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How to create your own free website to share pictures

By Staff | Dec 8, 2016

In photo sharing on the Mac, you can create your own free webpage and place it on the Internet so people can see all of your photos. If you’re having a family gathering, a customer or company that you need to send 20 photos, most likely your e-mail provider will tell you that it only allows four at a time.

Creating your own personal free website will allow everyone to see them. Here is how to create it: open up the Photo program on the Mac and notice the column on the left that’s labeled Shared. The first label in the column is named Activity, so now you want to create your own label that will display underneath Activity. Just click on All Photos to display your collection and then start choosing the ones you want by holding down the Command key and clicking your mouse over the ones you want. When finished selecting, click the icon on the top right that has a square box with a pointed arrow in it. Choose iCloud Photo Sharing, click on the + box and create a name. Click on Create. Now on the left side under Shared is your new titled album that you just created. Click on it to see the photos.

Now comes the fun part: once you are looking at your photos in your new named folder, click on the circle with a person located inside it on the top right next to the icon with the box and arrow in it that you just used. Select the box Public Website, which will create your new website showing in blue letters. You can copy the website down, send it to people and even copy it to Safari and go to it yourself.

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