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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 . I normally import my using and use it for organising my , so it is natural for me to use Google Picasa 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 / 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 / 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 you might have spend time tagging information about people on the . 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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Netsi Cycle Template for Google Picasa

image The other day I wrote a post about how you can add templates to Google Picasa – I now have created my first template for ! I name it “Netsi Cycle”, as it offers jQuery based auto cycling through exported .

You can download Netsi Cycle Template as a zip file here. Also visit the an online demo.

Inside the unzipped folde you will see a structure containing the files which together make the resulting webgalleri. You may want to take a look inside the structure and try changing things like:

  • Effects used
  • Speed of transitions
  • CSS styles

The transitions are handled using a jQuery plugin “jQuery Cycle Plugin” developed by M. Alsup. It is higly customizable which you can see the jQuery Cycle Plugin homepage.

Please feel free to download and put any comments, links til sites where you have used Netsi Cycle here on my blog!

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Use Google Picasa to generate cool webgalleries using templates…

Google Picasa offers so much more than just viewing on your PC and exporting them to a Google Webalbum. One of the cool ones is of template based webgallery generation. Exporting images using free can give your a twist making them very cool to watch.

How does it work?

Well you need ofcause Google Picasa. Then you need to add some “templates” inside the Picasa program. When you have done that you can get another template to choose from when you use the “Export to HTML…” option. What is generated are a folder containing files needed to show a gallery of the images you have selected.

1 Getting

This is simpel: Download and install it from Google: http://picasa.google.com

2 Adding the template

This post uses templates on: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/. You will probertly find many others elsewhere on the net! We will try to use Piecemaker.

  1. Download the ZIP file containing the templates for Picasa
  2. Extract them to a temp folder
  3. Copy the folder named “Piecemaker” to a folder inside your Picasa installation – something like: “C:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\web\templates”
  4. Start Picasa

3 Exporting some images using a template

You simply choose some images in Picasa. Then you find the “Export to HTML..” under the “Folder” menu (my version is in Danish, so it might be called something in that direction). Here you can see how it looks in my Danish Picasa when I choose the “Export to HTML…”:

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When you choose the menu item you get a box with some choices. Here you can see which templates are installed inside your Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Picasa – probertly some basic ones plus Piecemaker which you just “installed” above. Choose Piecemaker and change other settings if you like…

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When you have choses the “export” (here: “Eksporter” – in Danish) Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Picasa will generate the static files inside the folder you can see above as “Mappe”. You do not need to worrie so much about it now, because when exporting is done Picasa will launce the file showing the final result!

Usefull links and information

You can read the instructions on how to add templates to Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa from the FAQ on the website of Paul Van Roekel. Another page on that site has some videoes showing how to… The example above is IFRAMED into this post, which is okay, but not perfect. Also I have changed the index.html file inside the template to include a link to my blog – ofcause you can make other changes… Perhaps one day you can even create your own template!

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