How to Share Yahoo! Photos by Email

Yahoo! Photos makes sharing photo albums with friends easy. Choose from three different ways to do it—via email, Yahoo! Instant Messenger or by changing privacy settings on your photo albums.This article will show you how to share photos with friends via email.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Yahoo! account
• Image files in .jpeg or .jpg format to upload and share
• Computer with Internet access

Add People to Your Friends List

1. Click the “Add Friends” button on the Home page.

2. Add people to your Friends list by entering their Yahoo! ID names into the search field. If you are adding more than one at a time, separate their names with commas.

3. Click the “Add” button when you are finished adding people to your list.

Share Photos With Friends Via Email

4. Click on an album name in your list.

5. Click “Share” on the taskbar, then select “Album” to share the entire album. Alternatively, drag and drop photos you want to share into the photo tray and click “Share” to share only those photos.

6. Click “Share by Email.”

7. Add the email address of your friend in the “To” field. If you want to add a personal message, enter it into the field labeled “Enter optional message here.”

8. Click “Send” to send your invitation.

Tips & Warnings

• You can share individual photos both from multiple albums and from the “All My Photos” collection. The photo tray will retain the photos you’ve selected as you move between different albums.
• If you want to share just one photo, click on the photo to select it, then choose “Share,” and “Share by Email” under the Photos heading.
• To share photos with multiple people simultaneously, separate each email address with a comma and space. Do not add a comma after the last email address on the list.
• If you share photos in this way but later decide you want to make them private, you'll need to delete the photos from your account and then re-upload them.
• People who share photos with each other are automatically added to each other's friends lists.
• Because Smart Albums collections and entire “All My Photos” collections change over time, you can't share them via email. This is designed to prevent your inadvertently sharing photos you want to keep private. However, you can still share individual photos from these collections.
• Your photos will be viewable by email recipients for up to 90 days from the date of your email invitation. Additionally, even if they’re labeled private, your photos are viewable if your recipient forwards the message.

[Twinpines]

on 12/9/2008 on my laptop I can't e-mail certain things from certain cites. There is an error code. It appears something isn't coordinated. I may have done something wrong when I had to set up my laptop. There was some direction asking about a http or pop or something similar. Any help would be appreciated

[george85260]

on 8/21/2008 [e-mail] wants to know--can my address book serve as my friends list just as well