Snapfish, a production of the folks at Hewlett-Packard, provides services for both digital and film photographers. You can upload digital photos or mail rolls of film for them to develop and upload to your online account. Either way, your photos end up in Snapfish albums, which you can share with friends and family by sending out email invitations. HP also gives you ample opportunity to part with a few bucks by slapping your photos on prints, posters, books, calendars, and so on.
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In Shutterfly, the procedures for moving and copying photos between albums start out the same as moving them within albums as described in the previous section. First, you select photos by adding a checkmark, and then choose from the list of commands at the right of the screen.
Moving, Copying, and Deleting Photos
To move or copy photos, click the “View & enhance” tab to see all your Shutterfly albums. Then follow these steps:
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Shutterfly is an online photo service that lets you store, share, and print your digital snapshots. Shutterfly gives you three ways to upload pictures. You can transfer photos one-by-one using your Web browser. With the help of a browser plug-in, known as the Picture Upload Assistant, you can upload several photos at once. Shutterfly also provides a standalone utility program called Shutterfly Express, which you can use to perform minor edits and then upload photos with a few clicks.
Note: At this writing, Shutterfly was testing out a new programcurrently saddled with the ungainly name “Shutterfly
Photo Organization Client”that will eventually replace Shutterfly Express. The new program will be a full-fledged, PC-based image editor and photo organizer.
To get started, go to
www.shutterfly.com and sign up for a free account.
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Sooner or later, you’ll want to rearrange the photos in your online albums. Perhaps you’re creating a slideshow for friends to see, or maybe you’re collecting otter photos for a gift calendar (it happens). You simply drag an album’s photos to put them in the order you want and EasyShare uses this new arrangement for things like slideshows and photobooks.
Tip: To create a new album, you can do it when you first upload the photos, as described in the previous section. Or, to create a new album from photos already in EasyShare, make copies of the photos and then create a new album to hold them .
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Kodak EasyShare gives you two ways to put your photos online. If you use the EasyShare software to organize your photo collection on your PC (as discussed in the previous chapter) then you can upload your pictures from the same window without missing a beat (Figure 2). Then, there’s EasyShare Gallery (www.kodakgallery.com), the online component. This site lets you upload photos using any Web browser, which is great when you’re on the road or have your browser window open anyway.
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Why should I put photos in a Picasa Collection when I can just keep them in Folders? For that matter, how is a Keyword different from a Labeland how on earth do I know when to use each?
Lots of Picasa neophytes find its features’ names confusing, but each gives you a uniquely useful organizing tool. Here’s a cheat sheet:
1. Folders.
Actually, Folders aren’t a Picasa feature at all. The folders you see in Picasa mirror the folders already on your computer. As you can read below, Picasa’s helping you organize your photo folders right in its own attractive window.
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You desperately need the photo you took three years ago of the wild turkeys in that field near Woodacre. You can picture it in your mind, but you can’t find it on your computer. It’s time to put Picasa’s search tool to work.
Indicated by a magnifying glass icon, Picasa’s search box lives in the Library View’s upper-right corner. To start a search, type a word in the box. As you type, Picasa looks for a match in the photo file’s properties.
Picasa’s search tool also uses text from features like collection names and label names. So when you enter search terms, Picasa compares them to a fairly broad number of properties, including:
- Filenames
- Captions
- Folder, Label, and Collection names
- Picture color
- Camera details
- Dates
- Keywords
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Have you ever wanted to find all the photos that have something in common, no matter when or where you took them? In Picasa, you can create keywords, attach them to photos, and then use the keywords to pull up those photos later. For example, if you apply the keyword “Canada” to your Montreal vacation pictures when you import them into Picasa, you’ll have an easier time locating them later.
Keywords are one of the properties that Picasa’s search tool reads when it’s looking for photos. They stay with your photo, even if you shuffle the photo into different folders.
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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to file a single image in several different folders at the same time? You could file that Puerto Vallarta sunset under Mexico, Vacation 2006, and Perfect Sunsets. Then, years later, no matter which folder you search, there it is. You can’t do that with Picasa’s folders, where a photo can be in only one folder at a time. But by giving it a label, you can make a single photo appear in multiple folders, increasing your chances of finding it when you’re browsing. Picasa’s labels work much like the album or category features found in other programs.
When you assign a label to a photo, Picasa displays it in a special folder bearing the label’s name. At the top of the Folder List is a collection called Labels. Folders in the Labels collection look and act just like other folders, with the following exceptions:
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a photo filing cabinet with an unlimited number of drawers? Then, anytime you need to create a new category for your photo folders, you can devote an entire drawer to the subject. It doesn’t matter how full or empty any of the drawers are, because you can always create another drawer if you need it. Picasa’s collections let you create an unlimited number of “drawers” to organize your photo folders.
Picasa automatically creates its own collections as needed using names like Labels, Folders on Disk, Exported Pictures, and Other Stuff. You can’t rename or delete these collections, but you can move folders in and out of all of them (except for Labels).
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