SAVING & SHARING PHOTOS
Fortunately, FOGBEES like to use their cameras. Most events gather hundreds of digital pictures. Share these pictures by uploading them to the FOGBEE Photo vault on Shutterfly or to your personal on-line photo stores on Flickr or Picasa. The storage on Shutterfly is FREE, the upload is fast, and hard-copy prices are competitive.
Flickr provides 250MB (about 200 pictures) and Picasa provides 1GB (about 800 pictures) of FREE storage. You can buy additional storage for a small annual fee. Both of these sites allow your friends to download high resolution copies of your pictures, whereas Snapfish requires your friends buy them for $0.05/ea.
All these sites offer a slide show option to view pictures. Shutterfly, Flickr, and Picasa show great high-res slide shows. But none can compare to the fantastic features of PhotoShow (subscription service from Roxio).
None of these programs are user-friendly and it takes time playing with them to find where they have hidden all the navigation links. However, they are worth the effort. If you need help, just send a note to fogbees@gmail.com .
For retaining & sharing photos with the Group or the general public, use Shutterfly. These programs are best SUITABLE with high-speed Internet connections.
Most popular Photo Sharing program on the Internet.
Although we have started using Snapfish, Flickr has two significant advantages over SnapFish: 1) the Slide Shows are FULL Screen and high quality, and 2) you can down-load FULL resolution copies. The main disadvantages is the inability to organize into sets, photos submitted by several people in a Group.
With Flickr we have no shared room. You have your own vault. Setup a limited FREE Yahoo account and then use your registration to setup your FREE Flickr account.
Organize and share our pictures as a Club.
The photos uploaded to the FOGBEE room on SnapFish are private and can be viewed only by people with Snapfish accounts who have the room code.
To POST or VIEW photos in the FOGBEE Photo Vault, you must be invited. Contact the Web Master at
Fogbees@gmail.com for an invitation and room code to enter the Group Room. Setup a FREE Snapfish Account and enter our room with the room code.
2) Click on Add (right side)
3) Click on Upload Photos
4) Bullet on New Album, enter your title & name.
5) Click the select photos & videos button
6) Use the controls on the Snapfish Upload window to browse to the folder on your computer that has your pictures. Select your photos (you can select more than one)
7) Click OPEN button and Upload Photos
2) Click on Upload Photos & Videos (right side)
3) Click on Choose Photos and videos
4) Browse to the location on your computer where you have stored your photos and while holding down the <ctrl> click on each photo to upload.
5) You can use the Add More button to repeat step #4 and add to your list.
6) Click the Upload Photos & Videos at bottom of screen.
7) Click on Add a Description
8) Enter description for a SET on the Right Side. When complete click on Save (on bottom)
Pros: -Has group rooms & members can share any album in the
room.
-Can get prints.
Pros: -Can send hyper-links to view pictures
-Don't need a Flickr account to view prints.
-High-res Slide Shows
-Can download FREE high-res copies
Cons: -Must have Snapfish account to view any photos.
-Doesn't provide hyper-links
-Slide shows are low resolution
-Must pay to download high-res copies
OVERVIEW
Cons: -No group facility
-Only 250MB of FREE storage. Additional space costs
$25/yr.
Picasa does Flickr one better it has downloadable software that you can use to organize and edit your pictures off-line, it has 1) the Slide Shows are FULL Screen and high quality, and 2) you can down-load FULL resolution copies. The upload utulity is not user-friendly. Unlike Snapfish and Flickr, Picasa has no progress indicator. You have sit patiently and hope everything is going okay.
With Picasa we have no shared room. You have your own vault. Register for FREE Picasa account .
Pros: -Can send hyper-links to view pictures
-Don't need a Picasa account to view prints.
-High-res Slide Shows
-Can download FREE high-res copies
- FREE Off-line software
Cons: -No group facility
-Only 1GB of FREE storage. Additional space costs a
very small annual fee.
- Bad upload monitoring.
Google's version of Flickr with added features
UPLOADING PHOTOS
To Upload Photos to Picasa
1) Picasa uploads are best done with the FREE Picasa Software. You can upload without it, but you have to fetch each photo individually, which can be very time consuming.
2) Download the FREE software from the Google site and launch. Follow these setup instructions.
3) Scroll the preview window on the right to the album that you want to share. Just above the album to the right, click on the Sync to Web button.
4) Log into your Google account.
5) Accept the 1600 pixel max width limit.
6) The program starts the upload. All you will see is a little wheel turning in upper right hand corner and syncing above the Sync to Web button.
7) When the upload is complete, the syncing changes to View Online: Unlisted.
8) Click on the View Online: Unlisted to display your pictures.
SHARING PHOTOS
How to Share Snapfish Photos
Share any album in the FOGBEE room as a batch or as a simple Slide Show by sending the link to it in an e-mail.
1) Log in to the FOGBEE Group room.
2) Click on Share (upper right) and select Album
3) Check the album(s) that your want to share
4) Click on Choose these albums in upper right corner.
5) Enter e-mail addresses to send a view invitation and add a personal message.
6) Click on Share album.
7) Your friend(s) receive an e-mail inviting them to view your pictures. Unfortunately, they must have a Snapfish account to view these photo's.
How to Share Flickr Photos
Share a PHOTO SET as a batch or as a simple Slide Show by sending the link to it in an e-mail or imbedding the link in the blog or Web site.
1) Log in to your personal vault.
2) Click on Your PhotoStream
3) Click on the Set (along right) that your want to share
4) Click on Share this in upper right corner of screen.
5) Enter e-mail addresses or click on Grab the link.
6) With e-mail people receive a link to your pictures on which they can click to see this set.
7) With Grab the link gives a URL that you can copy as a hyper-link on a Web site or blog.
How to Share Picasa Photos
Share a PHOTO ALBUM as a batch or as a simple Slide Show by sending the link to it in an e-mail or imbedding the link in the blog or Web site.
1) Log in to your Google Account.
2) Click on the icon of the album that you wish to share.
3) Click on Share button in the right side-bar. Your can enter a message and an e-mail address list of people with whom to share this album. When done, click on Send at the bottomw of the screen.
4) You can also share this album by sending or posting in a blog the URL of your album. Click on Link to this album in right side-bar (next to your album)
5) Under Paste link in e-mail of IM, copy the URL.
MISCELLANEOUS
Organizing Photos on Flickr
Photos on Flickr are retained in a Photostream in the time sequence in which they were uploaded. You can assign groups of photos to a SET and distributed a URL to that SET. Others can view them as a batch or in a slide show. You can organize photos within a SET so the slide show feature displays pictures in the proper order:
1) Log in to your personal vault.
2) Click on Your Photostream . Locate the SET that you want to sort (organize) in the SET line-up along the right side and click on Edit under the SET icon.
3) All the photos appear as icons on an easel. Drag them to a new location thereby sorting them to the order in which they should appear in a slide show of the SET.
4) Once they are in the proper order, click on Save in the lower left.
CLEAN UP PHOTOS BEFORE UP-LOADING
Most of the FOGBEES will use your pictures in the form that you up-load, so, if possible, please follow a couple simple rules before up-loading your pictures.
1) Edit them to re-format (rule of thirds), crop-out extraneous content, and adjust exposure and contrast. A number of free programs are available on the Internet. See Help in Photo Menu.
2) Upload high resolution, largest format that you have. Do not reduce or increase JPEG compression. The Snapfish upload is fairly fast.
However, if the above sounds like greek, don't hesitate to upload. Any picture is better than no picture.
Four ways to get copies of the pictures on Snapfish
1) FREE Low Res JPEG: (Good for Computer Slide Shows, Web Pages, and MySpace)
- After logging into the FOGBEE room. Select any FOGBEE album by clicking on it. Thumbnails of all the photos
in that album are displayed.
- From the thunmbnails find the picture you want and click on it to get a large image of it.
- Right click on the picture you want and select "Save Image as. . .". Windows saves a JPEG copy of this image
on your computer in the location and name you select.
2) Low-Cost High-Res JPEG: ($0.25 for first picture and $0.05 for next pictures.)
- Follow the instructions above to find the picture that you want.
- In the right side-bat click on "Download the picture".
3) FREE High Res JPEG: (If you are making a projection slide show, you need Hi-Res JPEG's)
- Follow the instructions above to find the picture that you want.
- Copy image # and ask owner of the album to e-mail a copy to you.
4) Order a hard-copy print from Snapfish.
Due to continuing problems with SNAPFISH which they have not resolved after repeated requests,
we have move the FOGBEE Photo Share to Shutterfly.
We think you will find it to be VASTLY superior to Snapfish.
Please read instructions below for setting up an account.
The photos uploaded to the FOGBEE Group on Shutterfly are public and can be viewed by logging into our Web Page
To post your photos to the FOGBEE Site, you must
1) Set up a FREE account at www.shutterfly.com.
2) Send the email address that you used to open your Shutterfly account to Fogbees@gmail.com
3) You will receive an email welcoming you to the FOGBEE Cycling Club Site.
Pros: -Has group rooms where members can share albums
-Can get prints.
-Provide hyper-links
-Slide shows are high resolution
-Can download high-res copies for FREE.
Cons: - None.
OBSOLETE - PLEASE DO NOT USE
Upload your photos to your FREE account and transfer them to the FOGBEE Photo Site.
1) Sign in into your FREE account.
2) Click on the New Album. Then click on Upload in upper left section of the View Organize page.
3) Click on Choose Files in the Upload Pictures page and browse to where your pictures are on your computer.
4) Select all the pictures that you want to upload individually by holding ctrl-C and click the mouse on them or as a group by selecting first, holding shift-key, and then the last.
5) Click Create New Album and enter a title.
6) Click Start button and your pictures will begin uploading.
7) When upload is complete click Post Pictures to Share Site, select the FOGBEE Site, and click Post to Site button.
8) You will see the FOGBEE Site with YOUR album.
