After you sign up for a photo album, check the email address you entered into the email box for new mail. Within a few minutes, a password should be emailed to that address, along with the confirmation of your account creation.

When you are logged in, you can create albums, delete albums, upload pictures to our servers for inclusion in your albums, manage your account details, change your password, change captions of photos, change the albums that photos are in, and delete photos.

When logged in, click on the manage account link in the sidebar. Under the change password prompt, enter in your new password into each of the two boxes, and click "Change Password". The next time you try to access any administration page, you will be prompted again for your user name and new password.

First, you have to have some pictures to put on your photo album. These can be from a digital camera, or scanned in with a scanner. The method for attaining digital pictures varies greatly from device to device, and is out of the scope of this FAQ. It will be assumed that there are digital pictures stored on your computer, in a known directory. When logged in, click on the upload photos link in the sidebar. This will take you to a screen where you can choose the picture to upload (click Browse and select the picture you want to place on our servers). After you have chosen a picture, click "Upload this picture" to be taken to the picture modification screen. Enter in a caption and select which albums to display this photo in, then click "Modify Photo" to complete the upload.

You are allowed to upload jpeg, gif, and png style photos. Unfortunately, uncompressed formats such as tiff (commonly used with scanners) are too big to fit on our servers, and take too long to download to be useful, so you must compress these images into jpeg first before uploading them.

When logged in, click on the create an album link in the sidebar. At the screen that comes up type in a new album name and click "Create this Album"

When logged in, click on the manage pictures link in the sidebar. Select the album with the photo in it, or if the photo is not in any albums click on Unsorted Pictures. Click on the photo you wish to modify to bring up the Modify Photo screen. Select which albums you wish the picture to be in by selecting the check boxes under "Modify the albums it belongs in". Once you are finished choosing the albums to place the photo in, click on Modify Photo to save your changes.

When you delete an album, all photos that were in the album (and not in any other album) get moved to Unsorted Pictures. No photos are deleted from your photo album by deleting an album.

When you delete a picture, the photo is removed from our server, and all comments regarding that photo are removed as well.

You can set a priority on each photo to dictate exactly where they show up in your album view. You must be logged in to set the priority. Click on the manage photos link on the sidebar, and browse to the photo that you wish to change the priority of. Enlarge that photo, and click on the modify photo link in the sidebar. Set a priority in the priority box and click on the modify photo button to complete the process. The higher the number, the closer to the first page the photo will be. Conversely, a lower number will place the photo nearer the last page of that particular album.

The best way to reduce the size of your images (if they are too big datawise) is to reduce the resolution they are stored at. To do this, you need a fairly powerful graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor (part of Microsoft Office). Consult the manual for these software applications for help in changing the resolution of a photo. Another method of reducing the photo's size (both in data size and in physical size) is to resize the photo smaller. Less powerful program such as Microsoft Paint (in Windows 98 or higher) can resize photos fairly readily. Again, consult the manual or the help file for help on resizing the photo. Note that by default all of your pictures are reduced to fit on an 800x600 computer screen when you upload them.

This has been fixed in the most recent version of photo album.

Why are all of my pictures smaller after uploading them?

For a free user all large photos are by default reduced to a size that will make them fit on an 800x600 screen when enlarged. This both makes the site more browseable for older computers and saves you album space. To remove the size limit upgrade to a paid plan.

When you tried changing your password, whatever you typed in the first password box didn't match what you typed in the second password box. Click on back and enter in your new password again.

You clicked on an album, either to modify photos inside of it or just to view them, and the album is empty. Go back and select a different album.

To get into the administration page, you must supply the username you registered with and the password supplied to you by email.

This usually denotes an error on our part. It means that the database holding the information about your photos, albums, and comments can't be accessed at the current time. Wait for a few minutes and then try again, but if the error keeps up for an extended amount of time, email us.

You tried to create an album with exactly the same name as another one that already exists. Click on back and choose a new name for your album.

You tried to upload an image that was not in the correct format. Convert the image with the help of a photo editing program, and try again.

You have reached the maximum size of your photos account. Either go and delete some photos to make room for this new one, or upgrade your account to a higher level to alleviate this situation.

Someone has already taken your user name! Try adding random numbers to the end, for example if you wanted the user name "stec", and found it was already taken, try "stec1" or "stec3282" instead.

You have already registered a photo album under that email address. At the current time, we can only allow one photo album per email account and only one account perperson.

You have reached the maximum size of your photos account. This error, and the procedure to fix it, is the same as "File Too Big" above, just this specific error occurs when you are doing a batch zip style upload.

This error is usually caused when the file was not found on your local computer. This should be fairly rare if you use the browse button to find the file you are trying to upload, but if you tried to upload a file by typing the path into the input box, you may want to go back and check that you didn't accidentally type a mistake.

Yes you can but we monitor the bandwidth cloesly.

To delete your account, you can log into your account and select the 'Delete your account' option in manage your account.