When the 1000Memories site was announced last year, I abstained from trying it out because I was too busy and I was still working out my Photo naming convention and had photos in many different file folders.
However, I have a need to share family photographs with my daughters, brothers, cousins and in-laws, so I decided to try it out about one month ago. I really like it!!!
After registering for free, I created several albums for different families, and was able to upload photographs to several albums. I then added dates, places, name tags and comments to the photos, and invited some of my family members to view them.
There were several albums that I did not populate that first time around, but now I'm ready to do that, and I thought I would share my experience.
1) When I open my 1000Memories website (www.1000memories.com), I see the Albums that I have created:
2) I wanted to add photographs from my files to the "Fred and Betty Seaver Family" album, so I clicked on that album on the screen above:
There are several ways to upload photos to the site:
* Use the red "Add Photos" button to add photos from computer files
* Scan photos from the iPhone of ScanCafe
* Import photos from Facebook or InstaGram.
3) I wanted to upload them from my computer files, so I clicked on the "Add Photos" button and was able to pick from my file folders:
4) I clicked on the "Open" button and the selected photos were added (very quickly) to the album:
5) For each photo, I can click on it and add a Date, a Place, tag the persons in the photo, and write a Comment:
In the photo above, I added a date, added a place, and tagged the people in the photograph. I can make a picture the album cover, and I did that for the photo above.
6) Lastly, I can Invite family members to view each specific album by clicking on the "Invite people" button. I can invite one or more persons by adding their name or email address in the blank field:
This works extremely well, it's well organized, and logical.
I can now share my family photographs with other family members easily. I've added over 580 photos to my albums, and still have more to do. I need to add the date, place, tag information to some of them.
I love this capability. It has made photo sharing a snap for me.
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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
Thank you for the update, Randy. I really should give it a try. From your description, it is just what I have been looking for. ;-)
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