Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Blogger Blogs Too Google Photos: Adding Images To Your Blog

The new Google Photos offers unlimited gratis uploads of "High Quality" images of upwardly to 16MP. You tin add together images from Google Photos to your Blogger spider web log posts, only they may role to a greater extent than or less of your Google Account's storage.
Having trouble?
  • You must endure signed into Blogger alongside the same e-mail yous role to sign inwards to Google Photos or Picasa Web Albums 
  • It may likewise endure necessary to enable your browser to convey third political party cookies.
  • Extensions may interfere alongside inserting images, specially those similar AdBlock, NoScript or Ghostery
Read on for detailed instructions as well as data virtually inserting images inwards your Blogger spider web log posts.


Insert an epitome into a Blogger spider web log post


When yous are creating a novel spider web log post, or editing an quondam one, yous tin easily insert an image:

1. Click the Insert Image icon at the hap of the spider web log post editor



2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 box volition opened upwardly that volition permit yous select the source of the image


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There are six options:

  • Upload : Upload an epitome from your computer
  • From this blog: Add an epitome already uploaded to a previous post
  • From Picasa spider web albums: Add an epitome from i of your Google Account's photograph albums. This volition present albums inwards Google Photos, Google+ Photos as well as Picasa Web Albums.
  • From your phone: Images uploaded to Google Photos yesteryear auto-backup or uploaded to Google Photos directly
  • From your webcam: Take a photograph using your blog's webcam
  • From a URL: Add an epitome that is already online.


Some of these options volition role your existing Google Account storage.


Upload an image: add together an epitome from your computer


To insert an epitome from your figurer select Upload, thence click the "Choose files" push clit to select i or to a greater extent than photos or pictures.

Will the epitome count towards your storage?

Images smaller than 2048x2048 pixels volition non count towards your storage.

If the selection to upload images at amount size is not selected inwards yous Google+ settings, larger images volition endure reduced to no larger than 2048 pixels on a side.

Check your Google+ Photos Settings:

1. Sign inwards to Google+ alongside the same e-mail yous role to sign inwards to Blogger

2. Click Settings inwards the left card or opened upwardly plus.google.com/settings

3. Scroll downwards to the Photos section



4. Make certain "Upload my photos at amount size" is not selected

Note that this is non the same every bit your Google Photos settings (photos.google.com/settings)


Add an epitome "From your phone": Images uploaded through Google Photos as well as Google+ auto-backup




To add together photos uploaded through Google Photos or the quondam Google+ Photos auto-backup, select the selection to insert an epitome From your phone.

The photos yous tin select from include:

  • Images uploaded direct to Google Photos at photos.google.com 
  • Images uploaded through auto-backup to Google Photos or Google+ Photos
Photos non included:
  • Images uploaded to your Blogger spider web log (instead select From this blog or Picasa spider web albums)
  • Images from Hangouts chats (instead select Picasa spider web albums)
  • Images from Google+ Photos from posts (instead select Picasa spider web albums)
Note that photos are grouped yesteryear the engagement the photograph was taken or epitome was created not yesteryear the engagement the epitome was uploaded. You may hit got to scroll downwards to honour older photos.


Will the epitome count towards your storage?

When the epitome is inserted, it is copied to your Blogger blog's special album at the same pixel dimensions every bit the master copy image. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 4160×3120 pixel epitome auto-backed upwardly through Google Photos volition endure added every bit a 4160x3120 pixel epitome to your Blogger blog's special album, fifty-fifty though it volition non display that large on your blog

Only images 2048x2048 or smaller are "free" when uploaded via Blogger, thence it is probable that larger images volition count towards your Google Account storage, fifty-fifty inwards lightbox view.

What's the alternative? Add your Google Photos epitome From a URL

Add an epitome From a URL: Google Photos or other online images



You tin add together an epitome to your spider web log from whatever online source - including Google Photos - if yous tin honour the URL of the image.

The limitation is that if the master copy epitome is deleted, or the URL changes, the epitome volition disappear from your blog.

Find the URL of an epitome uploaded to Google Photos

The URL yous role must endure of the epitome itself, as well as non a webpage that is displaying the image. That way you cannot role the Google Photos shareable link

To acquire the epitome URL:

1. Sign inwards to Google Photos at photos.google.com

2. Find the photo yous desire to insert into a spider web log post as well as click on it thence it's the exclusively photograph on the page

3. Open the context card yesteryear ctrl-click or a right-click on the image

4. Select Copy epitome URL , which should re-create the image's URL to your clipboard

Menu opens volition vary, only should ever include "Copy Image URL"


Insert the epitome yesteryear URL

5. After copying the epitome URL, opened upwardly the Blogger spider web log post editor as well as click the Insert Image icon

6. Select MoreFrom a URL

7. Paste the epitome URL



Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 preview of the epitome volition display. It it looks correct, click the Add Selected button to insert the epitome inwards your spider web log post.

Note that the inserted epitome volition hit got the pixel dimensions of the viewed epitome inwards Google Photos, non the master copy upload dimensions. 

On my Chromebook, a Google Photos 4160 × 3120 epitome displays at  867 × 650 pixels.


Will the epitome count towards your storage?

Adding an epitome yesteryear URL should non count towards your storage limit. The inserted epitome is non copied to your Blogger blog's album. Instead your spider web log displays the epitome from Google Photos.

Insert epitome From Picasa Web Albums : Images inwards albums inwards Google Photos, Google+ Photos or Picasa Web Albums



The From Picasa Web Albums option lets yous add together an epitome from whatever album, as well as - fifty-fifty meliorate - lets yous search for images.

The photos yous tin select from include:
  • Images uploaded to i of your Blogger blogs 
  • Images from Hangouts chats 
  • Images from Google+ Photos from posts 
Photos non included:
    • Images uploaded direct to Google Photos at photos.google.com (instead select From your phone)
    • Images uploaded through auto-backup to Google Photos or Google+ Photos (instead select From your phone)
    Search for images yesteryear type

    To search for an image, select From Picasa Web Albums and use the search box at the hap of the covert to function inwards a keyword.  I've constitute it's a fleck hit-or-miss, only it tin endure really useful.

    Select the image(s) yous desire to add, thence click the Add Selected button.

    Will the epitome count towards your storage?

    The inserted image is not copied to your Blogger blog's special album so should non endure counted against your Google Account storage.

    Learn to a greater extent than virtually Blogger as well as photos inwards your Google Account

    Blogger Help Center:
    Google Photos Help Center:
    Find your Blogger blog's images inwards Google+ Photos or Picasa Web Albums

    Thanks to swain Blogger Top Contibutors  +Andy Page and +Adam Auster for intelligence as well as testing!

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