多年来，许多人一直在使用Google的Picasa 照片管理软件(photo management software)在云中存储和共享(store and share)照片。它是免费的、易于使用的，并且可以让您与其他人分享您的照片变得非常简单。但是，正如我们所见，Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)提供了比Picasa 桌面应用程序(desktop app)更多的功能，因此，如果您正在寻找优质、免费的照片和图像(photo and image)编辑软件，那么使用它是很有意义的。如果您在计算机上使用Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)，但您有很多Picasa ，该怎么办？(Picasa)网络相册，尤其是您与其他人共享的相册，您还没有准备好转换为其他格式？两者可以一起使用吗？让我们来了解一下。
调整照片库(Photo Gallery)- 安装Picasa 插件(Picasa Plugin)
我将假设您已经设置了Picasa网络相册，并且您想使用(Picasa)照片库(Photo Gallery)向其中添加更多图像。出于本教程的目的，我将使用一个演示相册(demo album)，其中包含我在关于标记照片的文章中使用的美国总统照片。
Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)需要一个插件才能将其直接发布到Picasa。Microsoft在此处提供插件(plug-in here)。虽然插件本身已经有几年的历史了，而且描述中只提到了Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011，但它在Windows Photo Gallery 2012上运行良好。
下载插件后，确保照片库(Photo Gallery)没有运行，然后双击它运行安装程序。
安装插件后，您可以打开Photo Gallery。在主页(Home)选项卡上的共享(Sharing)下，当您展开选项列表时，您现在会看到Picasa添加到列表中。
单击新添加的Picasa选项，系统将提示您提供电子邮件地址和密码(email address and password)。虽然登录框(login box)没有明确说明您需要提供哪个电子邮件地址，但它需要的是您的Gmail 地址(Gmail address)。如果您愿意，您可以选择让照片库(Photo Gallery)记住您的ID and/or密码以供将来登录。
注意：(NOTE:)您需要已经在线设置 Picasa，(Picasa set up online)否则连接将失败（这是合乎逻辑的）。
如何将照片(Photos)发布到Picasa 网络相册(Picasa Web Albums)
现在您可以分享您的照片了。在照片库(Photo Gallery)中选择要发送到Picasa的照片或相册(photos or album)，然后单击照片上方的共享(Share)按钮。每个专辑都有自己的一组按钮。
从下拉菜单中，单击启用同步(Enable Sync)。
您将获得一个窗口，允许您为网络相册(web album)选择各种选项。您可以接受默认值，或根据需要更改某些设置。
以下是您可以更改设置的方法。出于本教程的目的，我接受了默认设置，这对大多数人来说应该可以正常工作。
您会看到一条小消息，表明专辑正在同步。
然后是一条消息，该专辑已同步并仅与您共享。这是我们将在本教程的下一部分中更改的内容。
如何与其他人分享您的照片
现在您已将照片从照片库(Photo Gallery)上传到您的Picasa网络相册，是时候使用Picasa的功能来共享您的相册了。
再次单击共享(Share)下拉菜单并选择在线查看(View Online)。
这会将您直接带到您的Picasa相册。奇怪的是，如果您想分享您的相册，您不会从单击“分享(Share)”按钮开始。单击屏幕右侧的小向下箭头以设置共享。
您将获得几个分享选项——Google+ 或通过链接。
如果您想通过Google+与您的圈子分享相册，请点击“添加姓名、圈子或电子邮件地址”("Add names, circles or email addresses")框，它将显示您的Google+选项。
从那里，您可以单击要与之共享的圈子的名称。这样做的缺点是您无法选择要发送给圈子中的哪个人。似乎全有或全无。
如果您不想与整个圈子分享，通过链接分享(Share via Link)似乎是一个更好的选择。单击(Click)此链接，Picasa将显示一个已突出显示的链接，以便您可以将其复制粘贴到电子邮件或消息或任何您喜欢的内容中。有一条警告消息(warning message)，任何获得该链接的人也可以共享您的相册——如果您不希望这种情况发生，请单击一个有用的框。
不幸的是，如果您确实选择了禁用转发(Disable reshares)选项，它会清除您的链接。这对我来说似乎是一个非常愚蠢的设计，但这就是它的工作方式。
但是现在，既然您已经设置了共享选项，那么您就有了另一种共享方式，那就是我们之前绕过的共享按钮。(Share)单击此按钮，您将获得更多选项。它设置为与您的圈子共享相册，因此，如果您不希望这样做，请单击您的圈子(your circles)对象上的X 按钮(X button)将其删除。
然后你就可以开始输入人们的名字了。如果他们在您的Google+ 朋友(friends)列表或您的联系人中，您将获得可供选择的可能性列表。在这里，我开始输入一个熟悉的名字。
单击该名称，Picasa会将其插入到要与之共享的人员列表中。点击(Click) 分享(Share)，就这么简单。
结论
尽管Picasa共享不是“开箱即用”的Windows 照片库的一部分，但添加它很简单。(Windows Photo Gallery)借助这两个出色的免费工具，您只需单击几下即可轻松编辑、存储和共享您的照片。您是否使用照片库(Photo Gallery)来共享您的Picasa相册？请(Please)在评论中告诉我们。
How to Publish Photos to Picasa & Google+ with Windows Photo Gallery
Many people have been using Google's Picasa photo management software to store and share their photos in the cloud for years. It's free, easy to use, and makes sharing your photos with other people about as simple as it gets. But, as we've seen, Windows Photo Gallery offers a lot more features than the Picasa desktop app does, so if you're looking for good, free, photo and image editing software it makes a lot of sense to use that instead. What if you use Windows Photo Gallery on your computer but you've got a lot of Picasa web albums, especially albums that you have shared with other people, that you're not ready to move to a different format? Can the two be used together? Let's find out.
Adapting Photo Gallery - Installing the Picasa Plugin
I am going to assume that you already have Picasa web albums set up and you want to add more images to them using Photo Gallery. For the purposes of the tutorial I will be using a demo album with the photos of American presidents I used in my article on tagging photos.
Windows Photo Gallery needs a plug-in to allow it to publish directly to Picasa. Microsoft supplies the plug-in here. Although the plug-in itself is a couple years old and the description only mentions Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, it works fine with Windows Photo Gallery 2012.
After you've downloaded the plug-in, make sure that Photo Gallery is not running, and then double-click it to run the installer.
Once the plug-in is installed, you can open Photo Gallery. On the Home tab, under Sharing, when you expand the list of options you'll now see Picasa added to the list.
Click on the newly added Picasa option, and you'll be prompted to supply your email address and password. Although the login box does not make it clear which email address you need to supply, it's your Gmail address that it wants. You can choose to have Photo Gallery remember your ID and/or password for future logins, if you like.
NOTE: You will need to have Picasa set up online already or the connection will fail (which is logical).
How to Publish Photos to Picasa Web Albums
Now you are ready to share your photos. Choose the photos or album in Photo Gallery that you want to send to Picasa, and then click the Share button above your photos. Each album has its own set of buttons.
From the drop-down menu, click Enable Sync.
You'll get a window that allows you to choose various options for your web album. You can accept the defaults, or change some settings as you wish.
Here are the ways you can change your settings. For the purpose of the tutorial, I accepted the default settings, which should work fine for most people.
You'll see a small message that the album is syncing.
And then a message that the album is synced and shared only with you. This is what we're going to change in the next part of the tutorial.
How to Share your Photos with Other People
Now that you have uploaded your photos from Photo Gallery to your Picasa web album, it's time to use Picasa's features to share your album.
Click the Share drop-down menu again and choose View Online.
This will take you directly to your Picasa album. Oddly enough, if you want to share your album you don't start by clicking the Share button. Click the small down-arrow on the right side of the screen to set up sharing.
You'll be given a couple of options for your share—Google+ or via a link.
If you want to share the album with your circles via Google+, click in the "Add names, circles or email addresses" box and it will display your Google+ options.
From there, you can click on the name of the circle you want to share with. The downside of doing this is that you can't pick and choose which of the people in the circle to send to. It appears to be all or nothing.,
If you don't want to share with an entire circle, Share via Link appears to be a better option. Click on this, and Picasa will display a link already highlighted so that you can copy-paste it into an email or a message or whatever you like. There's a warning message that anyone who gets the link can also share your album—and a helpful box to click if you don't want this to happen.
Unfortunately, if you do choose the Disable reshares option it wipes out your link. This seems like a very dumb design to me, but that is the way it works.
But now since you've set up your sharing options, you have another way to share, and it's that Share button that we bypassed before. Click on this, and you'll get some more options. It comes set up to share the album with your circles, so if you don't want that, click the X button on the your circles object to remove it.
Then you can start typing in people's names. If they are in your Google+ friends list, or your contacts, you'll get a list of possibilities to choose from. Here, I have started typing in a familiar name.
Click on that name, and Picasa inserts it into the list of people to be shared with. Click Share, and it's as simple as that.
Conclusion
Although Picasa sharing isn't a part of Windows Photo Gallery "out of the box," adding it is simple. With these two great free tools working together, you can edit, store, and share your photos easily with just a few clicks. Have you used Photo Gallery to share your Picasa albums? Please tell us about it in the comments.
