the short story of it - google stinks for photo hosting. It's not meant to go outside their universe. I gave up on them long ago when they were dabbling around with ever changing hosting concepts.
So I decided to take a look, uploaded first image ever and the very first message from them is already a show stopper: My choice is to have them recompress my JPEG to crap quality or be limited to a pathetic 15GB of storage space unless I pay. I have 1000GB on Flickr for free...
Anyway - so I upload original to test and it shows me a downsized version. I try share and get the same useless link back to their site. Then right click on image and get this ridiculous URL
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/seWQR3tm2PchoJsMff7zx57gSXPcmImTcT8Ir-VMJbywZ5tgMCzyGiVXI-YrMLLO87llbi0fEG7DT2rVMGxS8blNlHb6N9Q-fYjjWOyP3DMEQbNxTq_oUqK1RwNvDnOF5SP9XtXCMKx0EBG19FJW6JXGifQyVLBqdVvmjEIu1qdlVAlRDVZsmd2CcLkTohdODeylkIJBzpEy-hUaZ-6eu-BYmaii4Kv8T1nFkUQbhGcxGnpLgfB2A9kgUFi90htijTUsOmQl4D_BADX7Q722qTuAXkxEkgrbcZhq7bF0dXTV-92mgyreHHqD2hItRQk_q_bOipVzYtY_GR5N0ApxrulqCkXBRdd-_HEjD5RfI17DbVMf7x7SHn9-RVn00CIrXh5es1fGbAcPIwqSAMmy3OfeBTJuqmrMWe0cMeyh-W5XxX0B01N7ALWRJ1gHh0_rDNKzgaWBD0yw5koIlfnOtgHcVwwOxF-2DKaqnVPMUZup0Vmpqdl02Ti3nXWMG0x69MvmCwCHdBer8H_cPry5wP2M8tj_cdFaL21ku6cCzNmjfDBjuFY52oclInfeENaoOOvcqG3XpwDHIPxRnmozGyxioSSwRMo=w1114-h743-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/seWQR ... 14-h743-no
paste it into browser and it opens just the image, put it into RIMG tags here to fit the size better fails:
however in IMG tags it seems to work, it even scales it for me, so RIMG isn't needed. This is the full image area downsized from what appears a 1024 wide image on their site.
complicated, and from one day to another this may stop working.