Google__ The Missing Manual - Kevin Purdy [48]
What if you don’t want to share an album through Google+, but want to send it out by email invitation instead, the way you used to do with Picasa? You can still do that, but Google doesn’t advertise that fact. You’ll have to hunt for the small “Share via email only” link at the bottom of the box. Click it to bring up a familiar page for sharing photos by entering email addresses. If you’re viewing the contents of an album, you can also click the “Link to this album” link on the right side of the page, and then copy the resulting web address and paste it into an email, IM, or wherever you like.
Individual photos on Picasa Web Albums are still shared through Picasa—either sharing via email or by linking to a photo in an album you’ve shared or made public. It’s a fairly good bet, though, that Google will integrate Picasa into Google+ even more in the future, and that all photos will be available for sharing in Google+, individually or as albums.
Finally, Picasa has its own privacy settings for albums, which you’ll want to modify if you set up your account as a place where only you have access to these photos. Head back to your Picasa home page by clicking the “My Photos” tab in the top left of the page (just beneath the black Google toolbar) and then click the “Edit visibility” link on the left side of the page to make changes.
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If you’ve installed the Google+ app on your Android phone and turned on its Instant Upload feature (Uploading photos automatically from an Android phone or tablet), you’ll see an Instant Upload folder in Picasa Web Albums. This folder contains the same photos as the “Photos from your phone” section of the Google+ Photos page (Viewing Photos). Combined with the “Share via email only” link shown on the previous page, it makes the Google+ app a very easy way to share photos from your phone, even with people who aren’t on Google+.
Tagging Photos
ONCE YOU’VE POSTED SOME photos on Google+, you can tag them to indicate who’s in each snapshot. You can even tag other people’s photos (if they set the photos’ permissions to allow tagging).
What happens when you tag someone in a photo? Just like when you mention someone in a post by adding a + or @ in front of their name (see Mentioning People in Posts), they’ll see a post, with a link to your photo, in either the stream associated with the circle they put you in or, if you’re not in one of their circles, their Incoming stream (Other posting tips). They’ll also receive a notification that you’ve tagged them in a photo, and when they click the notification’s link to look at your photo, they’ll have the option remove the tag as explained in the box on Removing Your Name From Tagged Photos.
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When you tag someone in a photo, that person gets access to the whole album that photo belongs to. So before you tag someone in a snapshot, think about whether the other photos in that album are appropriate for them to see.
To get started tagging, click any photo in Google+, whether it’s in your Photos collection or a photo you see in a stream or on a Profile page, to hop to the light-box view with the dark background (you may need to click the photo a second time to get to this view). Under the photo, you’ll likely see an “Add tag” button (or link); if you don’t, that means the person who posted the photo has disabled tagging, as explained on Tagging Photos.
As long as the photo you’re looking at has people in it, if you put your cursor over the “Add tag” button (without clicking it), “Click to name” buttons should appear just under each face in the photo. Simply mouse up to the photo and click one of these buttons to add a tag. When you do, a box appears so you can enter the person’s name.
Start typing the name of the person in the photo and, just like in a post or a search box, a list of likely candidates appears. If you see the person you’re trying to tag, click their name in the list, or tap your keyboard’s down arrow to scroll through the list. If you don’t find a match, that person probably isn’t in your