Picasaweb, Google+ and link-to-photo

Its crap. They seem to be now inventing things like wheels but square not round. They no doubtlook nice but are impractical for many users. Brian

Following up - the only "solution" seems to be hit the photo's Share button, add my own email address and then pick up the URL from the email. Seems a faff...

Can everyone see this link? :

Can't see any way OTHER than delving into the source of the page, e.g.

You can SHARE it with others, but that assumes they're G+ users in one of your circles.

Only by cutting and pasting into the address box. It's broken by a line wrap.

I was caught out by the same thing: I had tested the one-picture system once, and later, I tried to do it for more, and it wouldn't work, I could only link to the whole album.

Your link above could be shortened by creating a tinyurl, that would make it manageable.

Thanks to everyone for confirming I'm not mad...

The main attraction for Google was Picasa as a way to organise stuff offline and then sync (ie when I am jacked into a gig link at work).

But they seem to have truely f**ked up PicasaWeb. As you noticed, it is optimised for G+ sharing and bugger all else.

And the URLs suck.

Been playing with Flickr and am trying dfo for linux as a picasa alternative

- unfortunately, seems to crash on trying to upload anything :(

View page source and try to hook out the pic/pop-up referrer - works sometimes. Does the old method still work if you log in with a different browser that doesn't know about your G+ account?

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Purely as a user, if I see a link to oics on Picasa I usually don't bother, I don't see why I should need to turn on javascript, referrer.logging, automatic redirection, probably flash too and use a secure connection just to view a few pics.

That is just me of course.

Just to have a public place to bung an image with a direct link to that image tinypic.com is probably the best.

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