Addressing Google Photo Albums

A while ago Google discontinued Picasa’s Web Albums, and standardized on its smartphone-friendly “Google Photos” Albums (in German »Google Fotos«). How to recover old Picasa Albums is another story.
   Today I give tipps to share (address) Google Albums.
   First of all: Work with the white album. When I upload pictures to Google Albums – I’ll explain that below – I get a black album view at first. It looks like this:

The URL address in this example is
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/107484383993159578524/album/AF1QipOLqI3k--WahDtoCMim_ooGTsfPh3ijIKJBwlQj?source=pwa .
   Note the folder “albumarchive” after google.com.
   I never work with this “black” presentation type of the album! 

Instead I hit menu, the three vertical dots ⋮ in the upper right of the black show, and I select »In Google Fotos verwalten«, something like “manage in Goggle photos”. 

Now I get the “white album”. That’s the one to work with!

The album as presented with “Google Photos” or – in German – »Google Fotos«.







I only work with this “white” versions of my Google photo albums! 




The  URL address of this version is (in this example):
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOdcH4DY9l1qkaIFtWhbtQCog0qOQFto5p53hSEVKsZ2URI2O8YG01GBPK1MyBSaA?key=TjYtOHluTXhBejY4WTJRdHFMeHNwMms3R2p6ZlRR
   Note the folder name “share” after google.com
(If you’ve got “album”, don’t use that, it will result in a URL not found error 404:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOLqI3k--WahDtoCMim_ooGTsfPh3ijIKJBwlQj)

• To share the whole album, hit the share icon on top right, this one:

Now get the short “Link”, like
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MdihpK8A2DLDs3Jt2  
   This is the link to the album to distribute to your friends and family. 

• To share the album, but start with a particular picture, do not use this method. Googles short album link will always display the album’s first picture first, and typically you might want to link first to a specific picture in the album. 
   First display the picture (or video) within the album and get the whole long URL of the specific picture within the album, for example
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOdcH4DY9l1qkaIFtWhbtQCog0qOQFto5p53hSEVKsZ2URI2O8YG01GBPK1MyBSaA/photo/AF1QipNfRquSjE1Vu8sp9x4LFSAIdYzv5j5gA789l8Vd?key=TjYtOHluTXhBejY4WTJRdHFMeHNwMms3R2p6ZlRR
Again note the “share” after google.com/. 
(Don’t take the “album” like in  
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOLqI3k--WahDtoCMim_ooGTsfPh3ijIKJBwlQj.)
   Do not however distribute this excessively long address, it will most probably be broken by e-mail. Shorten it with a link shortener like bit.ly, in this case to http://bit.ly/2uYsPBN to to  (and hope that the recipient of this shortlink won’t be afraid to open it). 
   (A link to “albumarchive” like http://bit.ly/2uq4Oqg is ok as well, but not a link to “album” like http://bit.ly/2vk1itY. What a mess, Google!)
• Only if you just want to share one specific picture only, but prevent the viewer to see other pictures or the whole album, use Google’s share address.  

This tipp: 
  https://blogabissl.blogspot.com/2017/07/addressing-google-photo-albums.html