Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today let me show you how to share
photos from your Mac with other people online.
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So if you want to share some of your photos with other people online you don't have to upload them
to some sort of social network or photo sharing site. You can do it using the Photos app on
your Mac and iCloud. So here I am in Photos. What I want to do is create a Shared Album.
Now I can do that in many ways. I can go over here to the Shared Albums on the left. Click
the Plus button and create a Shared Album that way. But it's easier if I start off by selecting
some photos even if they are not all the photos I want to share. Just a few to get started. So I've
selected a few photos here. Now I can go to File, Share and choose Shared Albums. Or I can simply
click the Share button here at the top and select Shared Albums. Either way I'm going to get this
popping up here under the Shared icon. Now I need to select the Shared Album that I want to use.
In this case I haven't created one yet. So I have the ability here to create a new Shared Album.
I'll give it a name. Let's just call this Test. I can invite people to it. But I won't
do that just yet. I'm just going to create the album right now. So I'll click Create
and you can see it appear here under Shared Albums. If I select it here you could see
there are the six photos I've included in the Shared Album.
Now to control how this is shared I'm going to click this button up here and
I'll see the name. I can change that if I want. Here's where I can now invite people
and I have three options. So when inviting people you need to use somebody's Apple ID.
They can have an Apple ID because they have any Apple product or they can go to appleid.apple.com
and create one for free. You don't have to own an Apple product to do that. Anybody with an Apple ID
can be added to this invite list and then they'll have private access to it. They would need to be
logged into their account in their web browser. They can be doing this on any device that has
a modern web browser. They don't need to have a Mac or iPhone or iPad. This allows you to control
exactly who sees the photos to keep them private just among a select group of people.
Now when you've invited people if you have Subscribers Can Post set
then they can post photos to the album as well. So it's truly a Shared Album. The way they would do
this is to accept the invitation they are going to get, they're going to get a notification, and then
in their Photos app under Shared Albums they would see this album as well. They can add photos to it
in the Photos app. So if you went on a trip with a bunch of people you can create one of these,
put some of your favorite photos there, and other people can then add their favorite photos
to it as well. You can all view them in the same Shared Album. However if you want to make this
just an album that you're sharing with people and they can't add their own photos then uncheck this.
Now next you have the ability to make this a public website. When I select this I'll get
a URL that will appear here with a link. You could see it here. Now it's unlikely anybody
is going to find this unless you post a link to it somewhere. So this is pretty private
as well although not secured. But the advantage of this is you can send anybody this link and
they'll be able to go and view the album either in the Photos app, if they have an Apple product,
or in any web browser. So instead of messing around with inviting people using their Apple ID
you could simply check this, then copy and paste this link into an email or text message
and send it to friends so that they can see the photos that you posted.
The last checkbox here is simply for notifications.
When you share this with people they can add comments, they could Like and if you check this
box here they can add their own photos. With this checked you get a notification when that happens.
So let's leave these two options on to share an album that nobody else can change. We just want
to share our photos with everybody so they can see them. Let's say you sent this link to people.
Here's what they would then see as they try to go to it in their web browser.
You could see it displays here in Safari but it works in Chrome, it will work in Microsoft Edge,
it will work on an android phone. Anywhere. It will display the photos and they could
scroll through them. There are options as well. They could click on a photo
and they go into that photo, depending upon their browser. They could go full screen with it. They
could Flip between photos or start a slide show that automatically goes between the photos.
They could also click Download and download this photo. They don't have to screenshot it or drag
the photo out or anything like that. Notice here I'm not logged into iCloud. I don't have to have
an Apple ID to do this. This is basically a publicly shared photo gallery. It's yours!
You have control of it. It's not at some social network or some third party site. Back here in
the Photos app you can delete it anytime using the Delete Shared Album button here and it goes away.
Now once you have a Shared Album you could easily add photos or remove photos from it. So,
let's go back to our Library here and let's say we want to add this one to it. Just drag and drop it
and now it added that one to the album. You also can click this button here and then it will allow
you to select photos to add. So I can select a couple here like that, Add, and now those are
added as well. If I want to delete a photo I can select it and I can either Control Click on it
and Delete from the Shared Album or just use the Delete key and it will delete it from the Shared
Album. It's still in my regular Photos Library. It's just not shared anymore in this Shared Album.
Also note that you can add comments and Like photos in Shared Albums. So there's a button here
at the bottom left hand corner. It looks a little differently on the iPhone or iPad. It actually
says Add Comments at the bottom. Here I can Like a photo like this and I can add a comment. Other
people can do that as well. So if you shared this with other people and they open it up in their
Photos app they have this same button here and they can click there and add a comment as well.
Everybody else who is viewing the Shared Album can click and see the comments that other people have
posted. Notice you have to be at the top level here to have this button and be able to change
settings for the entire album. Let's set this so subscribers can post and let me invite someone.
So now that person has accepted and you could see the list of people here and the checkmark
next to the people who have accepted. I could remove them from the album if I want. If I go
in here and look at the comments I can see when they do things. For instance if they
Like the photo you'll see that appear here. You also see it when they add a comment.
You get a Notification as well because I have that checked. You'll also see it when they
add a comment to the photo as well. So you can see here they just added one. It updated live.
I'm going to have that other user add a photo to the album. You're going to see it appear here.
There it goes. So that's a photo there and I can actually go in and comment on that photo.
Now here's what happens if somebody invites me to view their Shared Album. You can see I got
a Notification here. I'll click on that. It goes into Photos and under Shared Albums you may have
noticed there's Activity there. Activity is where I'll see the invitation. So there it says Album
Test 2. I can Accept or Decline. I'll accept. Now Test 2 appears here. I can go to it and
see the photos that that person has posted to the Shared Album. If they have allowed me to add my
own photos I can do so. Otherwise I could always go in and Comment and Like their photos as well.
Well, let's say they just share a public link instead. Then I would get a message from them
or maybe an email or something. Here it is with a link. I could click on that and I could go and
view the album in a web browser, even if I haven't been added to the invite list. You know you can
share these public albums with anybody. So you could post them to social media and instead of
uploading your photos there you could simply post to your Facebook page that here are all the photos
from your trip. Check it out. The great thing is you can easily update this as well. So you could
do this while you're on the trip constantly adding new photos to the Shared Album. Those that are
interested can keep checking the Shared Album and see what's new. You can also share photos with the
general public. You could put a link on a website, for instance, and say here are some of my favorite
photos and let anybody check out an album that you've shared. There are so many options that you
can really customize iCloud Shared Photo Albums to fit almost any need for posting photos online.