Google+ Will Come With Perks For Picasa Users

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The web is all hyped up on Google+ today and honestly, it seems pretty interesting. Of course, I say that without having actually used it yet so that thought may change in the future. That aside though, it looks like Picasa users will see a perk if they sign up for (and upload images using) Google+.

And interestingly enough, by finding this little Google+ tip, I also found out something about Picasa. Something that, as a Picasa user, you would have thought I would have known. Needless to say, Picasa apparently allows you to upload images up to 800 x 800 and not have them count towards your 1GB of free storage.

That being said, if you upload your images using Google+ you will be able to have images up to 2048 x 2048 in size. And to clarify that, the images up to 2048 x 2048 will not count towards your 1GB of free storage. In addition, you can also upload videos up to 15 minutes in length. Though, to clarify, the video size limit is the same regardless if you are a Google+ user of not.

And for those worrying about having to resize a bunch of images just to get free storage, worry not because they will automatically be re-sized. According to the Picasa Web Albums article;

All photos uploaded in Google+ will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge) and won’t count towards your free storage quota.

All photos uploaded  to Picasa Web Albums over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload to Picasa Web larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge).

With that, it looks like I found another reason to be excited about using Google+. After all, I have already been uploading images to Picasa at 1600 (wide) and have been satisfied with the viewing quality.