Picasa is a great product from Google for locating, organizing, editing, adding effects, printing, emailing, and uploading photos. I pretty much use Picasa for all of these features, but the one I really like is the web albums. It comes installed with 6 templates, but if you want to add some flare to your albums Paul van Roekel has created 19 free templates, both flash and HTML.

They’re very simple to install you just download, unzip, and place in C:\Program Files\Picasa2\web\templates. Restart Picasa and they are now available to be used. Creating the web albums are just as easy, select the photos you want, go to Folder -> Export as HTML Page…, select the size you want to use (I usually use 640px), the title of the page, and the output destination. Then choose your template and finish!

Paul van Roekel’s Templates
Cool Fullscreen
Tiltviewer
Moonslide Reflections
ImageFlow
PicLens
3D Carousel
Page Flip
Photo Stack
JW Image Rotator
Polaroid Gallery
Jet Photo
Stopdesign
Lightbox
Photoplayer
Thickbox
XFade
Simple Scroller
Highslide

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