Photobucket Tutorial: Creating an Account

Series Summary

Photography is the practice of making images by exposing film or another medium to a timed flash of light. Advertising is the practice of convincing people to buy a particular brand of a particular product. Of course advertising seeks to depict these products in the best possible way, so the art of photography is a crucial element of advertising campaigns. Yet with the advent of Internet commerce, many personal and small-time sellers don't have the budget or even the need for professional photographs. They just want to take very basic pictures of their products so Internet users can get a look at them. Photobucket is an Internet site used to display photographs and videos for sites such as eBay, MySpace and Facebook. Subscribers can also display photographs of their family and friends. In this free video series, a professional web designer demonstrates how to use Photobucket. Learn how to upload photos, edit photos, create albums and create slideshows, as well as how to add special effects to photos and adjust privacy settings.

Video Transcript

"Photobucket is a registered trademark of Fox Interactive Media Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Fox Interactive Media Incorporated. In this lesson I'm going to teach you how to setup an account at Photobucket. First thing you're going to want to do obviously is go to photobucket.com, and then you're going to need to click the join now button, there's a couple of places where you can click, there's one here on the top right, and one here in the middle of the screen, I'm going to click there. And it's going to ask you to input a user name, you can put whatever user name you want. And then you're going to need to choose a password for yourself, and you need to put that in twice, and then click next step. Then it's going to ask you for your name, go ahead and put that in here. And you need to put in your e-mail address, and you're going to need to put in your gender, and your birthday, as well as your postal code. And then you're going to need to put in this code right here, it's going to show you; mine it says aat2ta. And it's going to be different when you put it in, but just put that in there, and click, "I accept, sign me up", there, and you're all done. And it's going to give you an advertisement here, but if you click here, it's going to take you directly to your album. And this is your album. So that's how you setup an account at photobucket.com."