Google has started automatically "fixing" new pictures as they are added to your blog
These features are turned "on" past times times default. And because:
- Photos loaded using Blogger are stored inwards Picasa-web-albums, and
- Picasa-web-albums besides as Google+ Photos real have got the same collection of photos - yes, level for accounts that practise non utilization G+,
Why is this a problem
In many cases, these features slice of piece of work as they are intended to, besides the illustration that is shown on your spider spider web log is to a greater extent than attractive than the i you lot lot uploaded - it's brighter, clearer besides loads faster.But inwards that location are about situations where the trial of the auto-enhancement is non good. These include:
- Pictures with about transparency - which is auto-corrected to either lite greyness or black
- Pictures that are intended to movement boring / nighttime / shady - these are automatically lightened.]
- Pictures that are loaded at a certain plenty photograph grapheme - are automatically downgraded to a lower grapheme (which is fine for viewing on screen, exactly non so fine if you lot lot real wish to utilization your spider spider web log to operate high-quality photos).
Blogger users who have got a non-white background, besides who deliberately upload images with a transparent background so their spider spider web log background testament "show through" the epitome have got been specially annoyed past times times this. And I have got been less than impressed past times times the faint greyness "wash" added to the background of about of my diagrams - for example:
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| The left-hand flick was auto-enhanced, the right manus i was not |
How to turn off photograph auto-enhance if you lot lot utilization Google+
If your spider spider web log - besides the work concern human human relationship you lot lot utilization to post to the spider spider web log - is linked to your Google+ profile, besides so you lot lot tin halt your photos from beingness changed by:- Opening the Google Plus settings tab.
- In the "Photos" section, un-ticking "Automatically acquire upwards new photos"
This stops the auto-enhance besides auto-awesome tools beingness applied to whatever new photos that you lot lot upload from instantly onwards using Google+ Photos, Picasa-web-albums or whatever Blogger characteristic that lets you lot lot accuse a flick (the post-editor, the header widget settings, the flick gadget settings).
Alternatively, you lot lot tin turn off the auto-enhance besides auto-awesome changes that are made to specific pictures past times times past times finding them inwards Google+ photos besides un-ticking "Auto-enhance" inwards the "More" menu.
How to turn off photograph auto-enhance if you lot lot practise non utilization Google+
There is currently no choice inwards Piscasa-web-albums to turn off the auto-enhance feature.This means that if you lot lot accuse photos to either Blogger or Picasa-web-albums, using a Google / Blogger work concern human human relationship that is non linked to a Google+ profile, you lot lot cannot halt auto-enhance from happening.
Some people have got suggested that the way or so this is to:
- Temporarily link the spider spider web log to a Google+ profile (either your ain one, or i that you lot lot practise solely for the slice of piece of work - eg "Mr John Smith")
- Turn off the auto-enhance characteristic using the Google+ physical attention for listed above
- Fix upwards the harm to whatever pictures that you lot lot loaded through Blogger or Picasa-web-albums between mid May 2013 besides today past times times finding them inwards Google+ photos besides un-ticking "Auto-enhance" inwards the "More" menu.
- Unlink the spider spider web log from the Google+ profile.
However I practise non believe that this is solely correct: my tests suggest that whether or non photos are auto-enhanced is controlled past times times the settings on the Google+ account that is used to upload the pictures, no thing whether the spider spider web log is attached to a Google+ profile or not.
(I've been testing this a lot because I have got a pose out of blogs that are linked to Google+ Pages that are inwards my personal profile, exactly which I to a greater extent than frequently than non post to using a different Google work concern human human relationship that has a to a greater extent than generic advert like "Editor, Table Quiz Helper", besides it's ain separate put of Picasa-web-albums: I wish to movement able to manus these accounts on to my successor when I acquire out the community groups that they are for.)
Previously, the primary options that I identified besides recommend were:
- Giving your Google+ work concern human human relationship permission to upload pictures to the Picasa-web-albums of the Google work concern human human relationship that owns the blog.
This choice is tedious, exactly to a greater extent than piece of work with Google's harm besides weather condition status for utilization of Google+, piece still letting a separate non-individual Blogger work concern human human relationship ain the underlying spider spider web log besides supporting pictures etc.
However another option, which I instantly cry back is better, is to:
- Make a Google+ Page for the blog
- Give that Page it's ain login-name besides password - effectively turning it into a separate new Google account
- Give that new Google work concern human human relationship administrator rights to the blog
- Make the setting alter described higher upwards inwards "How to turn off photograph auto-enhance if you lot lot utilization Google+" piece you lot lot are logged inwards as the new Google account
- Use the new Google work concern human human relationship to accuse photos to the blog: this testament intend that the photos are placed inwards the Google+ Photos album associated with the page, besides so you lot lot tin access them using either Picasa-web-albums or Google+ Photos.
Other Options
If you lot lot real don't wish to utilization level a minimal Google-plus account, besides so your options are limited.Use another flick host
You could accuse the pictures that you lot lot wish to utilization inwards your spider spider web log to another picture-hosting service (eg Flickr) - notwithstanding doing this means that you lot lot posts testament non have got a thumbnail image.Minimise the damage
If you lot lot build certain plenty that pictures which you lot lot accuse have got a white background (or whatever coloring background your spider spider web log has) instead of beingness transparent, besides so the touching on of auto-enhance testament movement a lot less. I have got constitute that if you lot lot utilization a .png file rather than a .jpg, the background is white instead of transparent. (This is fine for me, because I utilization white spider spider web log backgrounds.)Wait for things to change
Influenza A virus subtype A rattling simple practise would movement for Picasa-web-albums to utilization default values of "No" instead of "Yes" for auto-enhance besides auto-awesome, or to put these upwards as settings inwards the PWA profile.Another choice is that Google may improve the enhancement algorithms (ie rules which command how pictures are "touched up").
Fingers crossed, i of these testament movement on soon.
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