How To Use Yahoo Picture Storage

Step 1. If you never used photo.yahoo.com before, you'll need to sign up for this free service. Click here, then return to this page for further instructions.

Step 2. Now that your have a user id and password, you should login to the service.You see a screen like fig. 1. Click on the Create a new Album link.

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Step 3.This will bring you to a screen like in fig. 2. Create a Photo Album Name, in our case its Bobs and select the Public radio button then click on the create Album box. Note if you don't select public, no one except you can view the image.

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Step 4. Now you'll see a screen similar to fig 3 . Click on the Add Photo Button.

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Step 5. This will bring to the fig 4 screen. Select multiple for a faster experience, if you have more than one picture to store. If you only have one, your at the proper screen. Ignor the Upload Tool for now. The tool is a beta version and is still not working properly. I'll update this tutorial, when the upload tool is ready.

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Step 6. For simpicity, we are only going to use the single image upload. If you have mutiple images use the mutiple button and upload all your photos to the limit you can upload them. Click on the browse button as shown in fig. 5 and locate an image to send to Yahoo.Then click on the Upload button. There are other fields like photo name and description which are option. It's not recommended to fill these fields in.

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Step 7. Once the image is loaded, you'll see a screen like this.Click on the Add more photos or the Back to Album link.

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Step 8. Now you'll see a screen like this screen.The images are called Thumbnails. If you want to use our supersize ad template to create a fast loading add that allows you to create small fast loading images that a viewer can click on to get the full image, go to step 9. if you just want to create a standard full size image only ad, go to step 10.

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Step 9. This step will teach you how to capture the thumbnail image address to post in your Ad. Now you're going to learn some tricks with the mouse. Move your cursor over the image and click on the right button of your mouse and right click. This will present you with a box. Move you cursor to select properties and left click your mouse. This will present you with the fig 8 screen. Move your cursor over the to the start of the Address field at http://...., left click and hold and drag your mouse to the end of the address. In thiscase RJjtV. release the mouse, the address field will stay highligted. Hold down the Ctrl key and the C key to copy the address.Now open up your computers notepad application and hold down the Ctrl key and the V key to paste the address in to the notepad ( see fig. 9). This is the address for the image that you should use in your add. You may want to add a note after the image to remind yourself what the image is for etc.

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Step 10. Move your mouse over the thumbnail image as seen in fig 7 and left click the mouse. This will bring you to a full size image. This step will teach you how to capture the full size image address to post in your Ad. Now you're going to learn some tricks with the mouse. Move your cursor over the image and click on the right button of your mouse and right click. This will present you with a box. Move you cursor to select properties and left click your mouse. This will present you with the fig 10screen. Move your cursor over the to the start of the Address field at http://...., left click and hold and drag your mouse to the end of the address. In thiscase RJjtV. release the mouse, the address field will stay highligted. Hold down the Ctrl key and the C key to copy the address.Now open up your computers notepad application and hold down the Ctrl key and the V key to paste the address in to the notepad ( see fig. 11). This is the address for the image that you should use in your add. You may want to add a note after the image to remind yourself what the image is for etc.

Repeat Steps 8-10 until all your image addresses are captured in notepad to use in you Ads.

You will use the notepad information to copy and paste the image URL addresses to you Ad

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