Google photos screensaver only uses 5 pictures for free#
Google photos screensaver only uses 5 pictures how to#

Google photos screensaver only uses 5 pictures how to#

Now follow the Google instructions on how to get to your Google Photos Screensaver Settings, but this time tick Photo Feeds and click Configure.

See the orange feed icon in the illustration under 2 above? RIGHTclick that link and choose Copy Shortcut (or Copy Link Location or the like) to copy the feed link to your clipboard. Again, as I know it's CC licensed, I'll use SWSwann's page as an example.

So, go to the page whose feed you want to use - sometimes you have to go to a particular album to see a feed link.

So you can't say you haven't been warned.

All right, you may well sigh and point out that even if you don't have permission to include someone's photostream on your home computer screensaver but you do it anyway, who's to know? And would they really bother to take you to task for it? But hey, I'm just pointing out the strict line on this - remember that record companies have sued grannies and 12 year old girls on MP3s.

Here's an example from the Flickr page of SWSwann who kindly gave me permission to use a photo in my post on 'how to sneakily upload an MP3 to Blogger even though they won't really let you yet' (I also show in that video where to look to see the licence) - see the 'Some rights reserved' and icons before it?: More photo sharing sites ought to do this. 'Some rights reserved') right under each pic, and you can click hover over the icons to see the details. Flickr at least have made it easier to do this, by putting the copyright info (e.g.

To check permissions, you may have to do a bit of clicking through.

If the author has licensed their work under Creative Commons or similar licences, then you should be OK.

Google photos screensaver only uses 5 pictures for free#

I have the copyright to the content of this blog, and even though I've published it on the Web so that it's easy for others to copy and paste my text / pics or scrape them from my feed, that doesn't mean that it's legal to do so - in fact, my content can only be used or reproduced on the terms I've set, which in my case is the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 version of the Creative Commons licence - which basically allows people to use my content privately for free without further permission from me, as long as they credit me. You might think that if they've uploaded their pics to the Web it should be OK - but nope, copyright is never that straightforward.

First, make sure you have permission to use the photographer's work on your computer.

How to add a photo feed from the Web to your Google Photos Screensaver

Google have put together a list of other sites that support photo feeds. (or - it's the same thing - 'Feed' or 'RSS' link), which you'll find tucked away usually at the bottom left or right of the relevant webpage, usually with a 'Subscribe to X's photo' description. For present purposes, all you need to know is that popular picture uploading / photograph sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and Google's own Picasa Web allow users to provide feeds of their uploaded photos, which can then be accessed via the standard feed icon:

Google have provided clear instructions including a video on how to add photographs etc from folders as a source for screensaver pictures.Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В«ut I particularly like the fact that you can even add photo feeds (photo streams) from the Net to your screensaver.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor those who don't know what feeds are, the good news is that you don't have to know. The free Google Pack collection of 'essential software' put together by Google () includes a nice Google Photos Screensaver which you can set to rotate through the photos or other images on your computer (e.g.