is there anyway to import picasa web albums' photos to photostream?

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is there anyway to import picasa web albums' photos to photostream?

I need to organize my photos somehow and I guess I'm going with Apple due to 48,000 songs in iTunes. Google Music sucked. I have a *hitload of photos on Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Windows, FB, who knows where else, I'm not even sure I know. Anyone have a good idea how to get started organizing them in one place so I don't pay storage fees to more than one outfit. I like Picasa Web Albums better than Photostream I'm not even sure I undestand photostream but I have way to much music in iTunes for Google Music and I'm not going to mess with that. One of you smart folks help me out a little?

Thanks!

iPhone 4S, Windows 7, just want all my photos in one plac

Posted on Feb 5, 2012 10:39 AM

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Nealski

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Feb 5, 2012 10:42 AM in response to cgc4200

Photostream is a photo syncing service--not a photo sharing service. If you want photo sharing, you might take a look at zangzing.com. It's a pretty good photo upload and sharing service with a free account for under 2GB storage. There are costs associated with anything over 2GB.

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Nealski

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Feb 5, 2012 10:43 AM in response to cgc4200

...and you can import your Picasa photos directly to ZangZing. Easy!

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Feb 5, 2012 11:06 AM in response to Nealski

Thanks for that info. We don't really share the photos so much as store them. We don't want to lose them as we don't have albums like our parents did we only have digital photos. Does Apple have a service for this? I take it photostream is more for linking up your phone with you laptop? This whole photo organizing thing is taking up too much of my time. I want to snap the photo with iphone and know that it will forever be stored somewhere I can get to without much trouble.....What is the best service for that...???? Thanks!!!!!

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Nealski

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Feb 5, 2012 12:17 PM in response to cgc4200

One thing you can do with iCloud and PhotoStream is this: Once your iCloud account is se up, you can turn on PhotoStream on your iPhone and your Lion-based Mac or Vista/Windows-based PC. Then you can automatically download the photos to your machine when you open iPhoto (or whatever the PC version is). iCloud stores the latest 1000 photos, so you have to periodically sync it with your computer (or download through a cable connection to the computer if you have a pre-Lion or pre-Vista OS).

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Nealski

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Feb 9, 2012 8:18 PM in response to cgc4200

Just stumbled onto what may be exactly what you are looking for. It's called Quickshot with Dropbox. You take your photos with the app on your phone, and it uploads the photo direct to your Drop Box. Very cool if it works as advertised.

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