The reason this subject came up is because of Picasa and Google+. I told you awhile ago that Picasa, where our Blogger images are stored, wouldn't count any pictures towards your storage limit if they were 800x800 or smaller. The only problem now is that Picasa has been absorbed by Google+, so I began to wonder if maybe those rules had been changed. That lead me to investigate this little question, and I found that indeed the rules have changed.
The old rule of 800x800 is still in fact the same, but there is an add-on rule if you have become a member of Google+. If you have joined Google+ then you can use pictures that are 2048x2048 in size or smaller, and they won't count towards you storage limit. That means you can upload an unlimited amount of 2048x2048 sized pictures, or smaller.
Now before anybody leaves a comment telling me that I'm wrong about all of this, I'll give you the link from Google that tells about the whole thing. I urge all of you who use Blogger to read it to learn more. Here you go:
http://support.google.com/picasa/answer/1224181
I'm going to start using larger pictures while watching my storage size closely, and I'll give you a small update in about a week. Who knows? Maybe I got this all wrong. I doubt it though.
I'd also advise anyone who wants to take advantage of this larger size to join Google+. I don't know what any of you non-Blogger bloggers use to store your pictures, but you can use Google+ too, with the same advantages.
I just thought I'd share this with all of you just in case you might be interested in my findings. Even if you don't care about any of this then you have a pretty picture to look at. Two for one! Let me know what you think in the comments section. I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
I like your picture--very pretty! I really don't worry about the picture storage thing but it's nice to know about.
ReplyDeleteThe good thing is that the way it is now set up, you'll never have to to worry about it.
DeleteThanks, Ratty! Unfortunately, because of a stupid mistake long ago, I have two google accounts. The one I'm on G+ with is not the one that MQD is on, and I hate to have two personnas on G+. It's maddening that Google won't combine the accounts for me. But I'm keeping my pictures smaller anyway.
ReplyDeleteGoogle did something similar to me a couple of times. After I wrote this post, I've decided to use Google+ to store the pictures that are now on my hard drive. I can get them whenever I want to write a post with one. Keeping the smaller pictures might be a better way to go for faster loading posts anyway.
DeleteI make 600 pixels the max for faster downloads. I usually crop and often process for my readers' sake.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to figure out a happy medium of size and load speed so that it can all end up well. I may end up using the smaller pictures again.
DeleteOn our laptop, the photo doesn't look any bigger (I think it resizes for the screen), but it takes longer to download. It is pretty, though!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I found out they only get to one size unless you middle click them. I may go back to the smaller size.
DeleteI never thought about photo storage--thanks for filling me in!
ReplyDeleteI read a few more details in there that said you'll never really have to think about it. The photos will begin to resize themselves if you ever hit your limit.
Deleteyey, thanks so much for the good news, now, I cna increase a little bit the size of my photos too. this is such a beautiful shot by the way, love the colors and the trees against the intense sky.
ReplyDeleteI got lucky when I took this picture. There were two days in a row when the sky looked like that.
DeleteI have joined google plus Ratty although I'm not really sure what it does so I am very happy to get this info. I have no idea what sizes my images were loaded up at but I know they weren't bigger than the new requirements so now I have no need to worry. Thanks but yes certainly keep us updated on your storage space!!
ReplyDeleteGoogle+ is kind of like Facebook. I just use it to store my pictures though.
DeleteThank you for your information.
ReplyDeleteI was rejected by Google+,but I never bother to know how to solve it.
The only requirement I know that Google+ wants is that you use your real name. Maybe they wanted that? I don't know how they would know if a person gave them a fake name anyway.
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