Thanks for the good info, everyone. Kevin, the Flickr Share function works. Yea Nancy, unless Yahoo's sold Flickr to Google since 09/2011, it appears to be G-free. Have you found other info? http://www.launch.co/blog/a-horribly-unimpressive-list-of-products-yahoo-launched-unde.html Arthur, thanks for the info on Flickr Pro. Mostly, I'll use it to upload images to post here, so no concerns about running out of space. Lordy, Bob - since their wretched changes last month, Google's sounded worse than FB. What precautions do we need to take w/ FB? My privacy settings are the strictest allowed for having friends. I deleted the gmail acc't I was using only for FB and changed to Yahoo. Still don't trust Google not to track me through the deleted account. My understanding is, each time you log out of FB and even close their sign-in page, they track your subsequent activity until you clear history. Is that right? From an article on Google changes: (After March 1,) the simplest step to prevent Google from combining data it collects on multiple services is to not sign into Google when using them. For example, if you're a Gmail user, you could log out of Gmail before using Google Search, Google Maps or YouTube. - Google already uses your search history (visible in your Web History) to target advertisements in search. - Google could potentially use information from your search history to target an advertisement to you in YouTube, Google Maps, and Gmail, among many other services. - Any features involving personalization based on Web History won't apply if you have Web History turned off. - With Web History enabled, G will keep these records indefinitely. - Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. - It also does not change the fact that ANY INFORMATION GATHERED AND STORED BY GOOGLE COULD BE SOUGHT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. (emphasis mine) - With Web History disabled, personal information will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. - Instructions for disabling Web History are in the article. Here is a link that might be useful: Prevent Google From Tracking Your Web History

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!!!

Hi Calypsogirl, Have you looked at Picasa? It's a free program for your computer and a website that allows up to 1 GB of storage. The program allows you to organize them in folders on your computer. You can add captions and comments, crop, straighten, adjust contrast, and lots of other special effects. When you have them exactly like you want them on your computer, they have an easy upload button which connects to your online account. I'll give you a link so you can check them out. Good luck - Kathy Here is a link that might be useful: Picasa

R-C...thanks, went there, but couldn't find an answer...will have a look at bob's link. Otherwise, will have to save them to thumbdrive or such...just hoped to save that extra process. Thank you both!