Uploading photos for blogging

Miss Terra from DST (she’s the queen of the newsletter there) asked about a quick way to post photos & layouts to her blog. This isn’t a one click, but in playing with the widget, I think digiscrappers may REALLY like it for there desktop too.

I can feel another series coming on! I’ll do a 2nd post about how to take fast screenshots to put on your blog. Both of these are dependent on your having a Yahoo account & use Flickr.

Now if you haven’t heard, my sister will tell you how much I love widgets. (she’s probably rolling her eyes about now!) So this is a set of widgets available from Yahoo. First I’ll show you how it works, then how to get it.

What it is - the widget is a picture frame on your desktop with a nice black frame:

• it can be resized & made large enough to almost fill screen
• slideshow of photos from Flickr or another photo source
• lots of flexibility - you can view your photos or anyone’s (it’s cool!)

How do you upload photos with it?

1. In the top right there is a button for uploading
2. This widget opens & you can click & drag image(s) in from ACDSee Photo Manager or Explorer
3. Fill in the information for Flickr, add tags, choose privacy level
4. Click on Upload Photos & you can see it uploading, then it appears in the frame - it’s that easy!

Now to get it the image(s) on your blog:

• In the little upload box, click on Edit Uploaded Photos on Flickr
• That opens Flickr in your browser.
• Double click on your photo, then click on Open Photo Page under image on the right
• Right click & choose Copy Image location & paste into your blog
• If you’re in Wordpress, use dimensions of 99% x 99% if the image is too large.
• This is what you get (I didn’t use the 99% for this - it’s called constraining)

You can download & install the Yahoo Widgets here.

A couple of comments:

• After the install, you get a toolbar of widgets on the right of your desktop.
• I deleted many of them.
• I don’t know how much junk comes down with the these things.
• I like the slideshow playing though. I’m not sure if it will slow down my computer.
• I’ll let you know on these things.

Update - I deleted many widget & hid most & am quite happy with the result.  I think these will be quite useful!  Want to see?  You can put a webcam image in there Heidi!  (She’s getting a new one on Monday…)

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