Let’s say you are going to a concert, a party or any event that you feel like sharing almost in real time. Or like me, you have a young baby at home and you want to share pictures with your loved ones. Most of my family lives abroad and my parents complain about not receiving enough pictures of their Canadian grand-child. I use Windows Live Photos on a regular basis and that works very well for us. Sometimes I find it super convenient to publish pictures directly from my smartphone, no need to get the memory card out or plug any cable. There is a great feature in Windows Live photos that allows you to publish photos by sending an email with the photo(s) as an attachment.

Here is how to do it in just a few very simples steps, and you only have to set it up once:

Step 1:

Sign-in on your Windows Live Photos account (http://photos.live.com).

Step 2:

Create an album by clicking on “create album”, and choose who you want to share it with. For example, I created an album called “Live Pictures”:

Step 3:

No need to add any picture at this point, so let’s just cancel:

Step 4:

Go in Options, and select E-mail publishing

 Step 5:

Turn on e-mail publishing by checking the box.

Then type the email address(es) that you are going to send the picture from. For example, any email address that you had set up on your smartphone, like Hotmail or your work email.

Lastly, type a secret word for security purposes. So no one else but you can publish a picture in your album.

Step 6:

In this section, you can associate a keyword with a specific album. For example, I am going to associate the word “live” to the album I just created called “Live Pictures”. This allows you to publish photos in different albums. As you can see below, I created earlier an album called “Party”, the keyword “party” will allow me to publish pictures to this album.

Step 7:

Now all I have to do now is email the picture as a attachment to the email address cid-eadf6256f4efe35f.live.secretword@spaces.live.com to publish photos in the album “Live pictures”.

The email address is composed like this: your_id#.album_keyword.secretword@spaces.live.com

Because the ID# is quite long, I strongly suggest that you copy and paste this email address in your contact list. Then, from your smartphone, you just email the picture to that contact. There is a way to have a friendlier ID# thanks to Windows Live Spaces, send me an email if you are interested.

Depending on your Smartphone, there are different ways to email this picture as an attachment. You will be able to do that from your Windows Mobile phone, your iPhone or your Blackberry.

If you have any question about this tutorial, or if you would like to see other tutorials, send me an email crazybob@live.ca

AG

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