Tutorial

Now that we can upload our photos by mail, let's really leverage that and make some magic happen. Many Applications let you send photos by mail. Our last installments looked at Picasa and iPhoto, but let's step a bit outside the box and do something really slick.

We're going to use one of the coolest applications out there: Google Earth. You've probably heard of it, and maybe even used it, but wait until you see how handy this can be for your Family Tree Site.

In fact, in less than 5 minutes, we're going to find a free aerial photo of a small-town church from my family history, and we're going to upload it to my TribalPages family tree site without ever leaving Google Earth!

In our last installment, we showed how the Picasa software from Google can be a huge help in managing your family photos and sharing them with TribalPages. We're huge fans of Picasa, and for the Windows platform, there really aren't many free competitors. However, for users of the Apple Mac platform, things are a bit different.

Modern Macs come with a set of great tools called iLife that help with all kinds of creative endeavors: iTunes for music, iMovie for creating home movies, and, most importantly for us, iPhoto for managing all of your photos. This great application provides the same type of photo manipulation and organization that we saw with Picasa, with the added benefit of already being installed and ready to go on every Mac out there.

In this part of the tutorial, we're going to show how to use iPhoto and our new Email Tool to send all of your family history photos to your TribalPages site.

Sending your photos to your family tree website by email

In case you haven't heard, TribalPages now lets you upload your family photos to your TribalPages site via email! After setting a four digit PIN for your account, you can send photos to your site, just like you send them out to your family - with your favorite email program!

What's great about this feature isn't just how it makes it easy to upload lots of photos quickly: it's all the different tools and websites out there that you can now use directly with your family tree website!

In this series of tutorials, we're going to walk you through some of the most interesting and exciting ways we've found to use the new email upload feature. If you've found something even better, just drop us a note, and we'll add a column about it. If you have trouble, just let us know in the Technical Forums.

Getting Organized: Picasa brings sanity to family photo collections

Picasa is Google's tool for finding, organizing, and managing your photos. And it's simply wonderful. And with our new Email Upload tool, you can use it to manage your TribalPages photos as well!

TribalPages has added a great new feature: you can now add photos to your new site via Email! It's easy, quick and incredibly flexible. You can find instructions by logging into edit your site and going to the "Send a Photo" and look for the "Bulk Options" link.

In this five-part series of articles, we're going to look at how to make the most of this new feature to grow your family tree site here at TribalPages. In our first installment, we'll show how to enlist your entire extended family to add photos to your site without giving up the control and safety you're used to.

Understanding Photo Email Addresses

To get started, let's take a look at just how our new Photo Email Addresses work.