Photo is KeepandShare's photo application, which allows you to upload and organize photos into online albums with all of the benefits of KeepandShare's safe and easy group sharing - you always control who can view your albums. Photo features include extremely high resolution uploads and downloads, fast bulk photo uploading, photo hosting and URL linking, photo editing, tagging and descriptions, very fast album viewing, and 5 different album views. You can get a quick overview of the photo application from these 3 screen shots.

First, do any cropping or red-eye correction on your photos on your PC. Then log into your KeepandShare account and click on the gray 'Photo' tab to enter the photo application. Then click on the 'Upload Photos' command on the blue bar. In the next screen, browse your PC-based folders to select photos, clicking on the 'Add' button to put photos into the bottom pane. Once you've selected your photos to upload, click on the orange Upload button. When the upload completes we suggest you click the blue 'Create Album Now' button to automatically create an album with all the photos you just uploaded.

The first time you click on 'Upload Photos' you should be prompted to approve the installation of the KeepandShare's 'Aurigma Image Uploader' (it will be either an ActiveX or Java program depending on your browser and operating system). Just follow your browser's instructions to install the 'Aurigma Image Uploader' and wait for the uploader to install. If you say no, and later try it again and it does not give you the option of installing the uploader, then simply close all your browsers and restart a new browser window and log into KeepandShare again. Then try the Upload Photos command again. You should be prompted to install the uploader. Alternatively, you can also go to the Document application and try the Upload Files command - installing that program will also get the Upload Photos screen installed.

You can upload photos in any of the three most common photo file formats: GIF, PNG and JPEG. For JPEG files, the file extension can be either '.jpg', '.jpe' or '.jpeg'

Just underneath the 'Photo Library' button you'll see how many photos your account is allowed to hold and how many you currently have in it. If you are a paid subscriber, you can upload up to as many as 100,000 high resolution photos into your account. Free account are limited to 1,500 photos. Paid subscribers are allowed to upload many more photos at a time, and also gain advanced commands to download and copy photos and albums. Click here for details on paid subscription plans.

In the left column click on 'Photo Library (view)' to display your photo library. All your photos will then be displayed. You can further select your photos by searching by keyword or tag or month.

Photos are uploaded and will appear in the same order that the photos are placed in the bottom pane of the photo uploader. If you add or drag photos 1-at-a-time into the bottom pane, you can precisely control the order. If you give the 'Add All' command, the photos are copied from the top pane to the bottom pane in the same order. If you are using IE 7 or IE 8, you can right-click in the top pane and choose 'Arrange Icons By' to change the order of the top pane before giving the 'Add All' command.

Click on the 'Photo Home' command in the album's top bar. Or click on the gray 'Photo' tab.

When you click on the gray Photo tab you are at the top level of Photo and the left column displays two bold titles: 'Albums' and 'Photo Library'.

Photo Library gives you access to your entire photo collection. All of your uploaded photos are always available in your photo library. Each photo exists just once and can have a title and description and tags assigned to it.

Albums, in turn, are a grouping of photos. Photos can occur in more than one album. Deleting a photo from an album does not delete it from your photo library. Conversely, deleting a photo from the photo library removes it from all albums.

Albums provide five different styles of viewing. When you are editing an album you can pick the default view style. But when a friend is viewing your album, they can always switch between the styles. As well, in all views you can pick whether you want to view your photo in Small, Medium or Large sizes. The five album styles are:

• Light Table: Click on a 'slide' on the light table and it will be displayed at full size. Click on the full size to return to the light table. Once a slide has been viewed it is dimmed on the light table so you can track your progress.
• Film Strip: Click on any of the film strip's small thumbnails and that photo is displayed below the film strip.
• Blog: Photos are displayed in a long, scrolling document-like column, complete with all photo titles and description text. A great way to quickly 'scroll through' an entire photo album.
• Scatter Blog: Provides visual variety in a long scroll of photos by doubling up every other row into 2 smaller, side-by-side photos.
• Slide Show: A classic slide show mode. Start an automatic slide show by clicking the green 'Start slide show' link at the top right of the photo. Or use the side arrows to manual pace the slide show.

Once a photo is uploaded into your photo library it is available to be inserted into any KeepandShare document or share page. Just edit the document and click on the 'Insert Photo' icon on the icon bar, then click on the size links (T, S, M, L) under the photo you want to insert.

Yes. Click on 'Photo Library (view)' to access your collection, then click on the blue 'Edit' link next to a photo. You can add tags to the photo, specify a Title and Description. You can also rotate the orientation of the photo. You can also edit photos from within an album by first clicking 'Edit' on the album, then clicking the gray 'Edit Photo' button.

Since accounts are limited in the number of photos they can hold, you may want to periodically 'clean up' your account by deleting unwanted photos. When you are editing an album, the delete photo command only deletes that photos from that particular album, but the photo is still in your photo library.

To permanently delete a photo from your account, you must delete the photo from the Photo Library: click on the 'Photo Library' button in the left column. Click on the blue 'Edit' link above the photo you want to delete. Click on the gray 'Delete Photo' button and this photo is permanently deleted from the Photo Library and all albums. Your account photo total is also reduced by 1.

Since free accounts are limited to 1,500 photos, if you want to 'make more room' for new photos, just be sure to permanently delete your photos.

Tags are short descriptions you can apply to one or more photos. We suggest keeping them to just 1 or 2 words in length. For instance, if you have a child named 'Memphis', you might apply the tag 'Memphis' to all photos of him. Then you can search across your photo library to display all Memphis photos, irrespective of when you took the photo or which albums it might be in. Of course, you can assign more than one tag to a photo. For instance, a photo might have the tags 'Memphis', 'Beach Trip' and 'Vacations'.

You can apply tags whenever you are editing a photo. Create tags by clicking on the 'New Tag' command to the right of the photo. Edit your list of tags with the 'Edit Tags' button.

Display your photo library by clicking in the left column on 'Photo Library (view)'. Then, in the left column, in the search box click on the 'Tag' pull down and choose the tag you want to search for.

Yes, whenever you are editing a single photo, the tag commands on the right side allow you to apply the tag to the entire current collection. For instance, if you are editing a photo as part of an album, the tag would be applied to all the photos in the album. Alternatively, if you were viewing photos uploaded during the month of May from your photo library, then the tag would apply to all of that set of photos.

Type text into the keyword field and click on search. Keywords are found in either the title or description fields. If you want to search through all your photos, make sure the other search parameters such as 'By Month' and 'Select a Tag' are cleared.

Edit your photo by clicking on 'Photo Library (view)' to access your collection, then click on the blue 'Edit' link next to a photo. Then choose one of the 4 blue 'head and shoulders' icons to change the photo to that orientation. Then click 'Save and Exit'.

Yes, click the blue 'Edit' command under an album and you will see KeepandShare's standard 'Share With' controls. Once you have set them, click on Save and Exit. To learn more about sharing see the KeepandShare help system on sharing, and our videos on sharing.

Although you can copy out URL links that point to individual photos, you cannot control the private sharing of individual photos. You should organize photos into albums, and then set the 'Share With' controls on your albums to control who can see them.

Yes, any photos in your account can be accessed by their URL. To get a photo's URL, edit the photo and copy out one of the 3 'photo links' depending on the size to which you want to link. You can then paste this link into your blog or website.

Yes. KeepandShare is a great way to host photos or albums for your blog or web page. Just copy out the photo URL link or album URL link and paste it into your email, blog or web page.

Here's how to find the links. When you view an album, a gray box titled 'Album Link:' is below the album view, so just scroll down to see the gray box. Whenever you view photos in an album, there are also 3 gray boxes titled 'Photo Links'. These 3 photo links are for the small, medium and large sizes of the photo. Just click in a gray link box and copy its link to the clipboard (you can copy with 'Ctrl-C' in Windows).

For linking to albums, don't forget to set the sharing on the album, since albums are protected by KeepandShare's secure private sharing. E.g., set the 'Share With' control to 'Public' to allow an album to be viewed by any web visitor without them needing to log in to a KeepandShare account.

Yes you can. Just copy the gray 'Embed' code boxes at the bottom of the screen whenever you are viewing an album or photo. Then paste this code into your web page (for embedded albums, don't forget to set the sharing to 'Public').

All photos are uploaded at a size of 1800 pixels, if your original file was this size or larger. This provides enough resolution to fill all but the very largest computer screens, and allows for excellent photo prints at sizes up to 8x10.

You should upload the largest version file of each photo. Normally this would be the original file you took off your camera. KeepandShare will take your large orginal file and do compression and image optimization to create a gorgeous 1800 pixel for uploading into your KeepandShare account.

Full size photos are maximum 1800 pixels in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Large photos are maximum 780 pixels vertical. Medium are maximum 518 pixels vertical. Small are maximum 318 pixels vertical. The horizontal dimension depends on the aspect ratio of your original photo.

All upgraded accounts provide advanced commands for downloading photos both to you (the logged in user) and to your friends who are viewing your photos. The advanced commands include downloading an entire album as a ZIP file to your PC, or copying photos and albums from another person's account into your account. Click on a photo to view it and then click on the blue 'Download' link at the bottom of the photo to download it at its full 1800 pixel size. Click here for details on paid accounts.

Yes, your friends can add photos to albums in your account. First, you must give your friends both access to view and edit your album by using the Share With controls (be sure to check the edit box to give them edit rights). Then your friends can view your album and click on the large yellow 'Edit' button above your album, which will place them into the album editor on your shared album. When your friends click on the gray 'Insert Photo' command, they can upload photos into your account/album, or they can insert photos from their own account.

Since Photo supports very large image sizes for both uploading and downloading, yes, it is very suitable for printing. Simply download the images you want to your PC and use your favorite photo printing methods.

When viewing photos in an album, at the bottom of each photo is the 'Show Full Size' command. Because full size photos are so huge, when you click on this link, KeepandShare will open a new window and display the photo at the largest available resolution, which typically more than fills your browser window.

KeepandShare photos are uploaded and stored at a higher resolution than many web photo sites, giving you gorgeous high quality online images and great printing options. Of course, it takes a while to upload all those photo files at high resolution. The exact speed of the uploading depends on your particular Internet speed.

Yes. Whenever you click on 'Photo Library (view)' and your are viewing individual photos on the right side, just click on a photo and a pop-up viewer appears. You can choose the size of the pop-up viewer and move to the Next or Prev photos.

There is no limit to the number of photos you can place in an album. You can add additional ones at any time by editing the album and using the 'insert photo' command. In theory you could have many hundreds of photos in an album. But we recommend breaking such large topics up into multiple albums. It will make the albums more accessible for your viewers. E.g., If you have 300 photos on a trip to Egypt you might break it into 3 or 4 albums such as 'part 1', or by subtopic.

Click the blue 'Edit' under an album to enter album editing. You will see the album's photos displayed in a numbered row across the top. E.g., the photos are numbered 1,2,3... To move a photo, click on it, for instance, click on photo 5. Then, on the left side choose the new position for the photo by clicking the 'Image Order' drop down and picking a new position. The photo is instantly moved.

Edit the album. In the Edit Album screen, in the top left corner, right under the words 'Edit Album' there is a drop down that lets you pick which folder this album is stored. Pick a different folder and click Save and Exit.

Yes, it's easy. Any video that you've uploaded to a video streaming service such as You Tube can be easily embedded into an album. First upload your video to favorite video service. Then copy the 'embed' code from the video service to your clipboard. Then Edit your KeepandShare album and select the 'Embed a Video' button and paste the code into the box.

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