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Sharing Photos
SHARING PHOTOS IN GOOGLE+ is remarkably easy. The process is slightly different depending on whether you want to share a single photo or a whole album, but either way, it takes just a few seconds.
Head to the Photos page and find the photo or album you want to share. You can share anything you can see on the Photos page, from any section listed on the left: images from your circles, from your phone, ones you’ve been tagged in (“Photos of you”), and so on.
If you just want to share one photo, that’s pretty easy. Navigate to the photo you want to share, and then click it so that it comes up in lightbox view. You should see a Share button (or link) just below the photo. (If you don’t, it’s because the image is in the “Photos from your circles” collection, and the person who posted this photo “locked” it or specifically disabled further sharing [Editing and Deleting Photos].) Click this button and you’ll get a pop-up box where you can add a comment and choose which people and/or circles can see the image. If you click the tiny arrow circled in the figure, you can disable comments on this post and lock the post to prevent people from sharing it with others. When everything looks good, click Share.
NOTE
If you have an Android Phone and you use Instant Upload (Uploading photos automatically from an Android phone or tablet), “Photos from your phone,” works a bit differently. Clicking a photo in this category just selects it, so you can keep clicking other images to select them, too. To display a photo in this category in lightbox view so you can share it, you have to double-click it.
If you want to share an entire album of photos, head to the “Your albums” category, click the album you want to share, and then click the “Share album” button near the top of the page.
So what if you have several different photos you’ve uploaded to Google+ and want to share, but they’re not in an arranged album? Actually, Google+ isn’t all that helpful in this case. There’s no way to rearrange your albums in Google+ and move photos from one album to another. However, if the photos you want to share are on your computer, you can create a new album by uploading those photos to Google+ in a single batch, either by clicking the Upload New Photos button on the Photos page (Uploading via Your Browser), or by creating a new post, clicking the camera icon, and then choosing “Create an album” (Uploading as post attachments). So if you’re desperate to get images that are stored only on Google+ into a single album, you could download the images to your computer, and then upload them back onto Google+ so they’re all in the same album; it’s tedious, but it works. And, remember, you don’t need to worry about double-uploading photos, since Google+ gives you unlimited storage space for photos.
Including Photos and Videos in Your Profile
People who’ve added you to their circles will see your photos in their streams and in the “Photos from your circles” category of their own Photos pages. But you can also share photos and videos on your Profile page so that anyone who seeks you out or clicks your name can see them (assuming you set the images’ or clips’ visibility to Public, of course).
As you learned in the box on Editing Your Profile, your profile has a few different tabs, including two labeled Photos and Videos (respectively). Google+ automatically displays these tabs, so you don’t actually need to do anything to display them in your profile—they’re already there. But if you turned these tabs off while editing your profile, it’s super easy to turn them back on. Just head to your Profile page, click the Edit