protip: upload to blogger with minimal pain

The initial reaction to knowing your blog host is shutting down may vary from mild sadness to the extreme stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression to acceptance. This blog is not about counselling you on how to get over the stages but to help you make a less painful transition. I'm talking about moving your ton of  precious photos from one dying blog like Multiply to Blogger. It may also be read as "How to upload your 5Gb of vanity shots from your camera to Blogger painlessly."

Before we get to the meat of the matter, I have made a few assumptions to make this blog less wordy and more picture-y (that's how I roll)

• You've already downloaded your media from your old and dying blog *cough *MULTIPLY
• You have a google account including the following
• google drive
• google plus
• blogger
• You don't trust Picasa to do the uploads for you
• You're not a grammar nazi or something related to it

To begin:

STEP 1 - Organize your photos by folder

Why? You'll thank me later

STEP 2 - Copy your photos to Google Drive and allow to simmer and sync.

At this moment, you can continue whatever you're doing. If you're not even doing anything, try to ponder about the purpose of life instead. 

STEP 3 - Open you Google Plus account and go to photos

STEP 3 - Click share button beside your pretty smug and select the photos icon > From Google Drive

STEP 4 - Select which folder you want to upload to Blogger. You can thank me now.

STEP 5 - You can see that the chosen album is now available in Google+. Almost done.

STEP 6 - Go to Blogger. When inserting an image > Select a File > From Picasa Web Albums. 

STEP 7 - BAM! you're done! Pat yourself in the back for making this far.

The advantage of doing this method is that your photos are available to any device where you have Google drive and you have complete control to which photos you want published without the pain of uploading and waiting later.

I hope you found this post useful and suitable to your needs. Until the next post. Bye!