| We've
opened an account in the Kodak Photo Gallery, where we can view
and share photos with each other.
In order
for all of us to do stuff in a single account, we had to get a
little tricky. Normally only a single account holder can
add albums to a particular account, and you others can only view
them if they are "invited" by email to do so.
And often, Kodak requires you to register in order to view
someone else's album. Kodak uses an individual's email
address as a "user name". We needed something
simpler, where everyone who knows the password and such can go
in, create a new album, and add his/her photos to share with
everyone else without going through a lot of hassle.
So, here's
what your tricky webmaster did.
First, I
created an email "alias" called photos@bucs57.com
. This isn't a "real" address ( what they call a
"POP" account )... it's just an alias which forwards
email sent to that address to my "real" email
address. But Kodak doesn't know that. And all of you
can use it to log into this particular account.
Next, I
had to create a password, which I obviously don't want to post
on this web site, because somebody might start uploading porn or
whatever. But you already know the password! It's
the first three words of our Fight song! ( no spaces, no
capitals, just type in the 8 letters as a single word ).
If you're still unsure, just check the program that was given
out at the banquet... it's in there.
So, this
is how it works.
First, go
to http://www.kodakgallery.com
Log
in using the email address photos@bucs57.com
and the 8-letter password previously discussed.
Click the
link that says "My Gallery". You should see a
page that looks something like this:
| Those
little stacks of photos are individual albums. At
the time I programmed this page, only myself and Charles
Sadler had created and posted an album. You'll
probably see several more. |
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| Now,
we need to exercise a little caution here. Getting
into this account gives everyone full access to everything
there, so please don't mess with anyone else's album, or
change any general settings, or whatever.
Just
follow the instructions for creating a new album, using
your own real name as the album title, so we'll know who
sent the photos. Kodak makes it easy to upload your
photos from your home computer, and nobody needs to be a
web wizard to do it.
There's
a couple of shortfalls here... the biggest being the fact
that Kodak reduces the photos so you can't get the
original big file if you want to make a big print.
For that, you'll need to email the person who posted the
album and request the original ( large ) file be sent
directly to you as an email attachment.
On
the plus side, it seems that Kodak has the original large
size photo stored somewhere, so they will be happy to take
your money and make you a large print, or a coffee mug, or
whatever.
If
you want to save a particular photo to your own computer,
you can right-button-mouse-click on the photo and select
"Save Image As...". Then you can save and
later send that particular photo on to other friends or
family as an email attachment.
Please
don't give this information to anyone else who is not a
member of the class of 1957! It would only take one
hostile outsider to mess everything all up and then we'd
have to start again from scratch.
If
you have any unsolvable difficulty, you can send me an
email by typing in the address photos@bucs57.com
(you'll have to type this in by hand
) or give me a call at (802) 897-2001 and I'll do what I
can to assist you.
| Technical
Note: Discouraged that the Kodak Gallery won't
let you copy anything but the smaller photos from
their site, and you can't copy the larger shots you
see when you do the "slideshow"
presentation? Here's a work-around:
View
your favorite album in "slideshow" mode.
When you get to a shot you'd like to save pause the
show and look over at the upper right corner of your
keyboard and find a key called "Print
Screen". Press it. This copies your
entire screen shot onto your clipboard.
Next,
paste the screen shot into your favorite graphics
program, and cut out the photo from the
background. This will give you the largest
version available (free) from the Kodak web
site. I've done the group photo, below, and
this one you can copy from the site and save to your
hard disk. ( although I confess I can't resist
taking the plain photos and adding a border, drop
shadows, etc. |
Thanks for sharing!
"Jimmy" Peden
(golly that sounds strange after all these years)
Webmaster
Send
me your very best photo
I'd
like to put up a small album of our very best photos on this
site, so if you have a real winner, please send it to me,
full-size, and I'll adjust it accordingly and post it for
all to see. Here's one that's pretty nice for
starters. Please don't send me a whole bunch... put
your general collection up on our Kodak Gallery. Just
send me an exceptionally good shot if you have one, and also
please tell us about the shot... who are the folks in it, if
any, and so forth.
From
Exie Hall's Power Point Presentation at the Dinner
If
we think of any more interesting post-reunion stuff,
we'll post it here, so bookmark this page and check back
every so often...
 
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