News!! How To Piece Of Employment 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, too what y'all tin ship away practise most it.

Back inwards 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 ane time again without beingness re-directed.

Quite a few things accept changed since too thence   In particular, Google have:

• Changed their strategy roughly Google+
• Released Google Photos too retired Google+ Photos
• Changed the Picasa-web-albums re-direct to larn 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 y'all access to photos, photo-albums too information most photos that y'all created inwards Blogger (and other Google tools) - which isn't available inwards 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 y'all run into this:

Instead of this:

when y'all larn to www.picasaweb.google.com.

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

Bad news:    As Google's Album Archive production is turned on roughly the world, too specifically ane time it is turned on for your, in that place is no way to to endure Picasa-web-albums, without beingness sent to Google Album Archive.

Your entirely option is to endure to Google Photos directly, or to piece of work amongst pictures entirely through Blogger's post-editor.

Is in that place a employment amongst using Google Album Archive too 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 too Picasa-desktop had a break of features which Google accept but decided non to render inwards Google Photos.   These features include:

• Making slideshows too putting them into blog-posts or websites.
• Embedding Picasa Web albums too photos inwards blog-posts or websites.
• Linking to photos, albums, too Public Galleries which an URL that contains your usename 
• Photo tags, tagging people, likes, +1's, too 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, too they for sure run into a employment amongst the changes.  Personally, I intend that things are a picayune to a greater extent than nuanced.  There is a lot of exceptional behind what y'all tin ship away too cannot practise inwards Album Archive - too why sure actions are too aren't available.   This isn't e'er consistent amongst the documentation - eg the documentation says that nosotros tin ship away delete photos inwards Album Archive, but I've got at to the lowest degree ane album / photograph amongst no delete icon showing.   Other people accept reported that they had albums which aren't showing upwards inwards their Album Archive.     Some are unhappy because they cannot practise novel albums, entirely piece of work amongst ones that they've already made.  

But for all that, I haven't withal establish a full show-stopper final result that stops me from using the Google tools to piece of work amongst images for my blogs.    Have you?

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