Modern image manager debuts

Google stashes the images you upload into your blog in the Album Archive, their online home that is separate from Google Photos.

Now, Google has written a new back end for those images, available today at www.blogger.com/mediamanager.

There's a link to it from your Settings page (in the "Manage Blog" section).

Though not a big change, the new user interface is more like that of the rest of Google, with a hide-able left sidebar that, alas, is just for navigation. 

A fresh coat of paint

There are no new features on the sidebar, such as search or sort, and the functionality remains very basic: you can view and delete images.

Google Photos this is not.

However, the default sort order here is newest-first, so you don't have to scroll all the way to the end to find recent images.

Also, you can select multiple images and delete them all at once.

As with the Album Archive, there is no undo for deletions. So, be careful!

Information about each photo is still available on hover. Download remains available by opening any image + right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac), or by pressing on your phone or tablet.

The Album Archive is still live, too.

For now, anyway.

Links

• Your new Media Manager
• Your unreconstructed Album Archive
• About photos in Blogger

Today's fanciful illustration is one of many created in the late 19th century by Françoise Foliot for a series entitled "En L'An 2000" ("In the Year 2000"). It has passed into the public domain.