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For beginners, photo sharing can seem like a bizarre and magical thing. You click some buttons and your pictures appear on the computer. You click a few more and they shrink, grow, brighten, or turn different colors. One more push and they're off to the world, appearing in inboxes, on websites, and on those strange sites called things like "Facebook" and "MySpace".

Fortunately, this is an easy puzzle to solve. There's no reason that even the most computer illiterate person can learn all about photo sharing in a short amount of time. And once you've tried it once or twice, you'll be amazed at how simple it is and wonder why you haven't been doing this for years.

After you've uploaded your photos to Kodak Gallery [www.kodakgallery.com], and before doing any editing, backing up your photos is essential to protect the original versions. By editing first, accidentally overwriting the first version is a common mistake. Once the original is gone, it cannot be retrieved, unless an original is still on the computer's hard drive or on the camera's memory card.

A good habit is to backup your photos whenever adding more photos and albums and prior to any cropping or editing. That way, the originals are maintained if the editing is not desirable, or heaven forbid, if you accidentally delete a photo from your Kodak Gallery collection.

Fortunately, it's easy to make backups of your photos and albums in Kodak Gallery. In fact, in just three simple steps the process is complete!