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Google Photos instead of PB - troubleshooting

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  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: NJ
Google Photos instead of PB - troubleshooting
Posted by JMart on Sunday, July 2, 2017 7:42 PM

I need to "buy a vowel" here and figure out the missing step... anyone figured this out?

I take a pic with my cell phone, which is automatically "seen" by the Google Photos app. I then open the app in my phone and add the new pics to an existing album or create a new album. 

I have a GMAIL email account (free), so the pics are automatically backed up to my Google drive (cloud). I right click on the image (in Google drive), and click on "shareable link", which generates a link that is automatiicaly copied into the clipboard.

I then click on the INSERT IMAGE icon above and paste the link on "SOURCE".. and keep getting this tiny box.... if you click it, the picture is there..     

Any hints??

 

 

 

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: NJ
Posted by JMart on Sunday, July 2, 2017 8:56 PM

Finally figured this out.... took me 2+ hrs  Angry

If you go to GOOGLE DRIVE there is a GOOGLE PHOTOS tab that lets you access your pictures and generate the shareable URL link. That is the one that does NOT work for me, kept getting that little box..

However, if you go yo GOOGLE PHOTOS directly (photos.google.com) you basically see the same pics, etc. BUT now you can click one the picture to open it, then RIGHT click and you get the Holy Grail choice of "COPY IMAGE ADDRESS"

Then you can CTRL-V (paste) that into the INSERT IMAGE button above and...

 

 

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, July 2, 2017 9:57 PM

The photo does not show... just a gray circle with a horizontal white bar...

 

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