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posting photos through free e-mail service
By:Paul G. Jacobson
Date: 4/29/2000, 5:54 am

I was introduced to a free internet service which allows you to post your photos to the web through a simple attachment to an e-mail. Storage space is unlimited and you can link the photos to lists such as this.

The location of the site is www.photopoint.com. Signup is a snap, a simple questionnaire (name and basic demographics) and they send a password to your e-mail address. Your e-mail address identifies you, so when you send a photo attached to an e-mail, they apparently have a simple itme filing it in your "incoming" file.

As a test I sent along a photo of the skin on frame kayak I have been working on ( and mostly ignoring) for the past few years.

After e-mailing the picure, I logged onto their site and entered my file area by identifying myself with my e-mail address and password. From there I could view the HTML code that included the URL of my picture. They also had various other HTML codes that included buttons. I tried one of those here, and it didn't work in the preview.

Hope it doesn't look like an outright ad for them, and offend anyone. The point is, you can just copy and paste.

the URL of my boat in progress is:

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=758382&a=5514325">

The point of all this is that several people have wondered how to set up webpages so that we can see their pictures of their work. This is an easy way to go.

Once you upload our picture they have some simple tools for editing your pictures (cropping, rotation, sizing) and they have tools for letting you assemble "albums" of pix, along with captions.

Hope this helps someone. I'm sure that if this site is around there are, or will be, others that are similar.

Paul G. Jacobson

Messages In This Thread

posting photos through free e-mail service
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/29/2000, 5:54 am
longevity of pictures/links
Dean Trexel -- 4/30/2000, 11:33 pm
Re: longevity of pictures/links
Ross Leidy -- 5/1/2000, 8:57 am
Re: longevity of pictures/links
Dean Trexel -- 5/1/2000, 10:38 am
Re: longevity of pictures/links
Ross Leidy -- 5/1/2000, 11:21 am
Re: longevity of pictures/links
Nick Pinson -- 5/2/2000, 7:08 am
Grrr.
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/29/2000, 6:04 am