Electronic YAHOO Photo Album on the Web
How to do it
Yahoo offers free space (without any limitation) for your electronic photo albums. And you can give everybody worldwide access to see your albums. Or you can limit access to the people you want to see it.
You can make as many different albums as you want to.
Point of departure: that you have your photos in digital form (from a digital camera, a scanner or an e-mail). All uploaded to your hard disk on your PC before you start.
DO AS FOLLOWS:
Chapter I:
OBS: If you already have a Yahoo mail account, you can drop Chapter I and go directly to
Chapter II – using your present Yahoo mail account.
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Open your usual web browser on your PC ( Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or another one)
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Write this address in the address line: mail.yahoo.com - and click
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Next page: click on: “Sign Up Now” on the left side of the page
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Next page: click on: “Sign Up for Yahoo! Mail (the left side)
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Next page: Fill in the scheme coming up:
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your first name: ….
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your last name (family name):……
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preferred content (choose from drop-down menu). Select what you want. (I always select Yahoo! US – which means that you get an address with: .com
6. Gender: male or female
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Yahoo ID: Here you can select whatever name you want for your site (i.e. your
name, your family name, your birthplace, your favourite drink, or whatever). If the name you select is already in use by another Yahoo customer, Yahoo will immediately on the screen suggest alternatives, which you can choose from. Or you can choose another one of your own liking and continue, until the Yahoo system confirms on the screen that it is available
8. Password: choose whatever you like (minimum six characters (letters and/or figures) –
and re-type it in the next box on the screen. And make sure that you remember it
(write it down somewhere)
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If you forget your password:
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security question: choose from the drop-down menu
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write your answer in the next box
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your birthday (straightforward)
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Zip/Postal code (the one in your normal “snail mail” address
If you have selected Yahoo! US above, then you have to indicate a US
Zip code – also if you live outside the US. Invent one – they all have five figures (from 0 to 9)
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Alternate e-mail: you don’t have to write it – but you can give your normal e-mail
address
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Customising Yahoo!: you don’t have to fill this chapter in – but you can, if you want to
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Verify your registration: (this is done to protect Yahoo from machine registrations by robots)
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you have to write the code (letters and figures) in the black box into the open box
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if you write it wrongly, a new black box with a new code will immediately appear – and you write that
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Terms of service: You have to agree (to be able to continue). But no problem in that
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Click: I agree
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Next page: click: Continue to Yahoo Mail
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Now Yahoo will within minutes send you an automatic e-mail to the alternate e-mail address, you indicated above (normally your normal e-mail box)
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When you get that e-mail in your normal e-mail box, click on:
“Important. Click here to activate your new account”
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And NOW you have a new free Yahoo mail account, which you can use for sending
And receiving e-mails, create photo albums (see below), etc.
OBS: If you already have a Yahoo mail account, you can drop Chapter I and go directly to
Chapter II.
Chapter II: How to create your Yahoo Photo Site
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Go back to your normal browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or similar)
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Open the browser by clicking on it
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Type: mail.yahoo.com
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Next page: fill in the box to the right:
* Yahoo ID: this is the one you chose and had accepted (without .com )
* Password: the one you chose
5. Click: sign in
6. Then your Yahoo Mail site will open
7. In the top line: now write: http://photos.yahoo.com/(your Yahoo ID – without .com)
8. Click
9. Yahoo Photos open
10. Click on: Get started
11. Next page: click on: Continue to Yahoo Photos
12. Next page: Create New Album
13. Next page:
* Give the album a name
* Decide who should have access to your album (I recommend: Public –
as it is easiest to handle)
* Click: Continue
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Now you are ready to upload electronic pictures from your harddisk or your CD
Rom (only pictures in JPEG format are accepted)
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Click: Browse - and find the pictures you want to upload – by clicking once on the
one you want – followed by clicking on: Open
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Then the picture is ready to be uploaded by Yahoo
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Do the same procedure for up to 10 different pictures (I recommend to take 4-5 pictures at a time – if you take more the uploading will take a lot of time)
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Now click: Add Now – and wait
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Next page, which arrives automatically: Click: View Album
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Next page: Click: Add Photos
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And you do exactly the same again
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When you have uploaded all the pictures you want in your electronic album you open the album by clicking on it (unless it is already open with all photos visible)
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If you want to re-arrange the order of the photos, you click on: Edit, then on Re-arrange
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When all pictures are visible again, you can pull each photo by pointing at it with the cursor, holding down your left mouse button and drag it to where you want it to be in the final album. If you don’t succeed, try again
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At the end, click on: Done (very important)
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Now you have done it all – your album is on-line. And you can tell everybody about it. They can find it on the web on this address: http://photos.yahoo.com/(your ID)
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Tell them that they first click on the address. When it opens, click on the album. Then click on the first picture to make it bigger. And then click on “See slide show” in the upper right corner – then all your photos will come automatically one after the other with 10 seconds interval
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Tell them also that they can print the photos, download them, send them further on as e-mails, etc. The only thing they cannot do is to make changes in your album. Only YOU can do that – and only when you go in via the Yahoo mail account, you have used to create the photo album
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You can always later add more photos – or remove some. Or the whole album. You are totally in control.
Good luck! It sounds complicated – but it isn’t. Just get going! And let me know, if you have comments and suggestions for improvements.
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
e-mail: niels@skynet.be