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I'd love to move over to Picassa from Flickr, but the fact that every photo needs to be in an album is a deal breaker. I take one random photo and in order to upload it I need to put it in it's one, one-photo album? Or I can make a catch-all album that quickly becomes buried because it's my oldest? What a pain. If they just had some kind of "photo stream" I'd be all over it.

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After installing Picasa you can right click an image and choose "Upload to Web Albums..." where it will automatically upload the image in the background to an album called "Drop Box" which is the "Default album for newly uploaded photos.". Picasa will then automatically open your browser to said image.

Yeah, that's nice, but you still need to put it somewhere before you can share it.

Somewhere like... the internet? Or your hard drive?

Is the problem just that it's conceptually in a folder, instead of intermixed with all your other photos? There's no difference to the work-flow, it's one step in both setups.

I didn't know you could make that folder public just like any other. See my response above.

Aaah, that would explain it. Apologies!

I think I figured it out. Make your Drop Box a public album, then go into the album settings and check the box to make the album date the date of the latest upload. Now you have a place to put random photos that will bump to the front whenever there's something new in it!

Hmm.. if only the makers of Picassa made a way for you to show a Stream of photos, text, videos, links?

I'd like to have all my photos in one place, if possible. Having photos that can be put into albums on Picassa (with full resolution so people can make prints) and everything else on Google+ seems silly. I'd rather just not use Picassa and just put it all on Google+.

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