September 2009
Beginner
640 pages
26h 48m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual
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Sharing Photos with Yahoo Maps
Elements gives you another fun way to share your photos online: placing them as virtual pins stuck in a Yahoo map. Your first reaction may be a yawn and, "So what? I know where I've been." But this is actually a very cool feature.
It's great because you can choose to use a satellite view of the map, and in many places, you can zoom in to the level where you can see individual buildings. This means you can place your photos exactly where you took them. Want to sell your house? Find it on the map and attach your photos. Or click the mountain lodge where you spent your vacation, and then attach your photos. Trace out the route of your trip to Europe, and then place the photos of each site you visited.
Once you've created your photo-speckled map, you aren't limited to admiring your work on your own computer. You can create an online album (Online Albums) to post it on the Internet, where your friends can click the pins on the map to view a slideshow of your photos for that spot, or send it straight to Flickr (www.flickr.com)—the enormously popular photo-sharing site. Adobe has made this easy by building the map feature right into the Organizer. The Organizer even has a Map view, as explained in Figure 18-11.
Figure 18-11. To see the Yahoo Map pane, go to Window → Show Map, or right-click a photo or tag (label) and choose Place on Map, and then enter the location ...
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