Please educate me.

youve probably not forgotten, i think theyve changed it and made it a lot harder for some reason. i suffered with this a while ago and needed my IT whizz brother to help me out.

apparently the only way we can find success at doing this, is to open your photo up (click to make it large), right click the photo and ‘open in new tab’, put the long url in the address bar into bit.ly to create a shorter url, then paste this url between the img tags.

how complicateds that???

Urghhh… really? Thought I was going mad! Cheers Punky.

Edit: Indeed it works 🙂 Yuo can also use https://goo.gl/ to shorten the original url.

On a PC:
Select the photo (so it has a blue tick in the top left hand corner)
Select the share icon at the top of the screen (should be in a the blue banner that appeared after selecting the photo)
Click on the ‘Click shareable link’
Copy the link created.

Also works when you select multiple images.

In the iPhone app:
Select the picture so that the blue tick appears.
Select the share icon (like a box with an arrow pointing upwards)
Scroll across until the Copy Link option is shown and select.

sharkbait – the long urls are a real PITA.

However, the same images still have reasonable length urls allocated to them in picasaweb! Go figure!

So when Im hotlinking for thread pics, I still got to the picasaweb portal rather than Photos. Sometimes google can act the dumbest corporation in spite of all the obviously smart people there.

The SHareable link is only a link, it isnt the image url.

Edit: Indeed it works Yuo can also use https://goo.gl/ to shorten the original url.

i wouldnt be too sure. i tried this in one of my posts a few weeks ago, and it showed the pic ok, but….. an hour or so later it couldnt be viewed. we couldnt work out why, but it seems that definitely doesnt happen with bit.ly

e.g.

This is the url through photos:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6cErWhf1YpiuHpW139ivN3azPpD4iRunhzbhJBTu-AyzsM0uf0dyF7ndKaJGaRPuDv8mVxZOnigL701X7_HYGMPU1987rspV6w9xqsEsAezX4ZP4NXkvEnsTQlhhm2RVQyLcQGRbI6l-YH7ZfmCvMAXDpc17PidfNziP5owDbsMF30bm-HAZXgXNZsJsY4Gxl6hUQwtHw0W2w9yeB7vrEdG6MiaX0SFm7QPAbmF9VCieCkrnvhhY1r98RAezAoENMlXA6R9jboaX7szzVItO9UlVhzG8STtcoESUxhoPe3ULrf6rLOT50JTH9-Ih6BM-YK4sd5OIX35fL1bw8k8t8-1tzuAKBnDBoaPNpVg8EHHabLRBrAnr1OmabAz2Xf7elSpRSJFZS119sPy54SP4hPw_WZNnzDMhrv7DIB8lAfyEfgCVy_O8eh2Zr7yxz9MZRLukfgAKPpvajoOw0XbQfEUYEq1rhuz8Ucn_hTAGqTnOMaxc1QnqC5WQ8iYFeCqbl9cac0PcSjQW0rci7SsWXwUJrAhHi7tGAJAaXK-J7Pg=w580-h326-no

It’s too long for STW:

This is the url through Picasaweb:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DhCmA_6MiFk/VgkFTCQ7VeI/AAAAAAAAPZg/OUBx7rWCxYg/s640-Ic42/IMG_20150928_090530.jpg

Which conveniently also has the sizing function (s640) which can be adapted (s800 or s400 etc)

bloody daft

Click on the ‘Click shareable link’
Copy the link created.

Nah that doesn’t work on here.

Daft but interesting Stoner. Nice buns BTW 🙂

The bitly approach isn’t actually too bad.

Daft but interesting Stoner

That accusation has followed me most of my life.

So when Im hotlinking for thread pics, I still got to the picasaweb portal rather than Photos. Sometimes google can act the dumbest corporation in spite of all the obviously smart people there.

I do this. It is indeed silly. They’ll probably kill the portal at some point soon. Will be a shame.

It works on some sites but STW seems to need JPEG or GIF suffix for it to work. As above I use picasaweb to get the link I need for stuff to work on here.

They’ll probably kill the portal at some point soon

possibly. But it was threatened that Google+ would kill picasa too, and we’ve weathered that particularly ridiculous storm. Before they pull the plug, Id like to think they’d implement a few more functions in Photos first (including hotlink/embedding options)

I struggled with this. Ended up sharing the google album to my G+ (which I never use). That album has proper JPEG links harvested by right clicking the image. It’s a PITA tho – nearly enough to make me go back to flickr.

interesting. lets have a go.

Have shared my “stuff” album from Photos via Google+ (*spits*)

got album within google+ (*spits*)

RHC, copy img url

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-DhCmA_6MiFk/VgkFTCQ7VeI/AAAAAAAAPac/vu_nIOsVC-g/w1520-h855-no/IMG_20150928_090530.jpg

So, can everyone see that? ^

Ta Da 🙂 Top Bunnage there as well Mark!

good. so it’s working. Really dont like going via google+, but it’s easier than picasaweb once the image is in my Stuff album.

My secret stash of Ceps that grow outside the school. I think people are starting to wonder what Im doing pacing up and down outside the school gates first thing int he morning…. 😳

Ohhhhhhh, that’s what they are (look like buns) 😳

Ohhhhhhh, that’s what they are (look like buns)

Boletus edulis

aka

Ceps

aka

“Penny Buns”. I thought you were correctly referring to them by their nickname!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis

*crosses fingers*…

doh!

where are you getting your img url from No8?

From here Stoner – https://goo.gl/photos/ioi42kfZEsE4Eg9fA
I’m trying to do so from my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with little success. It’s really bugging me but I’m determined to crack it!

“Penny Buns”. I thought you were correctly referring to them by their nickname!

Oh, er… yes I was actually
*cough*

The long url wont work:

so you should use https://goo.gl/ to make a short url such as:

“https://goo.gl/hPhCzv”

which gives

however, it may not last….

Oh great thanks Stoner. Really appreciate it.

Nah that doesn’t work on here.

Just tried it, and you’re right. That’s annoying.

Foiled again, dag nab it!