Check the documentation about the 'imgmax' parameter here:
http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/reference.html#Parameters

Using 'imgmax=d' willl result in the media:content link to point to the
original file uploaded.

Tom, as for the JPEG compression issues seen: API based uploads don't apply
any special recompression to the image data.
You could do a simple check by first uploading the image through the API,
then requesting the original image link as explained above, then downloading
the original image from that URL. Then compare the original and the
downloaded files and let me know what you find.

Thanks.



On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Sai Prasad Ch <[email protected]>wrote:

> Since Picasa Web Albums do not modify any uploaded images, is there any way
> to *download* the original image through API?
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Detlev Schwabe <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Could it be the on-the-fly sharpening we have announced a little while
>> ago?
>> All images at sizes up to 800px are affected.
>> See here:
>> http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2009/12/looking-sharp-for-holidays.html
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Tom v E <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using the Python client libraryto upload some JPEG images to an
>>> album. But the photos appear very compressed once uploaded. In Picasa
>>> 3.6 there is an option to upload images in their original quality
>>> without any compression, but is there are similar option like this I
>>> can use from within the API?
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