Marko's guide to uploading photographs to your MIT webspace
For Windows XP. using 'Picasa' to create the thumnail images and the webpages and using 'WinSCP' to copy them over to the internet.
Step One
Download the two files located here:
http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/cosic/Public/CME/
(right click on each one in turn and select 'save to disk')
Once they're finished downloading, open each file and do the usual 'yes, yes, whatever' installation routine. (if in doubt, hit 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish')
The one called 'Picasa' and will hunt through your computer for all your photographs and make lots of thumbnail images of them to make it easy to look through them. We will use this software to select the photographs we want to upload and make a webpage from them. The one caleld 'WinSCP' is what lets you copy the webpage from your computer onto you MIT webspace.
Step Two
Now we're going to use the 'Picasa' program we just installed to look at our pictures and select the ones we want to upload.
Open the 'Picasa' program and (after the usual 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish' routine) it will hunt through your computer for all your photographs and make lots of thumbnail images of them to make it easy to look through them. This may take some time, but it will only need to do it once.
You should end up with something looking like this:
Double-clicking on any of the thumbnails should open up the picture as shown below:
You can crop/straighten the picture, take out red eyes, mess with colours and contrast etc as you please using the buttons on the left. You can also add a caption by clikcing and typing in the box with the red arrow pointing to it then hitting <enter>. When you're happy with the picture, click on the 'back to library' button in the top left corner of the screen.
We now want to select which images we want in our webpage. To do this, hold down the <ctrl> key and click on the images - the ones you have selected will have a blue border around them:
If you'd like to select all the pictures in that folder, there is a 'select all' button you can click on next to the green arrow below: