How to Organize by Year in Picasa

You can sort pictures by when they were created or changed in Picasa.

Picasa is a free application for your computer and an online service from Google for working with photos. When you use Picasa to manage your photos, you might want to browse through them according to the year you took them, instead of by their name or size. For example, if while using the desktop Picasa application, you want to see pictures that you took during vacations over the years, you organize the images by date. Then you can quickly scan for the period you take your vacation each year. You can sort Picasa Web albums by the album date or the date you uploaded them.

Instructions

Picasa Web Albums

1. Launch your Web browser.

2. Go to the Picasa website (picasaweb.google.com) and then log in to your Picasa account.

3. Click the "Sort By" pull-down menu at the top of the page, and then click "Album Date" or "Upload Date" to sort your albums.

4. Click a photo album to see thumbnails of its photos. Click the "Sort Photos By" pull-down menu, and then click "Date (Oldest First" or "Date (Newest First)" option.

Desktop Picasa Application

1. Launch the Picasa application on your computer.

2. Click the "View" menu and then click "Folder View."

3. Click "Creation Date" to sort folders by the date they were made, or click "Recent Changes" to sort photos by the dates you made changes to them. You can also click the pull-down arrow menu, in the button bar above the folder list in the left pane of the Picasa application window, and then click a sorting option.

References

• Picasa Help: Sorting Photos

Resources

• Picasa Web Albums: Free Photos Sharing from Google