Pictures are like memories: They're better when shared with someone else. And with the increased popularity of
digital cameras and camera phones, people are sharing their memorable photos more than ever using online albums
and personal web logs.
With so many hosting services available free of charge, it's easy to start your own online album or diary. We'll
show you how HP Photosmart Share can make it simple to share your photos online, and introduce you to other ways
to make your images available to friends, family, and even the whole world.
Online albums
Online photo albums are a convenient way to share pictures on the Web. HP now offers an easy-to-use service called
Snapfish that lets you share and store photos
online. With Snapfish, you can share individual pictures or entire albums with friends, and allow them to order prints of
their favorite photos.
Getting photos from your computer to Snapfish takes just a few simple steps. To
upload pictures, just log in, click
"upload photos," create an album, select pictures, and click "upload selected photos." You can also send photos to the site
from your e-mail account or a camera phone.
If you've taken pictures with a film camera, you can mail your roll to Snapfish—they'll develop it for you and make
the images available online. You can store, edit, organize, and share your files and also create photo gifts like mugs and
calendars.
HP Photosmart Share
lets you quickly and easily download, organize, and e-mail photos, and send them to an online finishing service or photo
sharing website, too. Even while you're traveling, you can share snapshots with your family and friends across the room or
around the world.
Using an on-camera menu, you can select up to 34 destinations for your picture—from an e-mail address to a printer. Once
your camera is hooked up to a PC or camera dock, the images are sent automatically. Using HP Photosmart Share to e-mail pictures
to family and friends means you can do it without sending huge file attachments—this guide,
Sharing photos via e-mail,
shows you how.
HP Photosmart Share is included with HP Photosmart Premier software,
which comes with many HP products—or you can download
HP Photosmart Essential for free. This version of the software
lets you find, manage, edit, create, and share images in just a few clicks.
Web logs, or blogs, are sites containing short, frequently updated journal-like postings. Most let you share personal thoughts
and links as well as images. Blogs that are completely photo-focused are called photoblogs.
In photoblogs, each photo is arranged by date. It's like a diary told in pictures instead of words. Unlike a picture gallery
or online album, in which a collection of images is sorted into different categories or pages for easier viewing, a photoblog
is always in chronological order.
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