Embedding Images from Google Drive

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While Google Drive lets you upload any file, the support for files that can't be edited using Google Docs/Sheets/Slides is limited. For example, you can embed PDF files and videos, but Google doesn't offer permalinks for images.

So you've uploaded a photo to Google Drive and the only options are to download the file and link to the image page. But what if you want to embed that image in a web page or simply post a direct link to the image? You may think that right-clicking the image lets you copy the image URL, but that's not true. Even if you check the source code of a page or use features like Firefox's "view page info", you'll get a link that doesn't work.

Fortunately, there's an easy solution - replace this URL from the address bar:
http://docs.google.com/file/d/FILEID/edit
with: 
http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=FILEID
(where FILEID is a long sequence of digits and letters). 

This only works if you've changed the visibility options to "public on the Web" or "anyone with the link" in the Share dialog.