Importing wide or tall images into Blogger using Picasa

Well, thanks to Simon of Days on the Claise, I've figured out a way to post photos that are larger than 1600 pixels wide or tall Simon suggested uploading large photos to Dropbox and then importing them into blogger using their URL (web address) to identify them. I've tried that it works but not perfectly for me. The image on the main blog page comes in at its full size and I can't figure out how to size it down to fit the column width. It runs off the page. There's probably something I don't understand.

So instead of using Dropbox, I tried uploading a large photo (the one below) directly into Picasa a.k.a. Google Photos and then importing it from there. It works! When I upload photos directly into Blogger, they also go automatically into my Picasa albums anyway. So this way I have to do that step manually, but for the occasional large image, it will be worth the trouble. Here's an example.

The photo above, by the way, is a stitched-together composite image I made from four smaller photos that I took from the top of the Tour Montparnasse in April 2002, when Walt and I were in Paris on vacation. It shows the Jardin des Tuileries all the way from the Place de la Concorde on the left to the western end of the Louvre complexon the right. The quality of the image is pretty good, considering the age of the image. I took the photos with a year-2000-vintage Canon camera that had a long zoom.

If you click on the picture above or below with your mouse, it will open in a larger size. Then click again when you see the little magnifying glass hovering over the image. That will open the photo at full size (4,000 pixels wide, in this case) and then you'ĺl need to scroll horizontally and also maybe vertically, using the scroll bars at the edges of the screen or the wheel on your mouse (Windows). I haven't tried all that on a tablet, so I'm not sure what you might need to do.

Here's another very wide image (3000 pixels) below. Callie and I were just setting out on our walk in the vineyard Sunday morning when I took it. I learned that my Lumix camera can take panoramic photos using a method I was unfamiliar with. You just put the camera in panorama mode, aim, push the shutter button, and then pan manually to take in the scene you want to capture. And that gives you a panorama like the one just above.