How to Share Photos and Music With Dropbox
Dropbox allows you to share photos and music with your friends. It also allows you to synch your files between different computers. With the ability to synch photos between computers and the online storage created at Dropbox, you have ample backups for your images as well. Here is how to use Dropbox for sharing photos and music.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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At Dropbox you get 2GB of storage free. As of this writing, a 50GB account is $99 a year.
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Go to Dropbox and open an account, then download software to install on your computer. The software works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Installing the software creates a folder on your computer called Dropbox. There's a folder in the main folder called Photos. You can create folders of your own inside the Photos folder to keep your photos organized by topics.
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These are the photos that will be shared on the Internet from your Dropbox account, so it is a good idea to optimize them for the Web. Images can be cropped and optimized to reduce the file size using many tools such as Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro and GIMP (a free, open-source photo editing tool). If you are using the free 2GB plan you can store many more optimized photos than untreated photos.
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Once your photos are ready to share, right-click (control click on a Mac) on the folder and choose Copy to public gallery from the menu. When you do this a URL is created. Each gallery or item can have its own URL, which you can see from your computer.
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Paste the URL into your browser's location bar to see the photos online. You can also send this URL to anyone you want to share your photos with.
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Tips & Warnings
You can undelete photos should you change your mind about ones you already deleted by going to your online storage where copies of different versions of a photo and deleted photos are still available.
