How to use photos from the external cloud for the carousel?

Hi @youmound

If you create new Blank slide:
you can go to Slide > Style tab:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1724-slide
and enter the URL of your image there.

Currently we don’t have Google Photos generator, but I wrote it up. Hopefully we can figure out something in the future.

The link to the google photo does not end with the end of the image .. Well, the browser displays it .. It’s like ..

Oops, Something Went Wrong
The background image format is not correct! The supported image formats are: png, jpg, jpeg, gif, webp, svg.

Hi @youmound

Oh, right, I’m sorry I forgot about that check. But we only have that for the slide background image. We don’t have such check for the image layer:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1833-image-layer

I just tested that with an image from Google Photos, and it worked fine for me.

How do you generate these links? They are so long for me. And it doesn’t display the photo in the slide. Maybe try with the link from me attached?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nqvhxIhjtxY7XpWc6AQmgUIvRnfVZcJsUR2JgmUnOoOjw77-97Ucah24syPkDTxzPSc_zBZWUSJAnenfTc4qwM1QVdCTfd658tvgE6BLMXTDVR_naCZcpUBxWAaLzxORdlA-tpfFx7Ym_evAxYWICEgHYoyCGiI4JTgK22X_i20Z4y2gOMKRfKQw1diC5kdP4qTtW0WVgXmloAqy1o0OZzAvLP1VU4RYHqgMKNTjEw2FXQz7m2uNKxOIpxIxCdBF_fRTNxeK1h68Dg8WFHOz6J3bB28Q3fNEULCqRRTSmghk4wvP7ocOe-cSGR7RPIJTvE8D2uTZ9UzJ9dpIP8scfLzbeji9T6wMdWVh6QXqr0prkfb9-7ENnpRjPqPeLumIWWC31V0GNS6KgSj-qkxLeETaNXgNL5kx-a8EOb1yp_hMfmQENmmeJB_TUqd7k6WHeP6wlvUYSCX43bB_VaVy28s8RURnX6uYxPr-XJQO8MKw_LDs93SzHYbygRH2rXlTpmciPoXsiYCw0n9JR1irzDmEIZdCZDbcT180j38DmqVRVjuXBqcbylPqIJ73Qpt_zVWyGiPZZhlfCnLSipyId4eICG2OgiBNE7kD4wSOpHLzi8NglCKoA-A2k4QDhGaHkmoc2IbmU9j8w9-tdhYRPpAocww5SPW5WG5udDKcFoVHm5j8Hy1NXYzRhbVlrg=w1400-h788-no?authuser=0

Hi @youmound

We don’t generate that link. Google Photos did. I added this image URL to a new image layer and it displayed fine for me:

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even on the frontend:

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Well, but you added this image from the photos google source or imported to the WP library?

I simply pasted the link you sent:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nqvhxIhjtxY7XpWc6AQmgUIvRnfVZcJsUR2JgmUnOoOjw77-97Ucah24syPkDTxzPSc_zBZWUSJAnenfTc4qwM1QVdCTfd658tvgE6BLMXTDVR_naCZcpUBxWAaLzxORdlA-tpfFx7Ym_evAxYWICEgHYoyCGiI4JTgK22X_i20Z4y2gOMKRfKQw1diC5kdP4qTtW0WVgXmloAqy1o0OZzAvLP1VU4RYHqgMKNTjEw2FXQz7m2uNKxOIpxIxCdBF_fRTNxeK1h68Dg8WFHOz6J3bB28Q3fNEULCqRRTSmghk4wvP7ocOe-cSGR7RPIJTvE8D2uTZ9UzJ9dpIP8scfLzbeji9T6wMdWVh6QXqr0prkfb9-7ENnpRjPqPeLumIWWC31V0GNS6KgSj-qkxLeETaNXgNL5kx-a8EOb1yp_hMfmQENmmeJB_TUqd7k6WHeP6wlvUYSCX43bB_VaVy28s8RURnX6uYxPr-XJQO8MKw_LDs93SzHYbygRH2rXlTpmciPoXsiYCw0n9JR1irzDmEIZdCZDbcT180j38DmqVRVjuXBqcbylPqIJ73Qpt_zVWyGiPZZhlfCnLSipyId4eICG2OgiBNE7kD4wSOpHLzi8NglCKoA-A2k4QDhGaHkmoc2IbmU9j8w9-tdhYRPpAocww5SPW5WG5udDKcFoVHm5j8Hy1NXYzRhbVlrg=w1400-h788-no?authuser=0
to the Image field of the image layer. So it’s not the background of the slide, but a simple image layer:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1833-image-layer