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Photo Sharing: Posting a Link to Your Photo

September 5, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Flickr • Picasa 2

So you found the perfect Photo Sharing site, and now you want to post your photos on a blog, in a forum message, or on another web site. Most photo sharing sites make it very easy.

This tutorial will show you how it’s done using Flickr, Picasa Web, and WebShots. If you are using a different photo sharing site, the instructions will probably be very similar. Just take a peek around that site’s interface.

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Sharing Photos Online – Choosing an Online Photo Management Service

August 24, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Flickr • Picasa 2

Uploading your digital photos online is a great way to share your memories with friends and family. But which online photo album is best? I will walk you through a few of the popular choices for online photo sharing sites; I hope it helps you to choose the one that fits your needs.

Flickr.com (Yahoo)

Personally, I love Flickr. Besides easy to use photo management, there is a great community of passionate photographers. As a member, you can post & receive comments, save other photos to your “favorites”, join community groups, and save other members as your “contacts”.

Don’t mistakenly think that to use Flickr, you must be social. Not so. Some or all of your photos can remain private, or only available to specific “friends and family” contacts. You choose who can view, download, print, blog, comment on, annotate, search, and view Exif info for your photos. You set the license for photo use, whether full restriction or a creative commons.

Flickr’s Upload Tools

Flickr offers a free membership consisting of a 100 MB photo upload limit per calendar month, along with the ability to organize your photos into 3 “sets” (another word for albums)

If you need more, the Flickr pro membership is only $25 per year. It offers unlimited upload, bandwidth, sets, and ad free browsing. (Note: The advertising for the Flickr free membership, is not as blatant as other photo management web sites.)

There are several options to upload a photo file to Flickr:

The Flickr Uploader is easy to use. Click to browse to your photos on your hard drive, then choose one file, or multiple photo files by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on each file you would like to upload. After all photos are uploaded to Flickr, add tags, title, and description.

There is also the Flickr Basic Uploader, which is old fashioned, and time consuming if you have a lot of photos with different tags and settings.

There are several other upload tools for Windows and Mac users. I use the iPhoto plugin (Mac only) and I love it because it is so easy to add titles, descriptions and tags for each separate photo or for all photos I am uploading.

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Uploading Photos to PicasaWeb Using Picasa 2

August 21, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Picasa 2

Picasa 2 (from Google) is a simple to use photo organizer and editor for Windows. This tutorial assumes you have already downloaded and installed Picasa 2 on your Windows computer.

When Picasa 2 launches for the first time, it will scan your hard drive to find all image files. This will take several minutes depending on how fast your processor is, and how many photo files it finds.

Picasa 2 organizes the photos into separate albums based on the name of the folder the photos were found in.

Once your photos are organized in Picasa 2, it is possible to upload to Picasaweb directly from the Picasa interface.

Once your photos are uploaded to PicasaWeb, it is easy to:

To obtain a PicasaWeb account, all you need is a google gmail email account. Once you have a gmail account, log in, then go to PicasaWeb, read & accept the User Agreement, and launch Picasa 2.

accept the terms at picasaweb

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Include a Photo with Craig’s List Ad

April 20, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Internet • Picasa 2

This is one more tutorial written specifically for my Dad, but hopefully it might help other newbies.

Craig’s List is an online web site offering the ability to post classified ads for free. I think of it as a big yard sale online.

Make sure to read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, along with the Avoid Scams article.

The ad posting process is fairly easy, but people seem to get stuck on including a photo with the ad. Hopefully this tutorial will help.

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Resizing Photos Using Picasa 2

April 17, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Picasa 2

I have written this tutorial specifically for my Dad, but other newbies might find it helpful.

This is a beginner’s tutorial with basic step-by step instructions. It covers resizing using the Export feature in Picasa 2. Screen shots were created using Windows XP.

Picasa is an easy to use photo editing program from Google. It can be downloaded from Google’s web site. Google offers additional tutorials if you care to learn more advanced features, such as editing, emailing, and blogging photos.

This tutorial does not cover the many wonderful editing features of Picasa, but there is one feature that will come in handy.

Resizing Photos With Picasa’s Export

Note: Export vs Save in Picasa 2 – To view the different options for saving and exporting photos in Picasa, view the tutorial at Picasa Help.

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Importing Photos from Camera Using Picasa 2

April 17, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Picasa 2

I have written this tutorial specifically for my Dad, but other newbies might find it helpful.

This is a beginner’s tutorial with basic step-by step instructions. It covers importing image files from an attached camera using Google’s Picasa 2. Screen shots were created using Windows XP.

Picasa is an easy to use photo editing program from Google. It can be downloaded from Google’s web site. Google offers additional tutorials if you care to learn more advanced features, such as editing, emailing, and blogging photos.

Importing Image Files from Camera Using Picasa 2

Note: Import = downloading images from a camera into your computer.

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