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Website of the Day: Pic Resize

GeekSugar — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:00:47 -0700

Thanks to TeamSugar user macgirl for submitting pic resize as a website of the day! Pic resizer is a free online picture service that allows you to crop and resize photos for free. So, if you're backpacking around Australia and need to shrink that picture of you surfing off the coast to forward it to friends, this would definitely be a great tool to use. To learn how to post your favorite sites to the Website of the Day group, just read more

I know that this long list looks scary, but trust me, once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap the second time around.

First of all, join the Website of the Day group
Click "Create and Share!" on the left hand side
Choose "Blog"
Give your photo a Title
Leave the category as "general"
Change the channel to "technology and gadgets"
Add keyword(s) (for example mine for this photo was "Website of the Day")
Click on the "Add Image" link below the "body" box
A popup window will happen - click on "Browse" to find your image on your computer
Once you have the image chosen, click "Submit"
The popup will show you your image, choose size: "normal" - if you want, you can give it a title (which will show up as a caption)
Click "Insert" and the popup will go away
Your "body" box will now have some text in it. Leave it as is. If you want to add some text before the picture telling me why you love the website, do it before the code that has appeared.
Click Submit

So join the Website of the Day group and share information about all of your favorite sites! Yours just might end up on the geeksugar homepage!

Six Things You Can Create With All Those Photos

GeekSugar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:00:15 -0700

There are probably a million and one great things you can do with your library of digital photos. Photo sites like Flickr offer elaborate ways to explore and share pics while free photo editing sites allow you to enhance and resize your little moments in time. But, what should you do with all your photos once they are all spruced up? I suggest you pick your favorites and turn them into multidimensional and tangible works of art.

Make a Photo Cube Out of Six Pics	Create a Photobook With Personal Touches	Don't Just Frame It, Order Wall Art!
Build a Scrapbook	Design a Coloring Book	Enter the Gap Casting Call

How To Upload Pictures To Flickr

GeekSugar — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:21:56 -0800

Last week, I helped you pick out a new digital camera, and showed you how to download your photos to your computer, but which program should you use to manage and share them online? Flickr is still my go-to site for archiving pictures because it allows you to put your pictures on the web and view your friends' archives. Because of the site's added tagging feature, it's easy to categorize your photos and explore photos by photographer, tag, time, text and place.

If you have a lot of photos and exceed the Flickr free account 10MB monthly size cap, using Flickr's web based image upload tool or their Windows application to upload your images can become very tedious. For example, I have a really great camera which takes gorgeous, high quality images around 2MB in size. This means I would only be able to upload 5 high quality images per month. Since I like to get my pictures on the net for my friends and family to view, I resize and save them with Photoshop before uploading.

For step by step instructions on how to upload pics to Flickr, read more

Another way to get pics to your Flickr account is by using email. Enter Picasa and Gmail. Picasa is a great free photo management tool that lets you organize and perform simple edits and manipulations to your photos. I love Picasa because it lets you email directly from its software and you can tell the application to automatically resize your photos before sending them.
Check out the Picasa website for more info and to download.

Uploading Pics To Flickr

Login to your Flickr account. Near the bottom of the page click on the link that says Upload by Email.
Copy the email address that is presented to you. This is a personalized email address that you can use to send photos to your Flickr account.
Now, open Picasa and click on the Tools>Options>menu.
On the Email tab, choose Use my Gmail Account then set the picture size (using the slider) to whatever size you want. This is the size that Picasa will scale your image to before sending it.
Click the OK button and you’re ready to start sending images to Flickr.
Click on the image that you want to upload then click on the Email button near the bottom of the Picasa application window. Picasa will ask you to enter your Gmail login details.
In the To field, enter the email address that Flickr gave you.
Enter the title of the picture in the subject line. This is the title that Picasa will use when it displays your picture.
Enter the description of the photo in the message area. This is the description that Picasa will use when it displays your picture.
Finally, click the Send button and the photo is uploaded to Flickr.
The only limitation with this method is that you cannot tag the image. You will need to login to Flickr to do that.

If you need more help, check out Uploading Flickr Photos from the Flickr website.

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