variation on photo meme

[acroyear]

I went to the 6th image of my 6th Picasaweb album and found this:



One side of the Duomo in Florence, at night.

Comments

[lesa.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

How come Picasaweb allows you to do image forwarding? It doesn't work for me.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

are you talking your own photos or the photos in my album?

i've never quite understood why they won't give me the option of allowing others to have access to the "link to this album" and "link to this photo" features that I myself have in my own albums.

for your own? on the page at picasaweb for an individual photo, look to the right for "link to this photo" - it's an ajax expander. it will give you a form to set the thumbnail size and then you can cut-n-paste the link out. within that link is the link to the scaled image itself. you can't link to the raw image (you'll get a not-found or referrer failure), only to the scaled versions. I edit the html it gives me to add 'border="0"' to the image tag to get rid of the blue box.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Ah okay. I've used the "link to this photo" to get the markup, but I always tried to clean it up to just use the raw image.

It always seems to work at first, but as soon as I refresh the page the image disappears.

Lame.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the link in the "a href=" can't be used in the image, nor can any link that points to the original raw image. those are checked by referrer-url tags, meaning of page that asked for it isn't "picasaweb.google.com" it will return a not found or other error.

the links to the scaled versions, like
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_gEa6EtlmnTo/SOtHzyMwDBI/AAAAAAAAHKg/IJi_09UuyPw/s400/100_0744.JPG

with their "/s???/" syntax seem to work for me so long as I keep it to their official scales (s32, s64, s144, s320, s400, s512, s640, s1024, s1600). any image reference that is missing that /s???/ value usually disappears.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

update - discovered s720 and s800 are also valid values.