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    This document describes how to use Google's Picasa to create a group of compressed photos and then upload them to your web site. There's more info at http://theobco.com/

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    How To Create A Photo Album

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    theobco
    This document describes how to use Google's Picasa to create a group of compressed photos and then upload them to your web site. There's more info at http://theobco.com/

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    Using Picasa to Manage and Create Web Photo Albums Step 1: Download and install Picasa on your computer

    from this link: http://picasa.google.com/ As part of this installation, Picasa will scan your computer for photos.

    Step 2: Click once on the first photo of the album you want to prepare.

    Step 3: Hold down the <shift> key and click the last photo in the album. Notice that all photos end up with a blue highlight.

    Click on the <File> menu and then click <Export Picture to Folder>

    Step 4: Name and Compress your Pictures It is extremely important that you compress all pictures uploaded to the web. Uncompressed pictures take a long time to load.

    Type a name for your album here.

    This sets the number of pixels across. Set to either 640 or 800. This sets the amount of compression. You should usually set this to minimum.

    Add a watermark to all photos if you wish to protect your copyrights.

    Step 5: Picasa will automatically open an explorer window with your photo album in it.

    Double-click the album to view that folder.

    Step 6: Select all the pictures in the album.

    Click once on the first picture in the album.

    Hold down <shift> and click on the last picture in the album.

    Step 7: Right mouse click any picture and then click <Send to>

    Step 8: Click <Compressed (zipped) folder>

    Step 9: Windows will automatically create a compressed folder containing your photos.

    Step 10: Go to your website, login, and from the dashboard click <Photo Albums>

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    Step 11: Click <Create New Empty Album>

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    Enter an album name you will remember.

    Step 12: Enter all pertinent information for the album and then click <Save All Changes>

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    Step 13: Click <Back to album management>

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    Step 14: Click <Upload Photos> This is the photo album number and is important in a later step.

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    Make sure the album is the name of the one you created in Step 12.

    Step 15: Click <Choose File> and then select the album zipped (compressed) you created in Step 9*

    Step 16: Click <Upload Zipped Photos>

    *You will find the compressed folder in /my pictures/picasa/exports/photo_album_1 . Within that folder I choose the zipped folder.

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    Step 17: When your photo upload completes, your screen should look like this:

    Click <Import>

    Wordpress will import the photos into your album. You can confirm your photos uploaded successfully by clicking <photo albums> and then <edit> on the screen that follows. In the next screen (the actual album) scroll down and you will see your photos.

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    Step 18: Were almost done. Weve compressed the photos, uploaded them into an album, now all we need is a page to display them on and a way to get to the page where theyre displayed.

    Click <Add New> page.

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    Step 19: Create a page for the photo album. IMPORTANT: Do all four, A, B, C, and D before clicking publish!

    A. Give the new page a title.

    B. Click <HTML>

    D. Under <parent> click <photos> C. It looks funny, but trust me, it works. Type: %%wppa%% %%slide=05%% I entered an 05 above because my album number (from Step 14) is 5. You should enter your album number. here.

    E. Click <Publish>

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    Step 20: Use your mouse to highlight the link text as shown. Right-mouseclick and choose <copy>.

    Step 21: Click <all Pages>

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    Step 22: Mouse-over your photos page and click <Edit>.

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    Step 23: Click <Visual>.

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    Step 24: Type some text that describes the album.

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    Step 25: Select the text

    Step 26: Click the link button

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    Step 27: Paste the link you copied in Step 20.

    Step 28: Click <Add Link>

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    Step 29: Click <Update>

    Congratulations! Your photo album has now been added to a new page on your web site. Go to the photos page on your website and confirm that the album is there. IMPORTANT: If your photos are NOT in the album DO NOT UPLOAD THEM AGAIN. Turn the page for instructions. 25

    Sometimes the photos will end up in the wrong ablum despite our best efforts. I believe there is a bug in the program. To fix your album:

    Click <Photo Albums>

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    Click <Edit> to find which album the computer put your photos in.

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    Scroll down to see the pictures in the album.

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    When you find the misplaced pictures, A. click the down button

    B. Then click the photo album they should be in.

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    Once youve chosen the proper album for all the pictures, click <Save All Changes>. Go back on the web and confirm that your album displays correctly.

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