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Sharing photos online: how to deal with criticism of your photos

jmeyer — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:00:20 +0000

Our friends at Photoventure recently offered some interesting advice for sharing photos online. Taking criticism is always hard, but knowing how – and when – to accept or dismiss what others say about your images is one of the key lessons to learn in your development as a photographer. Check out their advice below. Do you agree?

Image courtesy of Photoventure

Sharing photos online can be one of the more daring things you do as a photographer. No, really! Posting an image to your photography blog or a photo sharing site is inviting the world to come and speak their mind on your delicate creation. And rest assured, you will receive criticism when sharing photos online.

If you’re new to all this, it can be quite a shock. But rest assured, it’s all part of the process of becoming a better photographer. In fact, learning how to deal with criticism of your photos is one of the most important parts of your development. Here are our tips for dealing with it…

What are the intentions?
Is your critic trying to be helpful or just a snide member of the internet noise machine? Because there are a lot of both out there! If the comment is ‘Dis sux lol’ or even a more eloquent example of false criticism, you can probably disregard it. But if someone is trying to bring up an honest point, it’s worth taking a closer look at what they’re saying.

Be the bigger person
If someone comments on your photos with a snarky tone or is generally disrespectful with their criticism, don’t lower yourself to their level. Be the bigger person and ignore their attitude. Don’t let your emotions colour your response.

What can you learn from it? 
The thing with a photo critique is, whether you agree or not, there’s generally some truth in it. So look at their arguments and see if there’s anything you can learn from it. This lesson may not be valid in this instance, but knowing it could prove useful later on.

Sleep on it
It’s best not to respond to your critics straightaway, when emotions are fired up. Give it a couple hours or more to think about what you want to say. Allow yourself time to go through the steps above and think about what this person is actually saying before you immediately leap into an impassioned defence of yourself. We make better decisions and clearer arguments when we’ve had some time to process them.

Ask for examples
 If someone has suggested you did something wrong, you can show your willingness to listen and learn (which is always a good idea!) by asking them for an example of another way of doing it. Ask them to show you instances of someone who did it better, or differently. Maybe you’ll find they were right. Or maybe it will spur a new creative direction entirely!

Learn to think critically
Learning to accept criticism – both good and bad, valid and unwarranted – helps you learn how to question and criticise yourself. This is perhaps one of the most important lessons any photographer can learn when making images to share with the world. If you have no sense of how good your work is, you’re in no position to improve or expand your photographic horizons.

Dealing with criticism helps you develop important problem-solving skills. Learning how to think rationally helps you develop a better sense of self and what you’re capable of. You’ll learn how to dismiss the bad criticism and embrace the good points.

Don’t take it personally 
As much as we like to believe our images, the spawn of our creativity, are a part of us… they really actually aren’t, you know. A photo is just a photo at the end of the day, and no reflection on you as a person. If I criticise your picture, it’s a statement on your ability to take a good photo in that one instance. It is not a refection of your sense of humour, intelligence or patience and understanding. We all need to remember that.

Should you watermark your photos?

jmeyer — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:00:29 +0000

Recently our friends at Photoventure asked the question, ‘Should you watermark your photos?‘ Watermarking has long been seen as the best way of protecting your copyright – but is that actually correct?

The question of how to protect your artistic work is hardly a new one.

Art historians are continuously discovering lost prints beneath another old master’s paint, and we’re fairly certain that if you were around then and spoke Neanderthal there were plenty of shenanigans among early cave artists.

And just to prove that the more things change, the more they stay the same, the question of whether to use a watermark when sharing photos online remains a burning issue for photographers despite being well into the digital age.

There are many camps in the watermarking debate. Some photographers absolutely watermark everything with impunity – the bigger and bolder, the better. But at some point your impassioned logo starts to detract from the essence of your image. And it’s finding this thin line that has troubled artists from Miss Aniela on back to Michelangelo.

Protecting your images
But let’s get one common misconception out of the way right now. The argument that watermarking photos will protect your intellectual property… well, it doesn’t hold water.

From today’s Clone Stamp tool to the dodgy Renaissance painter’s ‘borrowed’ canvas, it’s always been relatively easy to remove another’s signature from their work.

As a form of protection, a watermark is like bringing a fly swatter to fight Lennox Lewis: it will annoy him, but not really stop him.
Your watermark’s only usefulness in terms of protection is that it provides an extra step for people to go through to steal your work if they’re dead-set on doing so.

For other people with less sinister intentions, like a lazy blogger, it’s simply part of your image, a reflection of you as an artist, so using something subtle will better promote ‘your brand’.

Sharing high-res photos
So let’s stop thinking about watermarks as forms of protection. The only way to protect your IP is to not share your photos online. And we really don’t want to do that, do we? The best way to protect yourself is to refrain from putting high-res versions of your photos on your website or photo-sharing website.

If you keep your uploads to 1000 pixels on its longest edge and 72dpi, it’s going to make it very tough for someone to take those images and print them or use them commercially.

Now, someone may right-click and save that image and present it as their own somewhere else, but there are a number of sophisticated apps now, such as TinEye, that can do a reverse image search and find other versions of your photo that have been posted on the web.

Even a quick search on Google Images can help you track down where your image has been shared.

Keeping your metadata up to date also helps in any internet ‘He said, she said’ debates. But also – and perhaps most importantly – it’s worth accepting the fact that when you post an image online, wherever it may be, you are setting it free in some ways and there are a few unfortunate consequences that come with the vast rewards of sharing photos online.

Promoting your photography
But back to watermarks. Now that we’ve dispelled the common belief that they will protect your image copyright, let’s take a look at where they’re most useful: promoting you.

As we alluded above, most people who do take your photo and re-post it somewhere else aren’t doing so to present your work as their own.

Most often it’s a blogger collating his or her favourite found photos from the web (this is very common on Tumblr photo blogs and Pinterest photography boards), and your inclusion is meant as a compliment.

If the blogger is using proper web etiquette, he or she will have included a link back to where they found your photo, but they don’t always. And that’s why a simple url for your website can be a nice, subtle watermark to include at the bottom of your image.

Watermark the right way
Your watermark should serve as a way to reach out to other photographers and consumers of photography and let them know who made this awesome image, not treat them all as suspected thieves and distract them from your carefully crafted composition.

Let people enjoy your work. And then if they want to see more of it, they’ll know where to find it and who it was made by.

Sure, some people may crop or clone out your watermark. But these people were never going to be your friends in the first place.

What you should be concerned with is all the potential friends you might never make by using a watermark that completely overwhelms your image.

When it comes to watermarking photos, less is more. Now stop hitting us with that fly swatter!

8 ways that organising your photos can reduce your stress

jmeyer — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:00:31 +0000

Our friends at Photoventure have pulled together some of their best photo management tips to help you start organizing your photos in a way that makes more sense for you. What’s more, they’ve kindly allowed us to share them with Digital Camera World readers. Have a look at these simple steps and you’ll never ask where another picture is ever again!

Clutter causes stress. Or, rather, it contributes to it. So reducing the amount of clutter in your life will help decrease the overall chaos of the daily grind – and an easy place to start this process is with something that makes you happy, such as photography. Here’s how you can clean up your photo management process and getting into a routine where you organize your photos in a more sensible manner.

1. Find a central storage point 
The problem you’ve had up until now is that you’re not organizing photos per se; rather, you’re accumulating them. Stop letting photos pile up wherever there is room for them and create one big space for them where everything gets filed. This could be an internal drive on your computer, or an external drive. But any good photo management plan starts with a primary storage point.

2. Get rid of your outdated storage units 
Still using Zip drives and floppy disks? Or more accurately, do you have photos languishing on these devices in the back of a drawer. Buy the necessary USB cables or devices to retrieve your images from these Paleolithic units and then toss them away forever!

3. Wipe your memory cards 
How often do you download the images from your memory card after a shoot? Of course you don’t! No one does. Most people let their cards fill up, then once full, switch to another that’s lying around. Stop this immediately. Copy your photos from these cards into your central storage point (we’ll worry about organizing these photos later) and re-format your card.

4. Clean up any stray images 
Like dust (or raisins, if you have kids), it’s amazing the places images turn up. Next we’re going to want to try and locate any stray images on your computer and move those into your primary folder.

For starters, perform a global search on your computer for files ending with .jpg, .tif, .png or any image file suffix you may use. If any turn up, move them into your central folder.

5. Don’t forget about email attachments 
Did you know that the average person will have 43,000 images in their email account over the course of a lifetime?

OK, so that might not be true. Or maybe it could be, but the point is we accumulate a lot of images in emails over the years. Most of them aren’t worth saving, but the occasional family Christmas snap from your mother or pictures from your child’s pre-school you might want to hang on to. Filter your images by attachments, choose the ones you want to save and then download them into your central folder.

6. Put your photo management software to work 
By now you’ll have a large pile of pictures in one folder and you can rest somewhat easier now knowing that half of the great battle of organizing your photos is done! Now it’s time to put your photo management software to work.

Whatever photo management software you’re using, most – if not all – will organize photos by date. This may not be how you ultimately choose to organize your photos, but it can serve as a nice starting point for making sense of your large pile of pictures.

More sophisticated photo management software can recognize faces and filter your pictures this way. But it’s up to you and what you shoot to decide how your photos should be organized.

If you shoot landscape photography, for instance, you may wish to organize images by location. But filtering them first by date will help you spread that pile out a bit and get a sense of what you have so you can make a more informed decision about photo management strategies.

7. Back it up. All of it
Perhaps the most important step here. Once you have your images stored all in one place, and you’ve organize them in a manner that makes more sense… back it all up so you don’t have to do it again!

We’re far enough into the digital age that we don’t need to explain why you need to back up your files. Just make sure you do it. Regularly. Consider cloud storage if you want to be able to access your back-ups anywhere.

8. Make a photo management strategy… and stick to it
Now that you’ve cleaned up some of your past laziness, work out a photo management strategy organizing photos you take from this point on. There’s no sense in doing everything we’ve listed here if you’re just going to fall back into old routines.

Get in the habit of downloading your images to your central folder straightaway. Perhaps even consider getting one of the wireless SD cards that lets you transfer photos to your computer over Wi-Fi. Whatever it takes to keep those cards clean!

Next, get in the habit of tagging photos in a way that makes sense with your folder structure and how you’ve chosen to organize your photos. Maybe your landscapes are tagged by continent or country, for instance. Some photo management software will even let you pin locations on a map.

You can also start using your software to star-rate your images to help filter out the hits from the misses.

We mentioned facial recognition earlier. If your photo management software does this, set this up! It will save you so much time… and isn’t that what this whole process has been about?

Photography Websites: 5 ways to increase traffic to your blog

jmeyer — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:30:49 +0000

In the final part of our series on building photography websites from scratch, we share the last – and most important – bit of information you’ll need to grow a successful photography website. Below are 5 easy tips you can use to get more traffic to your photo blog.

It’s great to have a photography blog, but if nobody knows about it, you might start to question the point of it. With millions of photography websites out there, attracting some attention to yours can be tricky. By following these simple tips you could increase your viewership fairly significantly.

If you have any other tips for driving traffic to photography websites, feel free to leave them in the comments box below.

1. Offer email subscription
Remembering to visit a blog is often the hard part, but if you offer an email subscription so that fans will be alerted every time there’s a new post then that saves them the bother of having to think too much about it.

All of the main blogging platforms have options for offering email subscription, you just need to add the widget to your blog.

2. Regularly update your website
A sure fire way to get people back, and often, is to regularly have new stuff for people to look at. As it’s your personal photography website nobody expects you to update several times a day, but if your site hasn’t been updated for months, it can start to look a bit neglected.

Similarly, you might find that you have a couple of quiet months followed by a week of shoots. While it’s tempting to stick everything up as soon as you have it ready, consider scheduling posts when you have time so that the blog is updated more frequently, such as weekly.

3. Connect with social media
Facebook and Twitter are huge referrers to websites, so it makes sense to get in on the action. You can publicise your latest post on your own personal Facebook page, but you might want to consider setting up a page dedicated entirely to your photography, called something like John Smith Photography, so that people you don’t know can also follow you on Facebook. With Twitter, it’s up to you whether you use your own account or set up a photography one, but again it’s a good way to publicise the latest posts.

You can link your blog accounts so that it automatically posts to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks as soon as a new photo blog post goes live, meaning you don’t have to think about it too much. Don’t be afraid to Tweet more than once about your latest post, but try to avoid “spamming” the timeline by constantly tweeting about the same thing.

If you can build up a following on Twitter and Facebook, it will be even more effective. Try to tweet about other things, and link to other people’s websites, that way it’s more likely people will think you’re worth following rather than just a shameless self-promoter.

4. Tag your posts
As it’s your own personal blog, you shouldn’t worry too much about being a slave to SEO (search engine optimisation) but there’s still things you can do to help your website get noticed by the likes of Google.

Make sure every one of your posts is tagged with appropriate keywords. So, for instance if you’ve taken pictures in winter, you could tag “winter”, “snow”, “cold”, “winter photography”, “December”. This helps Google pick up your posts, along with allowing other members of the WordPress, Blogger or Tumblr community to find your posts.

When it comes to giving your posts a headline, if you’re hoping to get it seen by search engines, avoid puns and clever titles; be as descriptive as possible – for instance “Winter photography in the Cotswolds”.

5. Network with other blogs
One of the best ways to increase traffic to your site is to become part of the blogging community. Look for blogs with a similar content to yours, read them, and leave comments on posts.

There’s a good chance that if you leave a comment on someone else’s blog, they’ll want to check out yours and before you know it you’ll be part of a community.

However, it’s important to be a valued member of the community, make your comments constructive and valuable, don’t just leave “nice post”, be descriptive about why you like the post and offer feedback.

Finally, when you receive a comment on your blog, make sure you reply to it – even if it’s just to say thanks for commenting. The more you build up a relationship with the readers, the more likely they are to visit again

Photography Websites: the best free blog themes for photographers

jmeyer — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:00:28 +0000

With seemingly thousands of free blog themes to choose from, and happily a lot of them actually are free, picking the right one for your photography website’s intended mood can be a tricky task. The latest in our guide to building photography websites explains how to do it.

You should look out for blog themes that will display your images in the best way possible on your photography website, and it’s also important to think about those which make your home page look inviting – after all that’s where the majority of your visitors will land when they come to your website.

We’ve taken the hard work away from you and found nine of the best free blog themes currently available for free WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr. If you’ve got any top recommendations for free blog themes, let us know in the comments box!

Free WordPress blog themes

You’ll find all of the below themes from the Theme selector in WordPress.

Mixfolio
Specifically designed with photographers in mind, Mixfolio’s homepage displays images in an attractive grid style format, making it perfect for portfolios. Individual posts can be styled in a gallery, slideshow or standard format with images aligned. Images are displayed fairly large, giving them plenty of room to be displayed well.

Modularity Lite
This is a minimalist theme, with a black background which will really make your images pop. This is best for those photographers who don’t want to include too many words with their posts, since white writing on a black background can be difficult to read for some. You have the option to choose a custom header at the top of the page, and a custom background, so you could really personalise this theme to suit your needs.

Twenty Twelve
This is a good compromise between those themes that look great for photographs, and those that look good for words. There’s good reason why this is one of WordPress.com’s most popular themes, it’s simple and elegant and will show off your photographs well while also giving plenty of options for your writing too.

PAGE 1: The best free WordPress blog themes for photography websites
PAGE 2: The best free Blogger blog themes for photography websites
PAGE 3: The best free Tumblr blog themes for photography websites

Photography websites: should you pay for a photo blog?

jmeyer — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:09:58 +0000

Should you pay for your photo blog? The latest post in our series on building photography websites from the ground up answers some of the common questions you may have.

One of the best things about blogging these days is that you can do an incredible amount for free. That said, if you’re willing to part with a bit of extra cash you can get all kinds of upgrades for your photo blog. Here we take a look at the key elements of photography websites for which you may consider making paid upgrades… or those you may not.

Should I pay for a domain name?

Most free blogging platforms will include the name of the platform in the standard address. So for instance, you might have myphotography.wordpress.com or myphotography.blogspot.com.

There’s nothing wrong with that, but having a personalised domain name is easier for people to remember and looks just that little bit more professional. Depending on the domain you want, you can pick them up relatively cheaply these days.

Lots of photographers go for their name as a domain name, which is a good idea as again it’s easy to remember and, especially if you have a less common name, will be easier to buy.

If the name you want is taken, consider adding extensions such as “photo” or “photography” to the name and see if you can get hold of those.

Try to avoid hyphens in a domain name for your photography website, as these can easily be forgotten. If you can, try to get hold of a .co.uk or .com address, as these are the most commonly recognised. Alternatives include .net, .org or .me.

Once you have acquired your domain name, you have a couple of choices. You can either set it up to redirect to your photography website’s address, or you can choose to do something called domain mapping.

The former means that when someone types in your web address to a browser, they will simply be redirected to your current photo blog site. When browsing your site, it will still show as .wordpress.com (for example) in the toolbar.

If you opt for domain mapping, you will usually need to pay extra for this, then every page on your photography website will have the .wordpress (for example) part of the address removed.

WordPress offers this as a paid-for upgrade within its free packages and is pretty quick and easy to do. You can buy domains from a variety of places, such as GoDaddy, 123-reg, and LCN.

PAGE 1: Should I pay for a domain name?
PAGE 2: Should I pay for a photo blog template?
PAGE 3: Should I pay for hosting?
PAGE 4: Should I pay for an email address?

Photography Websites: how to prepare a photo for blogging

jmeyer — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:00:11 +0000

What’s the best way to prepare your photos for sharing online? The latest in our guide to building photography websites explains how to do it.

Before you upload any photos to your photography website, it’s a good idea to go through a few simple steps to prepare them for sharing online.

Most importantly, you will want to resize photos. There are a few good reasons for this, first of all, most photo blogging platforms provide a limited amount of space, and reducing an image’s size is a good way to maximise the amount of images you can include on your photo blog.

Secondly, reducing the resolution of your images makes them less appealing to would-be online image thieves who may visit your photography website. If you wish, you can add a watermark to an image to further deter thieves.

It’s also a good idea to rename your files as well, for a couple of reasons.

Here we look at the various ways to prepare your photo using Photoshop Elements, or if you’re stuck for time, using the free online photo editing website, Pixlr Express.

How to resize photos for your photography websites

For most photography websites, images don’t need to be any wider than 1000 pixels. You’ll also want to change the resolution to 72dpi, since an on-screen display doesn’t need as many dots as a print.

Once you’ve opened your image in the main Photoshop Elements window, there are two ways you can resize the image. Select the Crop tool from the panel on the left.

In the boxes at the top of the screen, enter 1000 pixels in the Width box – you can leave the height box clear. In the resolution box simply type 72. Now drag the cursor across your whole image and hit the green tick.

If you prefer you select Image > Resize > Image Size from the main menu. Type “1000 pixels” in the top box and tick “Constrain proportions” to have the program automatically fill in the height box.

Again, type in 72 in the resolution box. Hit the OK button and your image will be the correct size.

If you have a lot of images that you want to upload to your photography websites in one go, a Batch Edit can save you lots of time.
First of all, gather all of the photos that you want to resize into one folder.

Next, select File > Process Multiple Folders. A dialogue box will appear, in the Source area, navigate to the folder on your computer where the images are stored.

You will also need to choose a destination folder, it’s a good idea to create a separate one from the original folder.

In the Image Size section of the box, enter 1000 pixels and 72dpi. You can leave the height blank again, so long as the Constrain Proportions box is ticked.

If you want to add a watermark to your photos, you can do this within the Process Multiple Files box – simply type in some custom text in the appropriate section of the box.

If you want to have more control over the placement of your watermark, simply open up your image and select the Text tool from the panel. In the Layers panel, reduce the Opacity to around 20% so it doesn’t disturb your image too much.

Remember, when you save your file, it’s a good idea to give it a more unique name than “Image 0001.”

Using a descriptive name such as “Cotswolds-landscapes-01” not only helps with the organisation of your photo blog, but is more likely to be picked up by search engines.

When processing multiple files, don’t forget there’s an option to rename all of the files as well.

Pixlr Express

If you need to quickly resize an image, an online image editor can be a good place to do that. Pixlr Express includes lots of editing functions, but the resize option is what we’re interested in for now.

Once you’ve opened your photo in the editor, click “Adjustment”, followed by “Resize”. You can now enter 1000 pixels in the width box, leaving the height box empty. Once that’s done, simply click save, rename your file and you’re good to go.

Photography websites: the secret to making a photo blog everyone will read

jmeyer — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:00:42 +0000

Photography websites are a great way to showcase your best images and also share with readers the story behind how they were made. Our new series explores the secrets to starting and running a successful photo blog.

In this tutorial, our expert, Amy Davies, reviews some of the top free photo blogging sites on the web. Here, we take a look at some of the top free photography websites for blogging your photos. With these the emphasis was, well, being free, but also we chose photography websites that are easy to use and allow you to get your work out there right away.

We’ll also tell you some invaluable tips for running successful photography websites, such as how to prepare your images, when you should pay for a blog, the best templates for photography websites and tricks for drawing readers and increasing your traffic.

The best free websites for building your photo blog

Starting a photography blog is a fantastic way to share your work, whether it be for fun or for a more serious reason, such as a portfolio. For the uninitiated, a blog is basically a website which you can upload your images and words to and update as frequently as you want to.

The good news is that you don’t have to outlay any cash to get an impressive looking showcase for your best work. Blog providers have come a long way and offer a lot of useful features that can boost your photography website’s appeal. Below are some of the best providers we’ve used.

WordPress.com

One of the most popular blogging platforms out there, WordPress.com allows bloggers to sign up for free. Pretty generous with storage, you get 3GB for free – which should be plenty if you resize your images for the web.

There’s plenty of customisable themes, also available for free, which you can use to make your blog feel more personal. Added benefits include the ability to share connect your blog automatically to social networking sites, so, for instance, a Tweet will be posted every time a new blogpost goes live.

Several of the restrictions of the free blogging platform (WordPress also offers a paid-for version) can be lifted by chargable upgrades. For instance, you can buy more storage space, custom designs, and premium themes.

Free sites always have .wordpress.com in the address – ie. mysite.wordpress.com, but this is something which can be removed via another premium upgrade. There’s lots to appeal to photographers, such as Gallery formats and Slideshows.

Many of the themes on WordPress look great on mobile platforms, especially the iPad, too.

Blogger.com

Google’s Blogger platform is another one of the big boys. It’s been around since 1999 which in terms of the web is an incredibly long time.

Like WordPress, there are loads of free templates to help make your blog look more individual, with the added benefit of being able to drag and drop page elements so you can position them exactly where you want them.

If you already have a Google account, if you’re using YouTube or Gmail for instance, then you will be able to login and start using Blogger right away.

Free blogs have .blogspot.com in the address, but again this is something that can be removed via a paid upgrade.

PAGE 1: Best free photography websites – WordPress, Blogger
PAGE 2: Best free photography websites – Tumblr, Jux
PAGE 3: How to prepare a photo for blogging
PAGE 4: Should I pay for my photography website’s domain name?
PAGE 5: Should I pay for a photo blog template?
PAGE 6: Should I pay for hosting my photography website?
PAGE 7: Should I pay for an email address?
PAGE 8: The best free WordPress blog themes for photography websites
PAGE 9: The best free Blogger blog themes for photography websites
PAGE 10: The best free Tumblr blog themes for photography websites
PAGE 11: 5 ways to increase traffic to your photography websites

How to start a photo blog when you have no money

jmeyer — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:00:55 +0000

There are so many ways to get your shots on the internet that it’s hard to know where to start. Ideally, you want something free, easy and which doesn’t require any software, and we’ve got the perfect thing: a Google blog. Below we’ll show you how simple it is to start a photo blog when you’re on a tight budget.

We’ll also show you step by step how you can add full portfolios to your blog once you have it made. Here’s how to do it…

1 Sign up to Blogger
First, go to www.blogger.com. Click the big ‘Create Your Blog Now’ arrow, bottom right. Choose a name for your blog and check the blog address you want is available.

2 Choose a template
Next, you’re asked to choose a template. You can customise these later to create your own individual ‘look’, but for now we’ll pick the ‘Scribe’ design.

3 Start blogging!
We’ve skipped the screen where you compose your blog entries because the instructions are pretty clear. Instead, we can show you the finished blog with its first post.

Adding a portfolio to your photo blog

Although you can use Blogger to post pictures individually, it’s not really designed for online portfolios. This is where you need another Google service – Picasa Web Albums. You don’t have to be using Picasa itself, but if you are you’ll be able to upload (and update) albums from within the program itself. Here’s how to get involved…

1 Sign up to Picasa
Picasa has a sign-in link in the top right-hand corner of the window. If you don’t already have an account you can use this screen to create one.

2 Choose your photos
Once you’ve done that you can right-click on any folder or album and choose ‘Upload to Web Albums’. You don’t need to worry about resizing images…

3 Upload them
That’s taken care of in the next window, where you can also take care of the privacy options. Choose ‘Unlisted’ or ‘Sign In Required’ if you want to restrict access.

Video: how to share photos on Flickr and Facebook via Photoshop Elements

jmeyer — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:30:53 +0000

Recently we showed you how to make a photo book in Photoshop Elements, but if books are a little too old-fashioned for you, then why not try one of Photoshop Elements’ other cool features?

In the short video tutorial below, we show you how you can use some of Photoshop Elements’ new sharing options to post photos on Flickr and Facebook and start doing more with your photos.

If you’ve tried this, why not let us know how it went in the comments and drop us a link to your image gallery!