How to role Picasa-web-albums without beingness re-directed - August 2016 update

This article explains what has happened to Picasa-web-albums, why it is at nowadays re-directing to Google Album Archive, in addition to what you lot tin practise most it.



picasa web-albums logo behind a closing theatrical curtain
Back inward July 2013, I described how many people who started Picasa-web-albums were being immediately re-directed to Google+ photos and what they could to to render to using PWA in i trial again without existence re-directed.

Quite a few things accept changed since in addition to thence   In particular, Google have:
  • Changed their strategy or thence Google+
  • Released Google Photos in addition to retired Google+ Photos
  • Changed the Picasa-web-albums re-direct to instruct to Google Photos instead of Google+ Photos
  • Stopped supporting Picasa (announcement)
  • Stopped supporting Picasa-web-albums (announcement)
  • Released a novel tool called Google Album Archive, which gives you lot access to photos, photo-albums in addition to information most photos that you lot created inward Blogger (and other Google tools) - which isn't available inward Google Photos.
  • Changed the re-direct on Picasa-web-albums, thence that it goes to Google Album Archive instead of to  Google Photos.

That is why you lot encounter this:



Instead of this:



when you lot instruct to www.picasaweb.google.com.


How to goal Picasa-web-albums from re-directing to Google Album Archive

Bad news:    As Google's Album Archive production is turned on or thence the world, in addition to specifically in i trial it is turned on for your, at that spot is no way to to purpose Picasa-web-albums, without existence sent to Google Album Archive.

Your exclusively pick is to purpose to Google Photos directly, or to operate alongside pictures exclusively through Blogger's post-editor.



Is at that spot a work alongside using Google Album Archive in addition to Google Photos instead of Picasa-web-albums?

There are posts on help-forums etc from people who are unhappy most this change:   Picasa-web-albums in addition to Picasa-desktop had a lay out of features which Google accept exactly decided non to render inward Google Photos.   These features include:
  • Making slideshows in addition to putting them into blog-posts or websites.
  • Embedding Picasa Web albums in addition to photos inward blog-posts or websites.
  • Linking to photos, albums, in addition to Public Galleries which an URL that contains your usename 
  • Photo tags, tagging people, likes, +1's, in addition to Picasa Web comments. 
  • Making slideshows.
  • Following people based soley on their photograph collection
  • Viewing world galleries.

People who used those features didn't desire to lose them, in addition to they for certain encounter a work alongside the changes.  Personally, I intend that things are a piddling to a greater extent than nuanced.  There is a lot of special behind what you lot tin in addition to cannot practise inward Album Archive - in addition to why sure actions are in addition to aren't available.   This isn't ever consistent alongside the documentation - eg the documentation says that nosotros tin delete photos inward Album Archive, but I've got at to the lowest degree i album / photograph alongside no delete icon showing.   Other people accept reported that they had albums which aren't showing upwards inward their Album Archive.     Some are unhappy because they cannot practise novel albums, exclusively operate alongside ones that they've already made.  

But for all that, I haven't however constitute a full show-stopper effect that stops me from using the Google tools to operate alongside images for my blogs.    Have you?



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