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Embedding Picasa web album photos into forum posts
It's amazing that Google, which offers easy to use programs such as Picasa, can make imbedding an image from a web album into a forum post so difficult.
Many who participate in photography forums embed images from their online photo galleries into posts. Typically it's a relatively simple process: right-click an image, copy the url and pastes it into a thread. That's it!
Not so easy with photos displayed in Picasa web albums, at least not at the time of the writing (Sept 2007). So, if you use web albums, here's what to do:
- Click on a photo in your web album that you wish to display.
- Click on the hyperlink "Link to this Photo" which is on the right-hand side of the page.
- Select the image size from the pop-up menu: the options are thumbnail, small, medium and large.
- click on and copy the URL "HTML to embed in website."
- Paste the URL into a forum post.
- Remove all text, including quotes, before the second http and after jpg.
Note: In some forums you'll need to place IMG tags around the cleaned up url:
[img]URL[/img]
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