JetPhoto Studio can work with JetPhoto Server to complete publishing photo albums onto web. JetPhoto Server is a full-featured digital photo publishing service software released under open source license. Anyone can establish his or her own theme photo website quickly and freely using JetPhoto Server.
JetPhoto separates album data storage from page appearance. JetPhoto server allows user to customize templates for different albums, which will support multiple views, as examples, thumbnail, picture story, Flash-based slideshow and even custom views designed by user. Album data packages can be uploaded by Studio’s WebSync action or FTP.
JetPhoto adopts Unicode text coding, therefore, the website created by JetPhoto supports text display and search in multi-language.
When the photo album is prepared, you can use WebSync to publish album onto web server. All uploaded pictures will be resized and stamped with watermark automatically while publishing. Once the album is published on web server, user can continually modify its content easily in JetPhoto Studio. The web-side online album will be updated and synchronized with the local album automatically, as long as WebSync is acted again. So the only thing you need is to One-Click.
You can also use Website Manager, another module especially provided by JetPhoto Studio, to manage your photo website. For example, to set web page appearance for each online album, or to set an access password for the website.
To learn more about JetPhoto Server, please go there http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=product_server .
Web Sync
When your photo album is organized, you could use WebSync to synchronously publish the album to Web server that is pre-installed with JetPhoto Server software. WebSync embeds FTP engine for uploading the necessary files automatically, so you needn’t do anything to upload files by yourself.
- Click button 'Web Sync', or choose menu item 'Web Album'->'Web Sync - publish album to a JetPhoto Server' to show Web Sync dialog box.
(In Mac version, 'Web Sync' button can be found in Actions panel, but in Windows version, 'Web Sync' button can be found in toolbar of Thumbnail view page.)- Choose 'Resize' tab, set the size of pictures that will be included in the published online Web album. As the default setting, JetPhoto Studio will resize each photo to three copies: a thumbnail-size image (128x128), a preview-size image (256x256) and a standard-size photo copy with custom bounds (default is 640x640). If you use JetPhoto Server to publish your photo album to Web, please keep all settings as default.
- Choose 'Watermark' tab, set the watermark stamped on the online photo copies. You can design the watermark mask image by Photoshop or other image editor software, and save it as transparent PNG, TIFF, GIF or any other general image file (We highly suggest you save watermark mask as PNG file that has a 8-bit alpha channel, GIF is not suggested). Drag the file into the box located in left-top corner of 'Watermark' panel. Then you can also set the position of the watermark stamped on photo, choose Left-Top, Left-Bottom, Right-Top, Right-Bottom or Center.
- Choose 'Server' tab, set FTP connection account to upload the online album. You need first install JetPhoto Server software on a Web server, and enable FTP access on it. The Directory setting should be set as the home path of the installed JetPhoto Server software on the Web server. For example, assumes you have installed JetPhoto server to path ~/Sites/jpserver on your local computer, then the FTP connection account is as the setting below:
Server: 127.0.0.1
Login name: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD
Directory: Sites/jpserver
(Assumes the short name of the account to login your Mac is USERNAME, and its password is PASSWORD)
- Click button 'Synchronize Now!' to publish album data to your website installed JetPhoto Server.
Web Ready
WebReady is another method to publish your album to Web, your could first use WebReady to export album as a file package with a .data postfix in its file name, and manually update this package to your web server later. Your server also need be installed with JetPhoto Server software, and keep all .data packages in 'data' folder.
Besides Web publishing, WebReady has another important usage. The exported file package includes a HTML web page for album preview, so you burn it on CD to send someone who can review your album by his web browser.
- Click button 'Web Ready', or choose menu item ‘Web Album’->'Web Ready - batch resize and add watermakrs' to show Web Ready dialog box.
(In Mac version, 'Web Ready' button can be found in Actions panel, but in Windows version, 'Web Ready' button can be found in toolbar of Thumbnail view page.)- Choose 'Resize' tab, set the size of pictures that are included in the exported album data package. As the default setting, the exported package includes three copies of each photo: a thumbnail-size image (128x128), a preview-size image (256x256) and a standard-size photo copy with custom bounds (default is 640x640). If you use JetPhoto Server to publish your exported photo album, please keep all settings as default.
- Choose 'Watermark' tab, set the watermark stamped on the exported photo copies. You can design the watermark mask image by Photoshop or other imaging software, and save it as transparent TIFF, GIF or any other general image file. Drag the file into the box located in left-top corner of 'Watermark' panel. Then you can also set the position of the watermark stamped on photo, choose Left-Top, Left-Bottom, Right-Top, Right-Bottom or Center.
- Click button 'Export Now!' to export album data package onto your desktop. It includes a HTML Web page for album preview, so you can burn this package on CD, and send it to someone who previews the album by Web browser. Of course, you can also upload this package to the data folder of your JetPhoto Server for full-featured Web publishing.
Website Manager
After uploading your album data package to the JetPhoto Server's data folder by WebSync or WebReady, you can continue to use Website Manager to manage your photo website. For example, to set web page appearance for each online album, or to set an access password for the website.
- Click button 'Website Manager', or choose menu item ‘Web Album’->'Website Manager - manage a remote JetPhoto Server' to show Website Manager dialog box.
(In Mac version, 'Website Manager' button can be found in Actions panel, but in Windows version, 'Website Manager' button can be found in toolbar of Thumbnail view page.)- Enter the FTP connection account to access your JetPhoto Server. You need first install JetPhoto Server software on a Web server, and enable FTP access on it. The Directory setting should be set as the home path of the installed JetPhoto Server software on the Web server.
- Click button 'Connect' to connect JetPhoto Server through FTP connection.
- All settings of the connected site information are displayed in 'Site Info' panel. You can edit Site Information, set Access Control and Site Appearance for your website.
- All online web albums are listed in 'Album List' panel. You can set Appearance Template and Category for each online album, or change their list order.
- Click button 'Update' to save the change on JetPhoto Server.
Flickr
Flickr is one of the most popular web photo sharing services. JetPhoto Studio is a friendly software to help Flickr user to organize photos on desktop computer.
JetPhoto Studio allows user to describe photos with notes, or tag photos with keywords. With only one-click, you can upload selected photos or a whole album onto Flickr. In the mean time, the enclosed Tags and Descriptions will be uploaded with photos, too. It's also allowed that an uploaded album will be as a new Set on Flickr shortly.
- Click button 'Upload to Flickr', or choose menu item ‘Web Album’->'Upload to Flickr' to begin photo uploading to Flickr.
(In Mac version, 'Upload to Flickr' button can be found in Actions panel, but in Windows version, 'Upload to Flickr' button can be found in toolbar of Thumbnail view page.)- For the first time running JetPhoto Studio, software requires your authorization before it upload photos onto Flickr. Click 'Authorize' button, and finish the authorizing process in your web browser.
- Return to JetPhoto Studio, and continue to set uploading parameters in dialog box, such as image resizing, permission setting etc. And then click button 'Uploading'.