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 photo
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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
Figure 2.9 MySpace’s interactive navigation to upload photos.
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MySpace limits photo sizes to less than 5 MB each
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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
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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
Trang 3I’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
Figure 2.10 Interactive navigation to your computer in Facebook lets you click on a
photo to upload.
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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
Figure 2.11 An announcement is made to your friends that photos have been posted.
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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