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Offline Athelstane57

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Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« on: 20 November 2023, 02:46:22 PM »
Dear friends,
I've got some pictures of a battle I would like to post.
Is there an easy way to include these in may post? Is there easy way to explain how you do it?
I typed "img]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zu2ycgNvzuB45H53Ss65uhd8TRabBPsj/view?usp=sharing[/img" 
With the [] around 'img' but nothing appeared.
Stephen
« Last Edit: 20 November 2023, 02:48:16 PM by Athelstane57 »

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Re: Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« Reply #1 on: 20 November 2023, 03:10:58 PM »
You need to make sure the album is shared. Once that's done, the fun begins...

In your browser in Google photos, click on the image you want, so it's the main one on the screen. Right click on that image and select "copy image link". Just copying the URL from the browser bar doesn't work >:(

The image url is the one you want to put between the image tags.

Once I've posted I usually check as an anonymous account, as if the image isn't shared it'll still show up for you, but not for anyone else.

However, the important thing is the image link url, not the browser bar one. I'm sure there's a good reason for it, but it still feels annoying. Posting from a tablet is worse, as the google photos app won't give the correct URL and I end up having to load a browser there as well  :(

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Re: Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« Reply #2 on: 20 November 2023, 03:34:06 PM »

Offline Athelstane57

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Re: Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« Reply #3 on: 20 November 2023, 03:35:19 PM »
Gosh, that was so easy, after you explained it!

 :-*

Regards,
Stephen

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Re: Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« Reply #4 on: 20 November 2023, 04:06:35 PM »
You're welcome.

I just don't understand why Google put the extra step in the process. I always forget it if I haven't posted a picture in a while.

Nice picture, looking forward to the rest of the battle report  :)

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Re: Sharing photos from Google Photos - help for a novice
« Reply #5 on: 20 November 2023, 05:15:05 PM »
zemjw,

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=143504.msg1831461#msg1831461

Possible only thanks to your kindness in sparing a few minutes to explain what to do.

(I haven't used the forum for a while, believe it or not I was downloading photos, compressing them,downloading these and then trying to add them as attachments!!!)

 

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