{"id":29780,"date":"2012-10-26T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:42:44","slug":"how-to-e-mail-photos-from-picasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-e-mail-photos-from-picasa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to e-mail photos from Picasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30167\" title=\"picasa-logo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-24.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>You don&#8217;t have to upload photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Picasa<\/strong><\/a> to Picasaweb in order to share them. If you just want to send a photo by good old e-mail to someone from within Picasa, it&#8217;s very easy to do.\u00a0 Picasa is integrated with Gmail so it is recommended that you setup a Gmail account but you can also send photos using any mail client installed on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to e-mail a photo from Picasa in 5 easy steps:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->1. Select the photo that you want to send in the Picasa browser:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29781\" title=\"picasa browser\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-browser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-browser.png 496w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-browser-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. In the top left corner of the screen, go to <strong>File<\/strong> and select <strong>E-Mail: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29784\" title=\"Picasa File Menu\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Picasa-File-Menu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Picasa-File-Menu.png 599w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Picasa-File-Menu-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. A dialog box will open asking you which e-mail client you&#8217;d like to use (either Gmail or your own e-mail client). I selected Gmail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29787\" title=\"picasa email login\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login.png 493w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Another dialog will open allowing you to login into your Gmail account:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29790\" title=\"picasa email login\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login1.png 882w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-email-login1-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Once logged in, simply type the address of your recipient, write a message, click <strong>Send<\/strong> and you&#8217;re done!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29792\" title=\"picasa gmail send photo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-gmail-send-photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-gmail-send-photo.png 493w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/picasa-gmail-send-photo-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to upload photos from Picasa to Picasaweb in order to share them. If you just want to send a photo by good old e-mail to someone from within Picasa, it&#8217;s very easy to do.\u00a0 Picasa is integrated with Gmail so it is recommended that you setup a Gmail account but you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-e-mail-photos-from-picasa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to e-mail photos from Picasa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2907],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpicasa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333576,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions\/333576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}