welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today's topic is discussing the concept
of sharing photographs and specifically doing shared albums with icloud photos here we go
there's many different ways to share photos and videos with family friends whomever it may
be you can upload to social media go to facebook instagram youtube you name it there's a bajillion
places google drive google photos if you're using the storage of icloud and using icloud photos if
you haven't started using photo streams or shared photo albums you're missing out because there's a
lot of potential with these you have the ability to create them from your iphone your ipad your mac
so let's go ahead and get started we'll create one we'll show you the options that you have to share
it and how it shows up on all of your devices so let's start with opening up photos on the
computer and first you just really need to figure out what do you want to share and for me let's go
ahead and use the example my fiance and i actually were up the north shore recently this past weekend
and i have some photographs here and i have all these different photographs some of them are of
food and some of them are the lighthouse i had my drone out there it was ridiculously cold but
well worth it for some of the photos that we got here's the lighthouse if you haven't been up in
north shore lake superior it's a good time it's very very scenic you know we got some cliffs at
palisade palisade palacide i don't know how to say it but some really gorgeous views so i want
to take all of these pictures here from that that weekend and i want to put it into a shared album
so i can share it with my fiance my mom brother sister whomever it may be so let's start off by
selecting the photos that i want to include so i'm going to select the first one here i'm going
to scroll down and a lot of these pictures are either with my cell phone or with my dslr camera
so we'll keep going down there's grand marais and down to here okay so now that i've selected these
photographs in the top right hand side of photos i have the share button and i can click on the box
with a little upwards arrow and do shared album or i can go up to the file menu go to share and
do shared albums as well or i could come to the left hand side and under shared albums i
can click the plus sign and also create a shared album this way there's no right or wrong way to
do it i usually select the photos first and then i click the button up here to do shared albums
now actually let me take a step back let's only select some of these photos because then i'll show
you how to add more photos to it afterwards so i'm going to select these pictures and we will go to
up until the point of this cool dude out on the beach so we'll do the last food here so
i'm going to click on the share button do shared albums and this is where it's pretty much asking
do i want to add to an existing shared library or an existing shared album or do i want to create a
new shared album so i'm going to do new shared album we're going to call it north shore winter
no this is a north shore lutson we'll do north shore luton winter 2021 now the invite people this
is where i would choose to invite people so i'm actually going to do learn with joel at icloud.com
and i can always add more people to the subscribed or i don't even have to add anyone and i can still
share this link with people the beautiful thing about sharing this is you do not need an apple
product or icloud to view it you could send this shared album to someone that is using an android
phone or just a computer or they don't even have to have an account because it can be a public
link so actually let's uh delete myself out of here i'm just going to remove the subscriber
because you're subscribing to it and i'm not going to do anything and we'll add it afterwards i don't
need any comments with the photo so i'm just going to choose create now when i click create there
notice over here on the left hand side it created this north shore loots in winter 2021 album for me
and the photos that i selected are going to slowly go into this album and notice at the top here
i have a little progress bar that it's saying hey it's sharing 105 items to this north shore
and those pictures will slowly show up there now one thing i hope apple improves is the ability
just to create a simple folder in shared albums i use them a lot and it's just a long long list
there's no way to organize them and it kind of is a little frustrating but hopefully they have that
ability to actually organize them so we can start to see them populate in in photos here but i only
did that first hundred or so photos so let's say i want to add more photos so i'm going to go back
to the library i can select more here and we'll go down to this video here and i can also take them
and drag them to the north shore shared album on the left hand side and that will add them as well
notice the little progress bar up here at the top so it's adding those 32 items and then a another
way to add them is directly going from the shared album i can go up to the top here where it says
add photos and videos and it's going to go through the pictures show me the my whole entire library
and i can add them this way as well this is not necessarily my preferred method of viewing it this
way because it kind of mixes them all up but let's just say i wanted to add this picture this picture
and this picture in the top right i can click add and that will add those pictures into the shared
album here now that's going to take a moment for it to catch up it always takes a little bit of
time so if i jump to my ipad i can go to the top left to open up the sidebar go to my photos i can
untoggle the shared albums and here it is right here at the top north shore loots in winter 2021
when i select that i'll see all of the photographs that i've added from the computer now if i wanted
to add photos from my phone i could do that or my ipad as well same process on the iphone or ipad
identical way to create add a subscribe in the top right i can click the three little dots
and this gives me the option to either share these photos add more photos invite people the zooming
in zooming out honestly it's the same thing as pinching your fingers inwards and outwards
aspect ratio just changes the photos so that they're either showing the aspect ratio of
how that photo is cropped or if you go back to square it'll just show everything as a square
i can rename the album i can filter all the photos all the videos and all of this you can
do on the computer as well as well as your iphone but the three little dots in here allow you to see
and kind of filter and you know i can show them all on a map see exactly where these pictures were
at which is really really helpful so if i wanted to add more pictures i could go back to library
i could select let's say this here i could go to the share button in the top right and i could
scroll down and say add to shared album if i touch that it's going to give me an option to
make a comment on this photo and underneath that i have the option to say shared album and if i touch
that it's pretty much saying what album is this photograph going into so i don't want it to go in
winter swans i don't want it to go into something else so i'm going to go back north shore lutson
winter 2021 and touch post at the top right and now this photograph is being added to that shared
album now let's go back to the computer here i can go back to the library and this is where i can add
the remaining photographs so we'll select uh from here oh this this guy was okay picture
perfect moment this one guy had this like stick he had like this homemade filter this uh sifter
that he was making to like scoop up the rocks and like sort through them and i was like oh this is
like out of a storybook and so here's this here's this guy that totally looks the part and he's just
it's keep in mind it's like 20 below and he's just out there like like no big deal it was crazy
so i had to of course take pictures of him because why not okay so here we go let's scroll down
and we're going to add the rest of these photographs and i already added that one so
i'm going to deselect that one and i can just drag that into the north shore and that's going to add
the remaining photographs there so now that i have the shared album i can now start to invite people
to it as well as control who can add photos or if i want to create a public link for this meaning
that i can share with anyone who doesn't have an apple product so if i have this album selected
here on the left in the top right i can click on the little icon of this person and this shows me
exactly who to share it with and if i want to do permissions for like a public website for example
so if i do public website if i click on this this allows anyone to view this shared album on
icloud.com so it actually gives me this link here and if i click on this it's gonna pull up a web
browser and i can view all of the photographs from any web browser this doesn't require you
to have an apple computer it doesn't require you to have an iphone an ipad a mac uh icloud
subscription this is literally of the ability to share these photos this kind of private photo
gallery with anyone and everyone that you want to send this link to so you can click on here you
can download them you can go full screen it'll play a slideshow for you it's really a nice way
to share photographs with family and friends so very very cool let's minimize that and go back
now this is where you want to start inviting people let's do the learn with joel at icloud.com
press return and what's going to happen is now notice on my ipad here i got a little notification
at the top it said hey joel feld invited you to north shore lutson and that actually shows up if
i go to the photos app i can find it under the for you category that's where they typically put it
so here i can see hey joel feld invited you do you want to either accept it or decline it
so i will touch accept and now i'm going to be able to see all of the pictures that uh i
post with this account and the more people that i invite to this shared album they're able to post
as well so notice if i go back to my computer here and click on a little silhouette of the person
i have this option that says subscribers can post so that means that because i just just subscribed
with the learn with joel account i can actually go on the ipad here go under shared albums
here and in the top right i have the ability to touch little circles and then do add photos
or if i scroll all the way down to the bottom i can touch the plus sign and add photos that
way and that gives me the ability if you're on a vacation or a road trip uh everyone can kind
of collectively share their photos which is really nice because how many times are all of you taking
pictures at the same time and then you're like well what did they take over there what pictures
and videos did they take this gives you a solid way to actually share photographs in a family
gathering or get together with friends whatever it may be next on here is notifications this just
having that turned on allows you to get the notifications like we just saw on the ipad or if
someone comments on a photograph you'll get those notifications saying someone liked this photo or
you know they made a comment on that and those show up in the activity of shared albums so over
here on the left hand side i see activity and also notice on my computer in the top right it said so
and so joined this album so we can see that but here under the activity this shows me the date and
it shows who shared the photographs and i can just scroll through and kind of see an ongoing list of
all of the shared videos or photos that have been shared and as i scroll down even farther you know
i have lots of different shared albums here's you know my mom commented on on the swans here
so here she liked this and she made a comment of three hearts so it's it's almost like creating
your own personal private little online gallery that you can share with your friends and family
it's it's really really cool might as well add lisa to this because you know she was there
and if i type in lisa it'll either identify people by their telephone number or their email address
that's linked with their apple id just then it's going to send her a message on her device
and i'll be able to see when she accepts it and all of that also notice that by each one
there is next to joel which is my learn with joel account i have a little check mark to show that
that person is subscribed and next to lisa it shows a little question mark saying this person
has not responded yet and vice versa on the ipads here if i go back to north shore here if i touch
the little silhouette of the person i can see that people are invited and i can see that who has
said yes to it also and again it's the same exact information for subscribers can post
a public website notifications same exact thing lisa just subscribed there so now we can see
her notification and now i'm able to see i get that notification because i have it turned on
and also what's really nice is all of the photos and videos that you put in here do not count
against your icloud storage which is awesome so you could put a thousand photos and videos in
here and they're actually not accommodating your icloud storage that you may or may not pay for
now there are some limitations to that and because the pictures are in a shared album it does not
mean that they're in your own library they're not physically downloaded to your device they're
out there in the cloud they're not actually taking up space on your phone or your ipad
unless you actually touch each one and and download it so that really gives you
an opportunity to kind of leverage the shared photo albums in different ways that you may not
have thought about i'll pull up a help article here off of apple's website if i go here they
actually have instructions on how to create shared albums and all of that kind of stuff
but if i go all the way down to the bottom they have this shared album storage limits so you
can actually put up to 5 000 photos and videos into a shared photo album which is really nice
and it even says your photos and videos and shared albums are kept in icloud
but they don't count against your storage limit and also they have another help article that
i'll link in the description below of the the limitations because there are some limitations
a thousand photos per hour so if you're trying to use it for non-personal uses you might get
flagged where it stops working and then it pauses temporarily and then it'll start up tomorrow or
the following day but you can kind of read through this there are some things that i wish and i hope
that they change for example maximum shared albums by an owner can be 200 i hope that they make that
unlimited or 500 or a thousand i know i don't know how many shared albums i have right now
but my concern is five years from now i will probably meet that 200 threshold and
not sure what i'm gonna do when when that happens i'm gonna have to consolidate my shared albums
but go ahead and look through this this will give you the the nitty-gritty information about
the shared albums regardless it's really really nice to be able to share pictures and a kind of a
more private gallery type way that doesn't take up icloud storage and it's really really easy to do
and again if i wanted to create another new shared album on here i could go on my ipad i could unfold
shared albums scroll down towards the bottom i can choose new shared album and again it gives me the
same exact thing to create the name of it so let's just say i'm just going to say drone pictures
and do next and then it's saying who is it going to well maybe i'm not sure who i'm going to send
this to so you don't always have to put someone in here you can always add them later so i'm going
to do create and i can touch the plus sign here and now i can just go through and add all of the
drone pictures wherever i find them alright so here's a drone picture here here here here here
so i can go through and pretty much make a brand new and touch done in the top right so now it's
creating a brand new shared album that's all drone pictures and i can share this with whomever i want
ah one last thing if you don't have shared albums here you need to go to the preferences for photos
and you have to make sure that you have shared albums selected here if this isn't selected or
checked underneath icloud you're not going to have all these options so photos preferences
go to icloud and then make sure you have shared albums selected and same thing with on your ipad
or your iphone go into the settings go to your icloud go to photos and turn on shared albums
down here at the bottom so that way you know that the shared albums are available they're turned on
for you to use whenever you want so that is uh icloud shared photo albums in a nutshell i hope
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