Google Operating System blog tells:
Picasa Web Albums offers more free storage if you are a Google+ user. According to Picasa Web’s help center, “photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage”. If you upload photos from Google+, they’re automatically resized to 2048 pixels on their longest edge, so they don’t use the 1 GB of free storage that’s available in Picasa Web Albums.
For those of you not on Google+ yet, only pictures up to 800×800 pixels won’t count up on your storage. You really should let me know your email address and I’ll send you an invite.
While picasa stuff is cool, it seems that Google+ is out of capacity for the past few days, since my invites didn’t work for few people already, complaining that Google+ is currently over capacity.
Hopefully will work again soon.
There are quite a few changes being published to Google+ in the last few days. I think the devteam got their feedback and now want to fix a few things before they add more users.