101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P12 pps

What MySpace does next is a lot of fun. First, at the top of the page, you have an opportunity to take a photo of yourself using your computer’s webcam. Just follow the prompts. As far as uploading pictures, you’re presented with a navigation toolbar on the left and an interactive place to choose your photos by their thumbnails on the right. To select the photos you want to upload, just navigate to them on the left side of the window and select them on the right. You can choose to put them in an album you already have (using the drop-down menu at the bottom left of the page), or you can create a new one by typing a name for it in the space just to the left of the Upload button. Figure 2.9 shows what all this looks like. When you’re finished uploading photos, there’s a place where you can add captions and tags to them. Tags here are different than what they were for other sites. In MySpace, you tag people in photos by which friends they are in the friends you have listed, so when you scroll over the picture of the person in the photo, it’s identified with a pop-up of a person’s name. Sharing Your Photos Online ■ 41 Figure 2.9 MySpace’s interactive navigation to upload photos. NOTE MySpace limits photo sizes to less than 5 MB each. To view and share your photos, click on Profile > My Photos. After you click on an album, the photos in that album will show up. This is where you have the opportunity to send the album to faraway places. Just click on Click Here to Share This Album with Friends. To send an individual photo by email, click on the image you want, scroll down to below the image on the page that comes up, and click Email to a Friend. You can also click on Share, which lets you send the photo off to Facebook and other places such as www.Digg.com, which is a social content site where people vote your photo thumbs up or down—called digging it. Creating a Facebook Photo Album Facebook is extremely popular. It’s a place where adults (of late, it has become extremely popular with the over-50 set) can go back to their youth by reuniting with people they haven’t seen in a long, long time. When you sign up for Facebook, you’re taken to a homepage. This is the page where you get information about what your friends are doing (after you get a couple of friends, that is). This is where you can see the most recent pictures your friends have taken. If you don’t join a group, you’ll only see profiles and pictures of the people you’ve made friends with. Once you’ve joined and have a few friends, you’ll get lots of news and images from your social group. By joining a photography group (type photography in the search space in the upper-right corner of the Facebook window), you can upload pictures that members of the photography group can see. (Some groups have more than 50,000 members.) To see the groups you’ve joined, navigate to Profile and then click on the Info tab. To get to your Photos page on Facebook, navigate to Profile, then click on the Photos tab in the window that comes up. To upload photos to an album, click on Create a Photo Album on the right side of the Photos page. Facebook will ask you for the name of the album and the location of where the images were taken. It will also give you a drop-down menu of choices for how private you want the photos to be. Make your selection and then click Create Album. An interactive navigation menu will come up in the window, with your folders on the left and the images that are inside them on the right. You navigate to the folder you want and then choose from its contents on the right. Figure 2.10 shows an example. In the figure, you can see 42 ■ Sharing Your Photos Online NOTE Sites such as Digg and Shoutwire let you submit articles and photos, and people vote on whether or not they like them.The ones that get the most votes rise to the top of the heap. I’ve named the album Matt Bamberg Photography, because it’s a sample of my photography that I want people to see. It also says the max upload is 60 photos. So now I click on the Upload button. When the upload process is finished, you’ll get a note that your photos have been uploaded. In the next window your unpublished photos are displayed. Here you can provide tags for them, as you can on MySpace, selecting a person in an image by clicking on that person in the image and entering his or her name. You can also delete photos here. You’ll always be able to come back to this—the Edit Photos page—by clicking on the first tab of the row at the top of the window. When you’re ready to publish, click Publish Now. The other tabs across the top of the window let you add more photos (taking you back to the interactive navigation), organize your photos (which gives you an interactive window to click and drag your photos around), edit the name of your album, and delete the album. The last thing that happens to your photos is automatic. They get shared on the homepages of all your friends. They’ll also be posted on the wall of your Profile page. Your wall includes everything you’ve done, including your conversations with others. Figure 2.11 shows the announcement that I’ve posted new photos. Sharing Your Photos Online ■ 43 Figure 2.10 Interactive navigation to your computer in Facebook lets you click on a photo to upload. Wait—there are a couple more things you can do with an individual photo by clicking on one in an album. In another window, the photo comes up enlarged, with a couple new options of what to do with it. Options are listed below the photo in the lower-right side of the window. Click on the Send button, and you can send this photo to your buddies by email. Click on the arrows, and you can rotate it. The rest of the options listed are ones you can also do when the photo is in an album (and were discussed earlier). Finally, there’s your profile picture. To change it or add one, click on the picture on the homepage. (If you don’t have one, click on the icon for it.) You’ll have two choices on the left side of the new window that comes up—Upload a Picture or Take a Picture. When you click Upload a Picture, you’ll be prompted to browse for your photo. Locate the photo and click Open, and voila—your image will be on the Facebook page. 44 ■ Sharing Your Photos Online Figure 2.11 An announcement is made to your friends that photos have been posted. NOTE Note that, much like MySpace, Facebook is constantly changing and updating their interface. If the steps in this section don’t work quite as explained, it’s likely that Facebook has once again updated the application. Sharing Your Photos Online ■ 45 . to browse for your photo. Locate the photo and click Open, and voila your image will be on the Facebook page. 44 ■ Sharing Your Photos Online Figure 2.11 An announcement is made to your friends. organize your photos (which gives you an interactive window to click and drag your photos around), edit the name of your album, and delete the album. The last thing that happens to your photos. of yourself using your computer’s webcam. Just follow the prompts. As far as uploading pictures, you’re presented with a navigation toolbar on the left and an interactive place to choose your