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[FastEddieB]

For many years I’ve been using Flickr to upload photos and then grab links from there to post images to forums. I’m using Safari on both Mac and iPad.

When I went to do that yesterday, I was informed I had hit a 1,000 upload limit, and would have to upgrade to Flickr Pro to continue, at about $5.50 a month billed annually. I tried deleting a bunch of photos from Flickr, but apparently that doesn’t affect my total upload count.

I wonder if there are other options. I have Google photos, but when I copy a link from there and paste it between “img” tags it doesn’t seem to work. I know on this site I can just copy from my Photos library and post here, as below. That doesn’t work on most of the other sites I frequent.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[Hang 4]

Do you have icloud? There's an option for a shareable folder.

 

[eman1200]

@FastEddieB are the images you have on your google drive shared? they must be shared with 'anyone with the link'. then, grab the shareable link for pic and pull the image id and copy/paste it over the xxxxx's in the link below:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=xxxxxxxxxx

then paste that link in between the img tags

 

[FastEddieB]

Do you have icloud? There's an option for a shareable folder.

Yes, I do. Never used it much.

Grabbed the link to a photo in iCloud, pasted it between “img” tags, and nothing

 

[FastEddieB]

@FastEddieB are the images you have on your google drive shared? they must be shared with 'anyone with the link'. then, grab the shareable link for pic and pull the image id and copy/paste it over the xxxxx's in the link below:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=xxxxxxxxxx

then paste that link in between the img tags

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=iRiHcDBkdh7gdtQSA

New photo · Sunday, Dec 15, 2024

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Here’s what I tried:

 

[eman1200]

did you share the image? did you copy/paste the entire image id correctly?

 

[midlifeflyer]

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=iRiHcDBkdh7gdtQSA

New photo · Sunday, Dec 15, 2024

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photos.app.goo.gl

Here’s what I tried:

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I'm not having your issue. This is the URL

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t6EkU9P4sZVJaUyn7

and this is the photo.

New photo · Sunday, Oct 6, 2024

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[midlifeflyer]

...although I prefer sharing photos by simple comping the image and pasting it here.

 

[eman1200]

...although I prefer sharing photos by simple comping the image and pasting it here.

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'copy/paste', why u gotta make things so difficult?

 

[FastEddieB]

I'm not having your issue. This is the URL

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t6EkU9P4sZVJaUyn7

and this is the photo.

New photo · Sunday, Oct 6, 2024

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I too get that “New item by…”, not a properly inserted image.

Copy/paste is seamless here, but not on other sites.

 

[midlifeflyer]

Copy/paste is seamless here, but not on other sites.

Some yes, some no. If the site doesn't allow pasting an image, I usually just save the picture to my device and upload it from there.

 

[Piperonca]

 

[FastEddieB]

eman1200 messaged me a link to a site to convert a Ggogle Photo link to an embeddable link.

A little convoluted, but seems to work!

Here’s that link: https://www.labnol.org/embed/google/photos/

 

[FastEddieB]

Actually, not convoluted at all - about the same number of steps as needed in Flickr. I’ll just have to modify my workflow.

It doesn’t seem to provide a “resize” option, but in my first experiment above it seemed to size properly for the forum.

 

[midlifeflyer]

eman1200 messaged me a link to a site to convert a Ggogle Photo link to an embeddable link.



A little convoluted, but seems to work!

Here’s that link: https://www.labnol.org/embed/google/photos/

Seems pretty straightforward.