What's the best way to collect and share photos for my yearbook?

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1 What's the best way to collect and share photos for my yearbook? Date : September 13, 2015 YearbookFusion Online enable you to gather photos from your school community members for use in the yearbook. You can upload photos in three ways: directly to your Photos, for use by other YearbookFusion Online users via a weblink, so members of your community can upload images for your use in the software via a phone/tablet uploader app. The Photos tab On the main panel, click on Photos. This space allows you to create subfolders for your projects, available for your team members to share, and access the DropBox, where members of your community can share photos without logging into the software. 1 / 20

2 Adding Images for your Team members Anyone logged into YearbookFusion Online can navigate to images uploaded to Photos, and use these images in their pages. To create a folder, right-mouse select in the blank area, then choose New Directory. 2 / 20

3 Type a name for your new folder to complete the process. 3 / 20

4 To navigate into the folder, click on it. You can then add images directly in the folder. Click on ADD IMAGES to navigate to images on your system. 4 / 20

5 Navigate to your image folder of choice, then select one or more images in the folder of your choice. 5 / 20

6 The selected images will upload. The speed of the upload depends on the speed of your internet connection and the number of people on your network connection, but generally the images should go up in a few seconds per photo. When the upload is complete, the image thumbnails will be displayed, ready for use in your projects. 6 / 20

7 Adding images outside of the installed software People who are not working directly on the yearbook can also send photos for use in the book. The Dropbox folder, located inside the Gallery, is a special folder that can be accessed outside of YearbookFusion itself. Click on the Dropbox folder to navigate inside it. 7 / 20

8 Inside the Dropbox, you will see a url (website address) at the top of the hover. This is a website address that allow anyone to access the folder, on any browser (computer, tablet, phone), and add images to it. 8 / 20

9 Click on the address to copy it to your clipboard. You will then be able to send the address to the members of your school or community - by or on a flyer. Alternatively, you can take a photo the QR code and send this to members of your community. Add the image to an or print it to a flyer. This is particularly useful to use the Uploader app on your phone (details below). 9 / 20

10 Navigating to this url will show a view of your Dropbox. Note: the web browser view of the Gallery will not allow you to delete images or make folders. 10 / 20

11 Click on Add Images, and navigate to your photos on your system. Select one or more photos, then start the upload. Once the upload is complete, anyone on your team using the installed software will have access to the images. 11 / 20

12 You can create subfolders in the Dropbox, each of which will have their own custom url. This allows you to create event or group specific Dropbox folders, with specific urls to share only with the people have photos. For example, you could create subfolders for each classroom, and send the link for the individual folders to the homeroom teacher and/or student teacher, or parent volunteers who take photos of that class. 12 / 20

13 The FotoFusion Uploader App An uploader app is available in the Google Store and in the Itunes app store. 13 / 20

14 Install the app on your phone - at launch, it will prompt you for your name. Your name will be used to make a folder in the Dropbox, to identify the source of the photos. 14 / 20

15 Scan the QR code from your Gallery folder or from a printout (eg. a flyer). 15 / 20

16 After scanning, you can add photos, either directly via your phone or tablet's camera, or by uploading photos from your local storage. In this example, we created a folder in the Dropbox named "Library" and are using a QR code for this particular folder. Click on Take a Photo to access your camera, or Pick from Gallery to upload a photo on your device. 16 / 20

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18 Once a photo has been selected, it will upload, and appear as a small thumbnail, and you will find it in your Dropbox back in YearbookFusion Online. 18 / 20

19 Gallery Tip #1: Organize using folders Create subfolders, in the Dropbox, based on the events or sections you expect to cover in your yearbook. You'll be able to send off urls and qr codes to specific members of your community well ahead of time, and know when you'll be needing a photographer on hand. An organized image collection system will greatly streamline your book-building process. Gallery Tip #2: Be selective! Strongly encourage contributors to only send the best shots of their events. Why? Cluttering your photos folder with hundreds of unusable photos will only slow down your ability to create layouts of the images. Imagine wasting valuable design time sifting through 200 shots of a football game, when most of the photos are blurry, or don't show action or faces. The thumbnail previews in the can only be enlarged to a certain degree - dozens of nearly identical photos will be hard to distinguish from one another. Uploading dozens upon dozen of images will take a long time and use up your network bandwidth. Upload only the best, and the job is quickly done. Note: The gallery is not the archive of your School Year in Pictures. There is no means to download these photos automatically for end of year slide shows. Only use this service for accessing yearbook photos, not as a general purpose cloud storage system. 19 / 20

20 Powered by TCPDF ( Yearbook Web Support Gallery Tip #3: Upload only when necessary If you don't need to share the images with other yearbook team members, don't upload them. Only upload to your Photos if someone needs to get photos to you or you need to get photos to someone else who is using the software. If you have a very small team collecting their own images for their own pages, just add the photos directly to your projects, uploading directly in your project. It will save you the extra work of managing photos. 20 / 20