On Sat, Jan 7, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Perry Pellechia wrote: > I found that it is still possible to find the old Picasa interface. > Select "Profile" from the drop down menu at the top right icon. When > the Profile page loads click on the "About" tab. On the right hand > side of the about page you should have "Other profiles" that include a > link to "Picasa Web Albums", This should lead you to the old site. > How long this is still available is unknown. I have read that Google > was phasing out the Picasa brand and I assume the old interface.
Thanks, Perry, but I think that only works if you're signed in. The problem I have is that I maintain several galleries of photos of behalf of a number of other people who aren't subscribers to either Picasa or Google+. When I send them the album link, all they can see is the Google + interface and they are confused by it. And they can't see the album map any more. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > <----------------------------------------------------> > Perry Pellechia > Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry > <----------------------------------------------------> > > > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > G'day all > > > > When I went to look at one of my Picasa web albums today, the link > > diverted automatically to a Google+ interface and there doesn't seem to > > be any way to get the old interface back. > > > > <rant> > > > > Instead of the old, boring interface of thumbnails in rows and columns, > > you now get larger thumbnails in a 'mosaiced' interface. Yes, the old > > interface was as boring as bat shit, but it was intuitive and it worked. > > > > With the Google+ interface, when you hover the cursor over each > > thumbnail you get a medium sized version to pop up. Nice. Except that > > it's not immediately apparent that you need to click on each thumbnail > > to open a gallery of full sized images where you can then move back and > > forth between the photos using the extremely small arrows on the right > > and left of the screen. But what's happened to the captions which, in > > the old interface, were neatly placed at the bottom of each image? Oh, > > there they are at the top of the right hand panel - would it have hurt > > to at least put the captions text in bold? > > > > And what's that double headed arrow thing superimposed on the image? > > What happens if I click it? Ah - the caption appears, overlaid at the > > bottom of the image. That's fine, except that as soon as you do that, > > the right hand comments panel disappears. And so does the overlaid > > caption after a few seconds. But wait!! The superimposed caption gets > > replaced by the comments (if there are any). Isn't that clever? - but > > you can't see the full comment unless you click the superimposed panel - > > whereupon the right hand comments panel reappears. > > > > And I thought the Flickr interface was impenetrable.... > > > > Why can't they bloody well leave well enough alone!!. > > > > Stick it up your fundamental, Google. > > > > </rant> > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > -- > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
