来源:http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1299/gmail-picasa-and-flickr
I'm a big fan of the Flickr photo sharing and publication service. It is an amazing web application that lets you present your photographs on the web. It uses a tagging system to allow you to easily categorize your photographs. One of the neatest features, is that you can also view photos from other people who use the service, and because of the tagging features, you can easily look for photographs from other people that share the same interests or tags.
But, I've always found it a bit tedious to upload images to the service. You can use Flickr's web based image upload tool or you can use their small Windows application to upload your images. Both methods are extremely inefficient especially if you have a lot of photos. The other problem is that if you use their free accounts, you can only upload 10MB worth of images every month. With my Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera, each photo I take is about 2MB in size. This means that I can only upload 5 high quality images per month. But I'm not really interested in uploading high quality images, so I resize my images before I upload. This means going into Fireworks, resizing, saving and uploading. Quite a few steps.
Flickr提供的几种上传方式,当执行批量上传时确实很方便,但是在单张上传时显得麻烦。而且免费的Flickr账号每个月只有10MB的限额,每次上传前都要用Firework去修改后,特别费时。
The third way you can get photos to your Flickr account is by using email. Enter Picasa and Gmail. Picasa is a great free photo management tool that lets you organize and perform simple edits and manipulations to your photos.
With the recent release of Picasa 2.0, you can now email directly from this great image management software. When you email from Picasa, you can tell the application to automatically resize your photos before sending them. So uploading to Flickr has become much easier.
Picasa是一个功能强大的图片管理软件,从Picasa发email时可以指定自动修改照片的尺寸。
Here are the steps:
- Login to your Flickr account. Near the bottom of the page click on the link that says Upload by Email 获取Flickr上传的邮件地址
- Copy the email address that is presented to you. This is a personalized email address that you can use to send photos to your Flickr account.
- Now, open Picasa and click on the Tools>Options… menu.设置Picasa email上传的图片尺寸
- On the Email tab, choose Use my GMail Account then set the picture size (using the slider) to whatever size you want. This is the size that Picasa will scale your image to before sending it.
- Click the OK button and you're ready to start sending images to Flickr.
- Click on the image that you want to upload then click on the Email button near the bottom of the Picasa application window.在Picasa中选中一张要上传的照片,在下方工具条中找到Email按钮
- Picasa will ask you to enter your GMail login details需要用Gmail账号登录,用于发送Email。
- In the To field, enter the email address that Flickr gave you.在Email收件人中填入Flickr提供的Email地址。
- Enter the title of the picture in the subject line. This is the title that Picasa will use when it displays your picture.
- Enter the description of the photo in the message area. This is the description that Picasa will use when it displays your picture.
- Finally, click the Send button and the photo is uploaded to Flickr.
The only limitation with this method is that you cannot tag the image. You will need to login to Flickr to do that.
Happy uploading, and if you want to check out my photos, you can find my photo-stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimrutherford/
补充:登陆Flickr账号后访问http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/,可获取自己独有的Flickr email账号地址。