AS YOU’VE LEARNED, MOST of the settings you need to control who can see, comment on, and tag people in photos appear when you click on a photo or album. But you can save yourself some time by tweaking a few options on the Google+ settings page that affect all your photos.

To get to the Google+ settings page, head to the upper-right corner of any Google+ page, click the gear icon, and then choose “Google+ settings.” (The one place you won’t see this icon is in lightbox view, so if you’re viewing a photo there, simply click the X to see the gear icon.) On the page that appears, scroll down to the Photos section.

This section contains three settings that affect every photo you post, as well as two links that remind you of how to change which photos and videos people visiting your profile can see. Here’s what each option does: