Can I publish private albums?

[Guillermo]

I would like to publish some albums only for my familiy and friends.
How can I do it?
Regards.
Guillermo

[msbrad]

Are you meaning getting more copies of them printed?
If so, there are several sites where pages can be uploaded. They then create the book for you and mail it.
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[TonyW]

It is possible to do it in Photoshop Express according to the FAQS in the help section:

Q: How do I share photos with friends?
A: For private sharing, go to My Photos and use the Share Album button at the bottom to send a link to albums you?ve created. If you want to e-mail a link for an individual photo, go to My Photos, select a photo and use the E-mail button at the bottom to send a link to your photo. For something more public, click Albums in the left column in My Photos, then enable the checkbox labeled Share on My Gallery under the albums you want to show off.

Tony

[wcwtp]

I too would like to make photo albums available to invited friends and family only. I cannot find the "share album" button...only the button to share an individual photo. Once the album is placed in the gallery is it then public for all to see? Directions aren't very clear. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Diana]

Here's a site with a free service you can use to share photos and albums with whomever you invite. It's easy to use and if you go with a very reasonable upgrade subscription, it's even customizable. My family uses it for family genealogy.

www.MyFamily.com (http://www.MyFamily.com)

Diana

[wcwtp]

Thanks for the info Diana. I am off to check it out. My biggest concern is privacy. I want to control (as much as possible) who has access to my family photos.

[wcwtp]

I am giving the myfamily site a try, but it is very slow. Since I have already downloaded quite a few photos to the Photoshop Express site, I am still wondering if there is a way to provide limited access only to the albums. It appears that I have to agree to allow all visitors access to the photos if I want to share the entire album. Am I reading this wrong? Does anyone here use the site?

[TonyW]

Actually I just did upload 50 images I took at the weekend of a family event to Photoshop Express (about 60MB worth) and put it in an album and emailed the link to invited guests to view it. You don't have to make it public. The bottom option under Share Album just lets you share with a selected few. Also I see now that anyone who gets the album can download the image if they want. I don't recall that being an option before but I may have missed it.

Be interesting to see how the people I sent it to make out with it. The upload and viewing went very quickly.

Tony

[wcwtp]

Tony, I did like the ease of uploading at Photoshop express. I must be dense....I cannot find the "share album" option, only "share photo". I have no interest in sharing my photos with all of the site's users, so the invite list is very appealing. I just can't figure out how to do it!!

[TonyW]

Kathy: After you have created an album click on the album name to highlight it but don't click the check box next to it. There should now be a Share Album tab active along the bottom. Click on it and you should get the following pop-up that lets you email the link to the album to your contacts without sharing it publicly.

2428

That check box next to the album name is I think confusing. It looks like you ought to check it to make an album active but what that does is make it public.

Tony

[wcwtp]

Aha....thank you so much! I appreciate your help!

[TonyW]

Just as a follow up I circulated the album privately and it worked well. People who have got it have managed to figure out how to run it as a slideshow, view individual images and download any they want either in the original size or smaller versions. I'll be using Photoshop Express again for photo distribution.

Tony

[wcwtp]

I also have circulated an album to family and friends and am waiting to see how they all respond. A couple have been unable to view the slide show. Did you upload high resolution pictures? Mine take a little while to load into the slide show, but the result is worth the wait. This is an easy way of sharing a large collection (wedding shots in this case) with the family. I'm working on adding another album.

[TonyW]

I uploaded approx 3000x2000 pixel jpegs - about 1MB apiece. You probably need high speed to view them and you do need the latest Flash player so could be that was the problem although I think it will prompt you if you don't have it and offer to download it for you. BTW mine wasn't a wedding but a 50th wedding anniversary :)

Tony

[baycruisers]

Flickr allows you to control who can see your albums/pictures. You can designate pictures private, public, "family", or "friends." The downside is that all your viewers must be Flickr members.