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Manage Your Nude Photos . . . and ShareThem
Originally posted in my Nude Hiking and Soaking Blog, Dec 6
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, 2008,at:http://nudehiker.blogspot.com/2008/12/manage-your-nude-photos-and-share-them.html  When I head out to the mountains I take a lot of images of thesurroundings and what I'm experiencing. I also a lot of pictures of myself framed within those settings so that I can relive the experience atother times when I don't have the time or luxury to just shuck it all andenjoy nature. At nude resorts, beaches and the like, picture taking islimited out of respect for others. I don't mind being seen naked on the web but others certainly have valid reasons to expect (or desire) privacy.But in the wilderness, amongst all that beauty, I click away like mad.How do you manage all those images? How do you share the ones you want others to see and get some idea of the enjoyment you experiencedthat day?This blog is one way . . . my primary means of sharing a naturist journal. Yet a blog is mainly a writing tool depicting a lineal passage throughtime . . . the reader travels with you as you go from one experience to thenext.
 Seeing
where you've been . . . what experiences excited you in thepast is best done with a photo album. A little bit of planning makes thisprocess easier:1.
 
Organize and manage your photos with a programlike PicasaPhoto2.
 
Sign up for an Online Photo Storage account like Flickr. Give somethought to how you would lay collections and sets out3.
 
Batch editthe imagemetadata of your photos using a program like Exifer or PhotoMe4.
 
Cleanup and enhance your images with your favorite editor5.
 
Consider copyright and the use of your images6.
 
Geo-locate your images using GeoSetter7.
 
Upload your images to Flickr
 
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Organize Images on your Computer
 
PicasaDesktop Photo Organizer
 
(showing the photo editing pane - "warmify" adjustment)
 
Get an Online Photo Account
 My experiences with online photo albums have been mixed in the past,and for me the judgment of 'best' is still out. Blogger (this service fromGoogle) usesPicasa w ith a sizable amount of storage. I've been happy   withPicasa ( both the online and desktop interfaces that do a good job of sorting and categorizing my photos) but recently I've come back to Yahoo's Flickr service as that service matures and provides bettercontrol of who sees content . . . the so-called Permissions and Safety Filters. It used to be difficult to share photos containing nudity on Flickr but now you can set a Safety rating of Safe, Moderate, or Restricted andFlickr will allow access to your images depending on the visitor's statedlevel of content they are willing to view and the Permissions you haveassigned.
 
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Safe, of course, means no one is going to have a problem with the image.Restricted is for stuff that is likely to 'offend' and probably belongs on aporn site and not a widely-popular sevice like Flickr. Moderate is in- between and is fine for images of simple nudity. With images assignedPermissions and a Safety rating when I upload them, I'm pretty muchassured that those who view my images are not caught off-guard by thenudity that I consider an essential part of the journey. I don't like thefact that my images have to be 'filtered' but that's far better than the oldsystem of requiring all nudity to be locked up in private sets viewableupon invitation only. The new system puts the onus on the uploader tocorrectly categorize their photos as Safe, Moderate, or Restricted; andthe viewer setting a Safety Filter. Lacking a viable alternative I can live with Flickr's TOS. With that in mind, a Flickr Pro account in hand and the slick FlickrUploadr program running on my computer I can pretty much open my photos to the world and share. Yeah, sure you can organize all thatcontent into collections and sets, add descriptive titles and shortdescriptions but how does someone out there find an image that they might be interested in? That's where the real power of sites like Flickrcome in in their power to access a little known feature of digitalimages . . . the metadata that is saved by your camera when you take apicture. Flickr accesses (with permission) this data to tag your imagesand make it easier for people to search based on those tags . . . info suchas date the image was taken and location if geotagged. Tags can also beadded interactively to images after-the-fact on Flickr. A neat aspect of Flickr is the ability to geotag your images on a map for a different view of you collections and sets. Another neat (and essential aspect of tags) isthat you can have keywords of what kind of subject matter attached tothe image . . . if an image contains nudity a keyword can so state andallow filtering. An example bears out the possibilities (and yes, thisexample contains nudity . . . this is a nude blog, after all):
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At a friends' studio that is dealing with copyright issues. Photographers are always getting ripped off. There's gotta be something here about copyright protected photo sharing....I found a lot of good things, but this is the trashiest!!

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