Simple Photo Sharing
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There was once a time before digital cameras. Hard to believe now that there seems to be a camera built into just about everything: cameras embedded in cell phones, laptops and PDAs complement the huge range of standalone digital cameras themselves. The ease of taking pictures in the digital medium means that many people now have thousands upon thousands of priceless pixilated memories stored across a wide variety of devices. It used to be that when you wanted to share pictures with friends and family you would haul out that big heavy cardboard box of albums, falling apart from overuse, and spend several hours pawing through them. Sadly sharing and viewing digital pictures was not always that simple. Until now. At ZooFoo we believe that sharing your photos should be . There is no need to wade through dozens of useless features only to generate a cluttered gallery covered with ads and reduced resolution images. We designed this site with simplicity in mind. ZooFoo is intended facilitate three primary tasks: Uploading Photos, Managing Photos and Sharing Photos.
Loading PhotosBefore you can share your photos electronically you first need to put them online. There are three simple ways to upload to ZooFoo: from your desktop, from your browser and from your email.The most powerful way to load images to ZooFoo is using our Windows or Mac>loading applications. Designed to install quickly and easily these loaders are simple yet powerful tools which allow you to easily load a single image or a complex, organized file structure with thousands of pictures. We have developed a custom technology which retains your original file structure even after uploading. This means that if you have taken the time to organize your pictures on your desktop ZooFoo will retain your organization even after loading to our storage server. The next way to load photos to ZooFoo is via email. You get a secret email address with your account. Any image attachments on emails sent to this secret address will be stripped out of the email and loaded onto your ZooFoo Account. Need to get a photo from your cell phone to the web? No problem, simply email it in! Sick of those forwarded emails with huge image attachments that take up more space then your screen can display? Simply forward those emails to your secret address and view the images through your ZooFoo gallery. The third simple way to get photos onto ZooFoo is directly through our website. Simply login to your account and select "Upload Photos" in the Photo Manager. This will take you to a loading page where you can browse your computer's hard drive to locate the image you are looking for and load it directly to the site. Whatever your preferred method for loading your photos to the web ZooFoo makes it cleaner, simpler and easier than any other site.
Managing PhotosNow that you have started to get your photos online the next step is to manage and organize them. Having thousands of pictures is awesome. However if you can't find the picture you are looking for all those other pictures suddenly seem just to get in the way. Built using Adobe's Flex platform, ZooFoo has designed an intuitive management tool which lets you drag and drop to organize photos and build custom albums. The manager also lets you add tags, labels, descriptions and other information to the photos themselves.Your organized file structure - retained during the loading process - now appears as albums (folders) with sub-albums (sub-folders). Photos are intelligently renamed based on the folder in which they were uploaded. These albums can be shared with the world or kept private for yourself. When you are ready to populate a new album, grab the photos you want to fill it with, drag from them right inside the browser and watch the album grow. As you create new public albums to share they are instantly made available online. As you add more photos to an album via the web manager these too are instantly reflected online.
Sharing PhotosNow that you have successfully loaded and organized your images the real fun begins: Sharing photos! Unless you are taking pictures for research or your own personal use most people take photos to share. Sharing photos is the ultimate purpose of taking them and digital photos are becoming easier to share than ever.Photos you have loaded to ZooFoo are automatically placed in public galleries that can easily be linked to. It's much easier to email Aunt May the web address for your photos than it is to send her an email full of huge image attachments. If you don't want to share all your photos with the world you always have the option to make an album private. Photos are for looking at, not for being distracted from. Most photo sharing sites seem to think that the cluttered gallery layout with ugly background graphics are what people want to see. Not so! People want to see the pictures that they are trying to see, plain and simple. To this end we keep our galleries as simple and clean as possible and of course ZooFoo never displays advertisements or unwanted links next to your photos. You purchased a nice camera. You paid for the ability to take extremely high quality, high resolution photos and you deserve a way to display them well. When serving a photo to a web browser, ZooFoo intelligently selects the image size most appropriate for each given monitor and displays them as large as possible. Being displayed at a larger size helps an image look its best. Another photo sharing tool provided by ZooFoo is called PhotoFriends. PhotoFriends is a new social networking tool. Add one of your photos to your PhotoFriends feed and it will show up in the feeds of all your friends. Likewise if a friend ads a photo to their feed it will show up in yours! PhotoFriends lets you keep in touch with all of your friends who use ZooFoo. By showing the latest updates from your friends you can stay linked to the lives of the people you care about. PhotoFriends makes it a snap to take an image from one of your galleries and instantly share it with all of your friends. Besides PhotoFriends you can share photos using a variety of Custom Albums. Create an album in the Manager, populate it with pictures and you are good to go. These albums can be linked to and the links will remain unchanged even as you add more photos to the albums over time. You are also given the option to host photos from your ZooFoo account by generating an automatic embed code to help you quickly and easily share embedded pictures to your website or blog. |