It seems everywhere you go today, you see people holding cameras. At sporting events and casual get-togethers, or just walking around the mall, there they are, clicking away. Even my eight-year-old son drags a camera with him wherever he goes.
Thanks to the amazing advancements in digital photography, taking pictures is fun, easy, and cost-effective. That’s why I’m thrilled to tell you about Gather’s big photo-sharing upgrade.
In just a few days, Gather will introduce an easy new tool that’ll allow you to share up to 40 photos* from your computer at once! You’ll then be able to place those photos into albums to easily share with friends and family. While your photos are loading and processing, you can select privacy and comment settings, and even write captions and tags for each picture.
Gather’s new album-editing features will let you arrange your photos in any order you wish, select an image for the album cover, and reorganize and delete photos on the fly. Once you’ve created your album, you can add new photos to it or simply create another album. Plus, your photos will look gorgeous on Gather! Our beautiful slideshow feature will allow you to showcase your photos in a classic and sophisticated way.
Sharing photos with friends and family who aren’t on Gather yet will also be easier then ever. Soon you’ll be able to send your friends and family invitations to join and view your photos as part of the sharing process.
So stand by for digital photo albums and album sharing – it’s developing soon on Gather!
*Format and Quality Details: With this upgrade, Gather will support JPG, GIF, and PNG format and file sizes up to 6 megabytes or 1800 pixels in width or height. We recommend that you save your JPG (Jpeg) file with a resolution of 72 dots per inch (DPI), and resize the photo to 550 pixels wide before uploading.
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(Will I be able to upload multiple photos to illustrate my articles, too?)
I do have two questions:
Since .GIF files are now supported, will members be allowed to use animated .gifs as their member & group avatars/icons?
Will all images narrower than 550 pixels in width still be scaled up to this dimension?
This is a great tool.
Now THIS is an upgrade I can live with!
Also - you will be able to upload multiple photos as part of the sharing steps for posts.
I like this feature because some of my family members don't like pictures of their kids published openly on the internet. With this new feature, I can share all my family photos and invite other family members in to see them, but not have to make them visible to the world. This kind of privacy control allows me to share more of my life with the folks I know and care about on Gather.
I'm co-moderator of a group (The Surreal Circus) that posts a lot of visual arts photos. I've been hoping for a way to organize the group's images into "galleries." Will the album option be available to groups as well?
Glad you are opening up the formats, it will simplify things a bit.
All in all sounds good, sure wish we'd get threaded commenting though.
I like the idea of galleries for our own stuff, really this is a great idea. We'll see how it is implemented though before I give my final comments as usual :)
Now what about posts / articles? Will we be able to group them also (I'd like to have folders for my Chats, my work related stories, random banter and so on. .. you get the idea) or is this just specifically for photos? If it is, will we ever see this idea extended to posts and video?
Just sayin' :)
Looking forward to tomorrows preview as well!
I'm really looking forward to this update.
Will the photos in the album be able to be rated and commented on individually?
The reason that I ask is that when I post a photo essay, I get comments on the essay but not the photos individually.
If I make an album, when people comment on the album, will the photos also be listed separately as photos, so that they may be commented on individually? (I hope that I explained that ok.)
My camera takes pics at 2364 wide, currently. Does this mean I'll have to resize every photo to upload here? That would be just as bad, for me, as it currently stands with only uploading one at a time. It'd double the space I need to store photos on my hard drives. And, I don't want to do that unless I'm cropping, resizing and saving an image for myself.
I took one response above, to mean that we will still be able to upload pretty similarly...as far as pixel dimensions are concerned... after the upgrade. Am I understanding this?? Probably not. So.. make me understand, please!
Thank God for the disposable 35mm ones...I think they take just as good, if not better, pictures than the digitals!!!!
Otherwise, I LOVE the album feature!
Great way to share photos with friends & family.