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The Photo Album section provides users with the ability to post and share digital photos with their friends and family. Photos can be uploaded and collected into folders (think: rolls of film), and then displayed as either thumbnail images, medium-sized images, or at their original full size. This digital photo album is intended for novices, both to photography and computers. Not only can you upload photo images, you can also make private and public folders to place albums in, add comments to your pictures, and view a vast assortment of uploaded pictures in thumbnails, smaller version of each photo stored on the same page.

Note: Uploaded photos must meet epa.net's accepatable use guidelines.

For a brief overview of how to submit photos to the Photo Album section of epa.net click below.

Adding Photos and Folders

1. From the main page, click the link on the left side navigation bar that says "Photo Album"
2. Click the folder link marked "Community Uploads".
3. Select the appropriate folder to store your file.
4. Click on the "Add subfolder" link. This will take you to a new page where you can add a title and description.
5. Give the folder a name and description and click the submit button.
6. Then, find your folder and click on the highlighted name. (You may have to scroll to the bottom as they are not in alphabetical order.)
7. Next, click on the "Add an Album" link. This will take you to a new page where you can add a title, description, and story for the album. An example of a story would be where the pictures are from and why they are important to you. Then click the submit button. This will take you to a page where you can add photos (images) to your album.
8. Click on the "Add a photo to this album" link.
9. Choose the browse button to the right of the first blank space to locate the image on your hard drive or floppy diskette. For PC users, your images will probably be in the "My Documents" folder in "images", "My Pictures", or another location you may have stored them.
10. Choose the image you wish to upload and click "open". This will return you to the place where you can add a title, description, and story for your image.
11. After adding these, click "Submit".

You should now see a thumbnail (small) version of your image. Clicking this will now display a larger image. Clicking a second time will show the full sized image. (For smaller images the full size and medium size image will appear to be the same.)

Try to keep images under 200k. This will prevent overloading the storage capacity of the system.

Deleting Photos and Folders

1. You must remove all photos from an album before it can be deleted.
2. You must remove all albums from a folder before a folder can be deleted.
3. To remove a photo, click the thumbnail of the photo you want to delete.
4. Then select the "Delete this photo" link.

At any time, you can select the "Modify album permissions" link to set who will be allowed to view the photos. Note: System administrators are listed. They will always be able to see the contents of your album. To prevent others from seeing your album, click on the "Do not inherit permissions link".

We recommend permission setting for advanced users only.

You can also select the "Edit album attributes" or "Edit Folder Attributes" links to change the names and descriptions of folders and albums.