3 Simple Steps to Back Up Your Photos In Kodak Gallery
Back up your photos quickly and easily with Kodak Gallery
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!
Step 1: Getting the Photos to Back Up!
The best way to back up photos is to create separate albums with specific names. In Kodak Gallery, this is simple to do. First, however, you'll need to upload your photos into their own albums. Then, it's simply a matter of copying from these original albums into a backup album that you will create.
Click the "View and Edit Photos" page. There, all the albums created in your account will be displayed. On the left side of the screen, scroll down to "More Activities" and click on the "Create an Album" link.
Step 2: Give it A Name
On the album creation page, give the new album a title that includes backup, so you can identify it from your non-backup folders. Enter a description if you like, which likely will note what the album contains. For example, enter the date, which can be anything that makes sense to you -- perhaps the date the backup is created or the date those particular images were taken. ie. "Mar1998 St Pats Parade Backup" and click on "Create Album. Once this is done the original photos chosen from the March 1998 St. Pats Parade album for back up are now safely saved in a new album.
Step 3: Time to Finish Backing Up!
On the next screen you'll see a drop-down window where you can select the album to copy. Choose the appropriate one and then "Copy Photos". Then choose individual or all of your photos from your Kodak Gallery account and hit "Copy".
The next screen indicates that the photos have been copied. Edit each photo, add borders, mark as favorites and more options are available here. You can also create a slide show, but at this stage, all that is needed is the backup of the original photos.
If you click on the "View and Edit Photos" tab again, the backup album is now included with your other photo albums.
As you can see, it's easy and quick to back up your photos in Kodak Gallery.
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