Okay, here's the tutorial. Its long because I am trying to be very detailed. Its not as complicated as it might look. I'm just going thru every step in detail. Tutorial: Getting a pic from your PC-Picasa desktop app to Picasaweb to GW. Emphasis on Picasaweb-to-GW Upload from Picasa3 Desktop to Picasaweb Step 1. browse in your library to desired picture(s). You can do this on the page with all pics in your library. Just select the pic(s) you want. Or it can be after you have double-clicked to view a particular picture. Select the pic and "hold" it in your tray. (green icon). Press the UPLOAD button. You will get an Upload dialog box something like this: Step 2. Choose upload options (a) by default the target (web) album title will be named the same as the folder of the picasa3 library. In above example, it was "clematis" because that is where the picture came from on my PC. However, on picasaweb, I keep a folder just for pics that I post on GW, called SHOWGW. That way I don't have to think about deleting or moving anything and messing up the GW thread with a red-x. So in above screenshot, at the top where it says "upload to this album", I have already used the pulldown to pick the existing ShowGW album to use. This dialog box can also be used to create a new album called "ShowGW" or whatever you want. It looks a little different than above. The default access is private or unlisted. Make sure you select Public (b) select the size you want. I am showing you the 4 size choices they provide. 1024 pixels is the default and that is fine. I used 1600 in this case. When they say "original size (slowest)", that's assuming the original size is larger than 1600 or you are on dial-up. Step 3. Press the upload button. You will get a progress bar dialog and pic(s) are copied to picasaweb. Linking from Picasaweb to GW Step 4. Go to your picasaweb space and access the picture you want to embed in a GW conversation. Picasa3(and older) offer a quick link. On the upper right corner of Picasa3 there is a link "Web Albums" that will get you to your web albums. If you go "back" to your Picasa3 library, that folder will have a more direct link to go directly to the web target folder that you just uploaded to. In my case I got a link to "View 'ShowGW'" Step 5. Double-click on the picture from the album page to generate a picture page like so: Step 6. Click on the "Link to this photo" link to expose the choices on how to link. Step 7. For this exercise, you want EMBED IMAGE. Not link. (a) First Check the Hide Album box - unless you want viewers to see an extra link to your entire album. I generally do not want that so I check HIDE ALBUM. (b) then select the size of the picture you want to show. It is always a clickable thumbnail-type picture as I am doing in this thread. I have used 400px in this thread. You can try other sizes too. I like to use a size big enough that can be viewed without the viewer having to click (but they can if they want to see it larger). (c) then -- and this must be LAST -- select the entire line in the box that starts "a href". Right click on it and select COPY (or do CTRL-C keyboard shortcut if you're into that) Step 8. Now you have the all important html code in your windows clipboard buffer. Go to the Gardenweb page where you are posting and in the message window, right-click PASTE (or CTRL-V). Might look something like this: And you're done! Preview your message and you should see your embedded image. Like this: By the way, that picture I uploaded to picasaweb as original size (3MB). I am confused, however, because I showed uploading it as 1600KB. Lets ignore that for the moment. If you click on the picture, you are viewing it in my picasaweb showGW album. Then you can click on the zoom button and get some closeup precision. I don't usually upload so large, but I was curious and wanted to see. Hope this helps and I didn't overwhelm anyone. Good luck!!!

I have my photos stored on Picasa web album, and here's how I upload my photos from Picasa to GW. 1 - I check that my albums are shared with "Limited, anyone with the link", if they're not Public; 2 - I open the photo that I want to upload; 3 - I look on the right side of the photo to locate "Link to this photo" and click on that; 4 - I high-light the codes in the box under "Embed image", then copy the codes; 5 - I return to my post on GW and paste the copied codes. I always got my photos appeared in my post on here. Hope that helps. By the way, I'd like to share photo of my two bulbs recently received from Royal colors. Xuan

Picassa (and other photo editors) allow you to rearrange pictures within the application. When you move those pictures outside of Picassa, they are arranged by tradition standards like file name, date, etc. The only real option you have would be to export the files from Picassa creating a new, sequential file name for each.

"...how the heck could 3 mb be too large? Do you have any ideas?" I see two galleries, I've used neither. Trying them just now, they don't seem to get along with Firefox? I'm assuming this is the upload form you're using? http://photos.gardenweb.com/garden/galleries/upload.html If so, it does say "Make sure the image doesn't exceed 500 KB". That being the case, your images are around six time too large. I'm betting that if, as suggested by DA, you use Irfanview to downsize them first, they'll upload fine. BTW, the uploader that's available here in these forums(not the gallery) allows a full "5000 k". It resizes the images to make them more bandwidth friendly. Although it's been a very long time since I've been on dial-up, I remember it being excruciatingly slow. Loading a page containing even a single 3 MiB image would have probably given me time to go brew a pot of coffee, come back and drink a cup. Am I remembering it being worse than it really was? At about 3 KiB/s download speed(I lived way out in the sticks) it would have taken how long? Maybe 1024 secs? 17 minutes? Maybe my math is not precise but the point is that although 3 MiB is small for those with high-speed Internet, for those on dial-up it's really huge.