Q.&A.: Hitting the Limit for Picasa Web Albums May 8, 2012, 6:59 am How much free online storage do you get with Picasa Web albums when you upload pictures from Picasa for Windows? What happens if you go over the limit? Google offers free online storage for several of its products and services, but the amount of server space you get varies. While Gmail users get 10 gigabytes for storing their messages and file attachments and Google Drive users get 5 gigabytes Picasa Web Album users only get 1 gigabyte of free storage. Googe+ users get unlimited storage for photos uploaded to the social-networking site, but images are automatically resized to 2,048 by 2,048 pixels. But while that single gigabyte of picture space seems skimpy compared to what other Google services receive, Google states that photos under certain file sizes do not count toward the total. If you are not a Google+ member, photos smaller than 800 pixels by 800 pixels that you upload to your Picasa Web Albums will not count toward your 1-gigabyte total. If you upload a lot of high-resolution photos from the Picasa program to your Web albums and blow past your gigabyte limit, any new pictures added are automatically resized down to a resolution of 800 pixels on the longest side. You can still see all your pictures in the Web albums, but the resized copies of the images there may not be at a resolution high enough to download and make good-quality photo prints. For some people, photos at a resolution of 800 by 800 pixels are fine for sharing online. If you want to use the Picasa Web service to store high-resolution copies of your photos for backup or printing, you can always rent more server space for Google. Prices start at $2.49 a month for 25 gigabytes of storage and go up from there; see Google's price list for other plans and more information.