Friday, July 20, 2007

Web-Based Photo Editing and Sharing

Why are all of our pictures in a box in the basement (or the digital equivalent)? Why don't we assemble them, and share them with friends?

For science teachers, have you wanted to share some of your stunning cellular photographs with your students, but you just can't waste any class time? Education teachers, want to share pictures of past projects?

This may be the software for you. New photo editing and sharing software allows the user to share their award-winning shots with anyone they choose. Do you want to be one of them?

Google's version of this is called Picasa. Follow the link, and click on 'How does this work?'

Yahoo's version of the software is called flickr. Follow the link, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to 'Take the Tour'. Or you can watch this video.

Notice that there are differences between Google's Picasa and Yahoo's flickr. For example, Picasa only works with PC's, while flickr also works with MAC.

If you are using this to share photos, try uploading them (be sure to select who can see them, and not to leave the default set to 'anyone'), then sending the view link. This is much more efficient use of storage space than sending all of your photos to your students, friends and family via email.

If you want to add some of your photos to the blog that you have created, there are two ways that you can accomplish this task. In the 'New Post' there are some editing features at the top left of the text screen. The square button that looks like a photo is the link for adding photos. This will open a new page that will allow you to select an image from your computer, or from a URL. If you have added pictures to your flickr or Picasa accounts, you can provide the link to the picture in your album.

Click here to go to the next article.

No comments: