Page #191 (Part IV: Sharing, Creating, and Having Fun)

Chapter 20. Sharing Images

IN THIS CHAPTER:

155 About Emailing

156 Set Up Photoshop Elements for Emailing

157 Manage Contacts

158 Share Images Using Email

159 Select an Online Service

160 Share Images Using an Online Service

161 Send Images to a Mobile Phone

The long-running comic strip Blondie often depicts the Bumstead family looking through a photo album and commenting on some disreputable relative. In the twenty-first century, the photo album easily could be electronic, and the Bumsteads could share photos by email with all their relatives, including the disreputable ones.

Photoshop Elements is not an email program, but it can work in close partnership with the email software you do have. This chapter explains how to get your images from the Organizer catalog on your computer in Texas to Great-Uncle Henry over on the Emerald Isle (or wherever his travels might have taken him). In addition to individual pictures, you can email creations such as slide shows, photo albums, postcards, and calendars. You also can include sound and video files, but not automatically. You must manually attach them to the email message. If your friends and relatives have a slow connection to the Internet, you can share images using an online service. Not only does this make it quicker and easier for Grandma to view the latest photos of your daughter's birthday party, she can select the ones she wants to have copies of and have the service print and mail them directly to her. Of course, Adobe's online service, Ofoto, comes with built-in security so you don't have to worry about someone viewing your photos if you didn't invite them to.