Wild quilting and posting photos

I've been practicing my free motion quilting skills lately

before tackling some bigger quilts.

I signed up for Christina Cameli's Wild Quilting class on Craftsy

and so far I've finished one lesson.

I'm good at circular shapes and feathers

and I'm getting back into the right balance between 

the foot on the pedal and moving my hands.

I have a technical question though.

I've been using Picasa to edit photos and reduce their size.

Google is no longer supporting Picasa

and now my default is using Google photos.

Still not a fan, especially since I can't figure out how to resize photos

so they're easier to upload onto a blog.

What are the rest of you doing?

How do you work the connections between Blogger and Google photos?