Sharing from Google Photos:
https://photos.google.com/
Warning: Google does not make it easy to share photos to message boards and is by far the most difficult service to use. Read and fellow the steps below for you best chance to make Google work. Other services are much simpler and help build good image sharing links.
1. Go to Google Photos on the Web:
https://photos.google.com/
2. Browser to the photo you want to share.
a.) Check that the photo have been shared, create a link if it has not:
https://support.google.com/photos/answe ... ic=6128855
3. Click on that photo to view is full screen in your browser window.
--> there should be some white icons on the top left, you may need to mouse over the picture to get them to display. Icons are: Share, Edit, Zoom, Favorite, Trash
IGNORE THE SHARE ICON in the upper right -- its does not work for our purpose
Instead:
4.
Right-click on the image to pull up a web browser dialogue box.
5. Select "
Copy image address " or "
Copy image location" (each web browser is different) -- this copies the direct URL to the image
--> Go back to the birding forums
6.
Paste that image address into the forum posting. Should look like this gigantic link:
https://l3.googleusercontent.com/dHpH49HJeJU6as3EcYlmzs8toLLKkfTmvVJdA7VumlxGQdSVJegBtFni7w5LVVJ_9zbsq2eP4yUFwzpAfQGHkFCAfC7dJArsK6FDsZMukTg1yESA_luWjKCl22DoNF-oV306fB8AfQKtcmbxyuxMA3xGoUXMHGf6L1q9XU39Rc-ZMS9S4O6kh-Nlxtm2YXh6OWiVfztTYQGAGMo3DL-TUSqZuDb5fvuoqoUxPTc-NaIV-6tLOjVWODEJj6H-qVXoyNMYZfkBF3oAgkwjaq4wIYgzXVmmOcJjKdJ5_vS0Sq7kzY9cTHb-NZ87IOOvM_znFNl280yh4cLLmKSTAGGl660CZnxvPaaJci2qiXnfbm7HWKR1oN4ZfrkIWs8as-iX1MUKHRjXjTjhXgcQuhEQE8uKi3j-tSUsX3sE06Xq-udjwpfKXvOl9JnIlhwpEpyNEZqBX5_zEhnyLUN0Uqo1AAmEzTEuyTNJ7TNf0mVe7_PeJXk9-pumi0a2U60l2W3LK1TUlU5scv_ZuO75hxrFvOSscJRuambVceLlK-QSMgwLQ8pOD25VRRkoYbi_E5sZOWLqutmUryoAySHXG7wM-uzP4xRrO_8NkXivFebZP2NkRW8vSBNjk_as8_SgmU_J2Vx8sEs2aRAe5hvfR-HB-L5Cm0qh-HUZKAwsbzfVkvHLLByQy2bTo9tuPkvRyWlM=w1454-h969-no?authuser=0
7. Now, the important part, highlight the whole link and then go up into the toolbar as press the
picture icon.
This wraps the link in BB code and looks like this {img}...Giant Google URL ...{/img }
-- Make sure there are no spaces in your URL!
8. Submit/Preview and you should have an image show up:
Troubleshooting Google Shared Photos
Google Photos has privacy settings turned on by default and will not share your photo publicly until you create a share link for the photo.
If you forget to do this, the image looks list a grey "do not enter" blank image.
Google Chrome extension to create BBCode links
A developer has created an extension that creates embeddable image links for google photos and places them on the clipboard. Supports direct image links and BBCode snippets.
Visit Chrome Extension page
--This method allows you the skip the BB code step as the "Copy image address" automatically adds the BBCode part. Simple use the "Copy image address-->BBCode image snippit"
Copy and Paste into the post and your image should show up.