How to post pictures from Google Photos
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 09:45
I use Google Photos to store and manage most of my photos, but it's not obvious how to insert images from there into a forum posting without exposing your Google account and all the other photos in it. Then I ran across this article which described a somewhat difficult method, but led me to an easier way.
The trick is that the image must be in a shared album, otherwise people who are not logged into Google as you will not be able to see it. Do the following (best on a PC):
The bbcode for that is:
The trick is that the image must be in a shared album, otherwise people who are not logged into Google as you will not be able to see it. Do the following (best on a PC):
- Put the photo into a shared album in Google. Albums are good anyway to keep things organized. Make sure the album is marked as shared; if not go to its Options to turn on sharing (and make sure Link Sharing is enabled).
- Go to the shared album and click the photo to open it as a single photo. You should then see a left-arrow in the top left corner of the page.
- (Optional) Resize the browser window so the photo is the size that you want for the web site.
- Right click on the photo and select Copy Image Location or similar, depending on your browser. If your device has a touch screen and no mouse, try long-press instead of right click (works for me with Firefox but not Chrome).
- In your forum posting click the Insert Image icon and then Ctrl-V (press the Ctrl and V keys together on your keyboard) to paste in the URL that you copied above. It will be very long! Or with a tablet/phone, long-press, position the cursor and then Paste.
- (Optional) If you want to specify the image size numerically, look at the end of the URL that you pasted in, and change the image size width/height values after “w” and/or “h” before the “-no”. For example change "=w1317-h741-no" to "=w800-no" (you can omit width or height).
The bbcode for that is:
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