Tutorial - how to quickly add photos to your blogger posts

Finally, it's here. The tutorial 3 of you have been waiting for :)

How to quickly add loads of pics into your blogger posts. This only makes time sense if you like lots of pics in your posts like I do :)

Some background and things you need to do first: 

1. Download Picasa (free google thing to sort out your pics)
2. Get an email address so you can post to your blog from email.

Here's how you do number 2 above:

1. Go to your dashboard
2. Click on settings and then on mobile and email 
3. Under the email section, choose a word to customise your blogger email address
4. Save this email address somewhere 
5. Click the little button next to Save emails as draft post
6. Click save settings

Right, you're sorted.

Moving on.


Here is the brilliant part - when you email pics from Picasa, it automatically compresses them for you. Genius!

I no longer have to use Faststone Resizer (which is also brilliant).

Right click on ANY pic you want to blog, open with, Picasa

Click on Edit in Picasa

Click Back to Library on the top left

All your pics will appear like this - I like to save things in folders...

Either control plus click to highlight all the pics (I like this) or if they're in multiple folders, click the little green pushpin on the bottom left of the screen to hold that selection and then find your other folder, highlight and click the green pushpin again

Then click File and Email

I use Microsoft Outlook so I click that button

This beautiful screen appears with all your pics neatly compressed (my originals were 4 MB each) and it conveniently tells you how many you have - genius! Put in your email address that you saved right in the beginning, I like to put a subject so I'm clear and SEND.

Then in Blogger, all you do is go to your drafts, go find this one, open and type in between the pics or whereever you feel like. You may have to rearrange the order but they're all there.

I LOVE IT!

This tip has sped up my blogging so much. As you can see, I now put many more pics in my posts because it's not such a huge schlep to upload them.

Here's to seeing lots of your pics :)

So how did I do on my first tutorial with screenshots? I feel quite accomplished :)

Are you going to use it?