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In “Never upload a photo again” I told you that I would explain how you use the photos you’ve uploaded.

How to select photos for ads

Notice that the first photo is selected but that the other photos are not. If these photos were of different views of the same dress, we would want to attach them to this ad and we could do that by clicking on the select button for each photo. Since they’re not, we don’t.

When you use a photo in an ad, it’s removed from the gallery, making it easy to know what you’ve posted and what you haven’t.

In another post, I’ll show you the two different ways you can upload photos from your browser. And in still another post, I’ll show you how to email photos from your cell phone!

MyAd is trying to make posting ads for your business as easy as possible.

Good selling!

Jim

What’s the least fun part of posting an ad?   Sometimes it’s coming up with the title.  Sometimes it’s setting a price that you can live with.

But I think the least fun thing is uploading photos.  You have to browse around and find the photo that you’re looking for, then wait for it to upload.

If you’re posting one item, that’s OK.  But what if you want to post a lot of stuff?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could take a boatload of pictures with your digital camera, move them to your computer when you have time and then have them uploaded for you?

You can, and you don’t have to install any extra software!

Find your pictures, select some by clicking on them or all with Ctrl-A and then right-click.  You’ll get this:

Send to email recipient

You can see 9 photos there.  You could mail more than that if you had them.

Windows will ask you if you want to shrink them or keep the originals.  It’s a good idea to shrink them so that you don’t have anything too big for your internet provider’s mail server.  We will make copies of your images to fit our standard sizes.

Send pictures via e-mail

OK, but who do you send these pictures to?   photos@myad.com

emailing photos in Outlook Express

So what happens after you hit send?  Your files are copied into two standard sizes, one for viewing in category, like “Portland Cars For Sale” and another bigger size when somebody looks at your ad.  They’re there waiting for you.

How do you use them?  Tune in tomorrow and I’ll show you.

Good selling,

Jim