What Does Publishing Pictures Mean?

You can share pictures with family or friends by publishing them to the FotoTime website (http://www.fototime.com). You determine what albums and pictures to publish and who can see them. Instead of sending e-mails that have picture attachments, the FotoTime website has an invite feature that electronically invites people to view your pictures. You send an invitation to a certain guest and they receive a customized e-mail with a link to your pictures. All they have to do is click on the invitation to view your pictures.

The default album (Web Pics) is set up to auto-publish as public any pictures you add to it. You can change this album or add others with different settings. To publish a picture, you will need to:

1. Add the picture(s) to an album.
2. If the album is not set up for auto-publish, then you need to mark the picture as published.
3. Sync to the FotoTime website using the "Sync Web" feature.

Once your account on the FotoTime web site is synced, you can then send people invitations from the website (you can easily access your web account by using the "View Web" button).

The invitations provide a lot of power and flexibility that you do not get by sending e-mail with attachments. These include:

• Ability to track how many times each person has viewed your pictures (per invite)
• Ability to "revoke" an invitation (if you no longer want them to see your pictures)
• Auto-update of changes. If you re-sync and change the pictures/captions, the people viewing your pictures will see the changes the next time they use the invite.
• Complete control (down to the album or group) what pictures can be viewed for each invitation.
• Control over access to public and private pictures (you can give access to some/all of your private pictures and then later revoke that access).
• Smaller e-mail messages (will not be blocked by limits on corporate servers).
• Web based slide show of the pictures in your album.