Sunday, January 20, 2019

Adding images "from
Google Album Archive"

toolbar > insert image > Add Images > From Google Album Archive

The top row of "From Google Album Archive," showing four albums
Partial view. Each box is an album. Click to enlarge.

"From Google Album Archive" is one of six ways to add images to your blog from "Add Images." (You get "Add images" when you click the Insert Image tool in Blogger's editing window.)

Update: The user interface has changed, so my screen shots and step-by-steps are no longer 100% valid. This option is now a sub option under "Blogger."

The top row in this view shows four of the albums in my album archive, including one for this blog.

From here, you can open any album and scroll through it to find an image to add to your blog post or page.

Animation showing how clicking the Insert image icon invokes the Ad Images panel
Clicl on the Insert Image icon to invoke the Add Images pane.

The Album Archive

The Album Archive is where Blogger hosts the images you upload into your blog. If you delete an image from the archive, you will leave an ugly hole in any blog that uses the image.

Closely related is "from this blog," which shows everything in your blog's folder in the archive. "From the archive" gives you access to all your archive photos in all of your albums.

Sorting and Searching Problems

Like "from this blog," this option sorts images according to a mysterious system known only to Google. The date the image was added seems to be a factor, but not the only one. This makes finding things difficult.

This option also has a search feature, something that the actual album archive lacks. Unfortunately, the search does not work very well.

There's no good way to find images in the archive, but there ought to be.

If you want to add a photo you haven't used before, use "Upload."

5 comments:

  1. @Adam
    Oh! So simply and sweetly shared,
    1) Are Google+ photos/pictures also in Google AlbumArchive?
    2) Can the duplicate images be removed from Google Album Archives?
    Thanks with regards

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    1. 1) Not usually
      2) If you do, they will leave an ugly hole in your blog. But sure.

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  2. By the by, please, which of the following method is correct ?
    While a new post, is it by compose mode or html mode?
    Thanks again and regards
    p. s.
    Be by here or by separate post, as you do, please

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    1. 3) Both can be correct, depending on what you want to do. That is why both are available

      I usually work in Compose but use HTML to tweak the code.

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