Email Your Photos

Using Picasa

Click here to download Picasa 3. Save the downloaded file to your desktop, then double-click its icon to start installing Picasa.

The first time you use Picasa, it'll ask you whether you'd like for it to Completely scan your computer for pictures or Only scan My Documents, My Pictures, and the Desktop. My strong suggestion is to tell it to Only scan My Documents, My Pictures, and the Desktop.

Picasa will automatically find all the photos you've previously downloaded to your computer. If you want to download new photos to your computer, click the Import button at the upper left of the screen.

Go to TOOLS (on the menu bar) > OPTIONS. Click on the second tab, E-Mail (circled below), and check Let me choose each time I send pictures. Now go down to the Output Options section. If you have dialup internet access, click and drag the slider to 640 pixels; if you have broadband (DSL, cable, etc.), you can move the slider to 800 or even 1024 pixels. Click OK.

Choose the photo you'd like to resize by either clicking on its thumbnail once, which will put a blue border around it, showing that it's selected; or by double-clicking on its thumbnail, to see a larger version of the photo.

Now click the Email button at the bottom of the Picasa screen (circled, below -- the button may look slightly different than the one shown below, but it's the same thing). Choose Google Mail or GMail (they are the same thing); if you don't already have a GMail account, sign up for one. (A GMail account is free; you can learn how to make it work with your regular email address by clicking here). Because Picasa and GMail are both Google programs, they work seamlessly with each other.

Send the email to the desired recipient. Voilà!