Apparently, when Google uploads a photo it does not keep the original in the original size. Instead, it creates two smaller versions, one about two-thirds the original size; and one about one-third the original size. It is the 1/3rd size that you can save from the website.
There is another way. I am sending you links to the Picasa Albums that are created when I upload photographs to my main website.
https://picasaweb.google.com/102224244739054990462/VOICESOFIOWA?authkey=Gv1sRgCOiipI2AqaGXwAE
Picasa Album One
https://plus.google.com/photos/102224244739054990462/albums/5812956030604712417?banner=pwa&authkey=CKWmmcyhmIS_6QE
Picasa Album Two
By using these Picasa sites, you can zoom the pictures to their 2/3rd sizes for a better look at them. When you go to these sites and choose a picture to see, click on the (+) sign above the picture. That will take you to a new screen where you can zoom in on the photograph.
Next to the (+) sign on that screen is the word 'More'. If you click on that, it will offer to download the picture. So far, both Firefox and Explorer download the 2/3rds versions that way. It is still not as good as the originals, but it is a step in the right direction.
I will continue to work on the problem. Google does have a 'Sites' feature into which you can download files. But, it has a 100Mbyte limit and the photos which I download can be from 1 to 6 megabytes each. For instance, the 103 pictures which I posted in my last message equal about 224 megabytes, in their original versions.
I will continue to search for a solution to this problem.
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Meanwhile, tomorrow is the Fourth of July for all Humans in our Human Country. It is a time to remember how our Human nation was created to begin with; to appreciate how difficult it was to win our own nation for ourselves; and to plan on how to keep our Human nation from being murdered by the horde of turds that populate the Sewers of the East and the West.
I have a considerable amount of writing to put out about those plans, and how to achieve them.
There is something that you have to take into account about the recent events in Wash This Death City (WTDC), in which five Naked Monkeys in a cage conjured up some terrible attempts to kill off our country. There is no longer any validity or legitimacy to anything that calls itself a 'government' in that despotic nest of scum and villains.
The legitimacy and validity are both gone now. Never to return.
The ramifications of that are way beyond the abilities of their little brains to comprehend.
You will comprehend. You are Human.
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Markel Peters
http://www.voices-of-iowa.blogspot.com/