also be extended in various ways. You may add buttons which can for instance publish to or to . Today I discovered and tested Tvivo button. It will add a button to your Google Picasa application giving a one click publish to Twitter funktionality. Very easy, effective and cool!

Simply visit http://tvivo.espectrale.com/
and do a one-click installation of the Tweet button
to your Google Picasa application!

 

When you click the button you will be taken to a new window where you the first time have to logon to your Twitter account. You may then add the “tweet text” to be shown Twitter together with the link to your image stored at “yfrog.com”.

The Tvivo button which will publish your current image to Twitter

This is an example of a image I have send to Twitter from Google Picasa using Tvivo:

Example of image published to twitter using Tvivo for Google Picasa

The only bad thing I personally can say about this button: The graphical design of the button… Not my taste. Smiley

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Finally! Flickr reads geolocation from your images!

I am a big fan of Picasa on my PC, and when I discovered that there exists a tool: “ Uploadr” (Read my post about it: Drag’n'drop upload images to your flickr gallery using flickr uploader) Flickr became a valid place for me to share my images. I normally import my images using and use it for organising my , so it is natural for me to use to geotag my images. In case you dont know that is – it is a geolocation tagging standard, you may see it as a piece of information stored within the image, which tells the viewer where the photo has been taken. It is only natural, as the date and time already is stored inside the photo. So now when you show your photoes to your grandchildren you dont have to worrie about having forgotten where and when the photo was taken, and perhaps a few tags to support your lacking memory Smiley

Now Flickr will read the geotag from the image, stored by for instance Google Picasa!

As you can see below, I am using the webbased Flickr editing tool for my published images – and believe me, that location was stored using Google Picasa! Nice work Yahoo! But where is the automatic tag look-up? Why not go all the way and read the tags which I have added to the photo using Goggle Picasa?

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You may see the image above here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38942406@N00/5221350717/in/photostream/

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Drag’n’drop upload images to your Flickr Gallery using Flickr uploader

Every time I copy images/ from my Canon IXUS 970 IX camera to my computer I use   – it works perfect for me, especially with the many options to organise, tag and manipulate the images in a very nice way. When it comes to /photoes however I have a feeling that Yahoo seems to be a more “serious” site. Here I will tell you about how you can easily copy photoes from “one world” (Google Picasa) to “the other” ().

How do I copy my photoes from Google Picasa to Flickr?

I asked my self this question, and googling a litle lead me to a soloution: Flickr Uploader application for windows. It is free (ofcause) and works very easy! The reason why you should consider this at all is if you like for instance the way you can tag you photoes in Google Picasa – and when you then share your photoes you will have such info as tags, geo tags, descriptions inside the photoes for other people to enjoy.

Simple description (see screenshoots below)
  • You ofcause need to have a (free) Yahoo identity/account and when you do you can download from http://www.flickr.com/tools/
  • Having downloaded and installed Flickr Uploader you can start up your Google Picasa application
  • Now you can actually just drag’n’drop directly from Google Picasa to Yahoo flickr uploader! Very easy!
  • When you are done – click upload inside Yahoo flickr uploader! The rest is easy!
Nothing is perfect…

I must however admit that not every piece of information survives the transfer between Google Picasa and Yahoo flickr gallery… I was suppriced to discover that apperently the geotags from Google Picasa was not picked up by Flickr…! I would love to hear from you, if you can explain this to me…

Anyway – try it out, and if you feel like looking at my Flickr site you find it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38942406@N00/sets/72157624659090233/

My photoes inside Google Picasa

Flickr uploader uploading images to my Flickr account

Flickr offers you to put some information to be shown along the image

One of the uploaded images - but heh! Where is the geotagging? :-(

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Merging the information about friends on facebook to your Picasa contact database

If you use to handle your images you might have spend time tagging information about people on the images. Today I discovered a nice free utility which can merge information about your friends from with the contact data keept within Google Picasa, giving you more correct tagging information inside your local Picasa albums.

Go download the utility: “Facebook Contacts for Picasa”

You need only do a few simple things to do the merging job. First of all you will need to download the “Facebook Contacts for Picasa” from SourceForge.

Run the utility!

When you have finished downloading the utility, simply run it. You will get the screen below:

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The steps to follow inside the utility

  • Get the facebook contacts simply by clicking the button “Get Facebook Contacts” and identify yourself (log in – may be nessesary).
    That will get the information about your friends from facebook and put them in the list to the left (blured in the image above).
  • You then need to locate the “contacts.xml” which Picasa uses. It should be somewhere within “Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2”. I found mine here: “C:\Users\Sten\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\contacts\contacts.xml”. Be sure to make a backup of that file – the contacts.xml file.
  • Press the “Get Picasa Contacts” to fill out the dropdown box to the right of “Merge With”. That dropdown will contain the local contacts which you may allready have created.
  • Manually go through the list to the left – the one from facebook. The Utility may or may not have found a match. So I suggest that you go through them. This feature has however a strange behaviour! It seems that after each time you manually select a contact from the “Merge with” list, you have to save it… Hmm… It however seems to work, though not as I expected.

    I expected that going through the list and choosing which person from facebook to merge to which Picasa contact, the relation was remembered and all of the relations then saved after I had finished them all and pressed save…

You are now ready to Save the data to the Google Picasa contacts.xml file! But as I suggested above, do make a copy of the contacts.xml before saving!

If everything went okay you should now have more accurate information inside your local Google Picasa gallery! You can now tag people using those data inside your picasa library.

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