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Deleting and Downloading Photos, and Viewing Details
If you’re looking at one of your own photos in lightbox view, the Options menu gives you a few basic controls that are similar to the ones you see when you click Options while viewing other people’s Google+ photos (Viewing Photos). The “Photo details” and “Download photo” options do the same things as for other people’s photos, but there’s also a “Delete photo” option and a “Report/Delete comments” option. “Delete photo” removes the photo not only from your collection, but also from any of your posts that it appears in. In fact, if the photo you delete was the only image attached to a post, that whole post gets deleted, too—text and all. So deleting a photo is a pretty drastic move. If you realize you’ve accidentally shared a photo more widely than you wanted, a better option than deleting it is to restrict who it’s shared with, as explained on Changing Album Visibility.
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Remember, even if you delete a photo or restrict how it’s shared, that doesn’t guarantee that it didn’t fall into the wrong hands before you did so. Someone could have taken a screenshot of it or downloaded it while it was up. So think carefully before you upload sensitive photos in the first place.
“Report/Delete comments” makes flags and Xs appear on the comments in the box on the right side of lightbox view (if there are any comments). As with a post, you can click the X to remove a comment, or click the flag to report a comment that’s really annoying, hurtful, or placed by someone you think has not-so-awesome motives for being on Google+. Reporting a comment brings it to Google’s attention, and they can then give the person who posted it a warning—and possibly kick him off the site.
Adjusting Overall Photo Settings
AS YOU’VE LEARNED, MOST of the settings you need to control who can see, comment on, and tag people in photos appear when you click on a photo or album. But you can save yourself some time by tweaking a few options on the Google+ settings page that affect all your photos.
To get to the Google+ settings page, head to the upper-right corner of any Google+ page, click the gear icon, and then choose “Google+ settings.” (The one place you won’t see this icon is in lightbox view, so if you’re viewing a photo there, simply click the X to see the gear icon.) On the page that appears, scroll down to the Photos section.
This section contains three settings that affect every photo you post, as well as two links that remind you of how to change which photos and videos people visiting your profile can see. Here’s what each option does:
Show photo geo location information in newly updated albums and photos. Most cellphones automatically record your GPS coordinates when you snap a picture. If you turn this setting on and then upload images from your phone, people looking at those photos can click the Options button and choose “Photo details” to see where photo was taken (displayed on a Google Map). If you keep this setting off, you have to manually add location info to a photo (or batch of photos) when you upload them (you can’t add location information after that).
Allow viewers to download my photos. It’s fine to leave this setting turned on if you don’t mind people grabbing copies of your shots. But if you’re concerned about your images floating around the Web, or your photos are of a professional or sensitive nature, you’ll want to turn this off. Keep in mind, though, that if someone can see your image, there’s always a way for them to get a copy of it (by taking a screenshot, for example).
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