Picasa Tagging & Download

March 22, 2007 11:31 AM

Two Picasa2 Questions: (1) Is there any way to tell what tags have been attached to a particular photo? (2) Is there any way to download an entire Web album to a particular folder? (The "Save Imported Pictures In" option doesn't seem to work.)

I did various searches trying to turn up the answers to these questions with no luck; my apologies if I'm an idiot and overlooked the answer.

posted by srt19170 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Picasa is pretty limited in what bulk operations it's going to allow you to do, I've found.

I've been railing at the developers for nearly a year, now, to implement bulk synchronization with the web folders and offline storage, but they just don't hear me, I guess.

There are Google support groups dedicated to the product, so you may have more success there.
posted by thanotopsis at 12:41 PM on March 22, 2007

(1) Is there any way to tell what tags have been attached to a particular photo?

Select the photo, then select View -> Keywords. That will bring up the dialog to allow you to edit the tags for that image.

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Select the photo and either right-click and choose properties or select the photo and hit Alt + Enter to open the picture's Properties dialog. The property for IPTC Keyword(s) will list an tags for that photo.

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You can actually open the photo up in a raw text editor and see the keywords right towards the beginning of the file, but that's not very user-friendly.

Can't help you with the second question, hopefully someone else can step in on that one.
posted by Lokheed at 12:47 PM on March 22, 2007

I too wish Picasa would implement sync between Web Albums and the local library. Mine have become so out-of-sync it's not even funny.

Another trick for tags, use the shortcut. Select a photo or group of photos, even a folder, and hit Ctrl-K
posted by afx114 at 2:02 PM on March 22, 2007

Response by poster: I'm a dummy. My question was really "Is there any way to tell what *albums* a photo is in?" I forgot that Picasa has both keywords *and* albums.

At any rate, according to the Google Support Groups, the answer is "no". Sigh.
posted by srt19170 at 11:47 AM on March 23, 2007