Fotki is one of the fewest sites that supports FTP upload/download. By the way, FTP upload is the fastest way to upload photos to your albums.
There are a lot of free FTP clients available on the Internet. We may suggest Filezilla for Windows users and Cyberduck for Mac owners.
When connecting to Fotki, use ftp.fotki.com as an FTP address and your Fotki username and password as login information.
Here is our little visual guide for Filezilla :
Put our host address : ftp.fotki.com
Enter your Fotki user name
And your Fotki password
This is your computer's directory, where you select your photos for upload
Here you can see your Fotki directories. Drag your photos from your computer directory to your Fotki albums.
Note 1: make sure you drag your files to photo album, because, as you know, you can't upload photos to your folders and in this case ftp will give you an error.
Note 2: our FTP can maintain only 2 concurrent connections. Please make sure your FTP client is configured to max. 2 concurrent connections. Otherwise you will get disconnected from the server
Quote of the day : "It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.” Woody Allen.
Who wants to get a 1 year of Premium membership for Free? Anyone? No problem, you can get it with TrialPay now.TrialPay features some very interesting deals from renowned services. When you accepting any offer you like from one of these venues, you will get a 1 year of Fotki Premium for free.
You will be redirected to TrialPay web site. Fill in your contact information
Choose any offer you prefer and proceed to the checkout
As soon as you complete the offer, we will send you an email with instructions on how to redeem your 1 free year of Premium membership
By the way, if your account is paid off for the years ahead, you can surprise one of your friends by sponsoring their account. Just a spontaneous act of kindness, why not? :)
Quote of the day : "Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns." Author unknown.
Welcome to another session of Tips&Tricks from Fotki Team.
OK! Today is the "Comments' day". It is the time to show you how to upgrade your comments skills and bring to a new level, sort of. : )
Did you know that on Fotki you can not only write your comments, but also leave audio comments . No kidding. You can do this is 4 easy steps. Follow us:
Click on "Add Comment" link beneath the photo
Choose "Text/Audio"
Wait until Java loads our recording application and click on "Record" whenever you're ready to speak up
Click on "Save Audio Comment" to leave your comment
Let us hear your voice.
We hope you will love leaving audio comments as much us we do!
Quote of the day: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Winston Churchill.
How are you today? We hope you are alright, because we have some nice tips waiting for you. :)
We believe a lot of you have been using Fotki Journals or other popular Blogging tools and social networks to post photos and keep track of what is going on around you.
Today, we would like to show some cool widgets for presenting your beautiful photos on other sites. Fotki Widgets are small slide shows that you can easily generate for each of your albums and post anywhere on the Internet.
Click on the Widgets tab
Select the widget you like
Adjust settings
Click on "Get Code" button
Post this code on any HTML enabled page
That's all!
Check out the following screen shot:
Here is our humble example : )
Unleash your creativity and show off your wonderful pictures with Fotki Widgets. :)
As always, you are welcome to ask questions and share your ideas.
Statistically speaking one of our most visited pages is "Uploading page". As you may see for the following screen shot, it's not very user friendly and that's what we would like to change.
Right now you have to make at least 2 clicks to get to the uploading tool you want. And we would like to reduce this operation to just 1 click and load one of our up-loaders, right after you click "Add photos" next to your album's icon.
Therefore, we would like to hear your opinion and suggestions on how we can make uploading process as easy as possible.
For a start, here are a couple questions for you:
1. What uploading tool do you use most of the time? 2. What uploader do you think we should load by default on that page? (Java Applet, Easy uploader, One photo at a time) 3. What is your favorite uploading tool and why?
Thanks in advance for your valuable feedback and comments.
Today's camera phones can shoot pretty cool photos - do you know that you can easily share these photos on Fotki? You can simply email your photo from a phone into any album (go into Properties of any of your albums, and see how easily you can setup an email address for each album!)
There are also a couple of nice applications for that available on Fotki Downloads page: http://downloads.fotki.com/
Fotki Mobile is for Android-based phones and Pixelpipe supports all major platforms including iPhone.
Later this year we, will certainty add more options for direct uploading from your mobile devices. So, stay tuned! :)
And, as always, your comments, suggestions and ideas are Welcome! :)
Here is another neat feature, for those of you who actively share photos on other sites. "Add This" button connects you to the most popular social networks. Try it out!
By the way, this feature is fully customizable. If you don't like it, you can easily disable it on your account settings page or hide it from your visitors. Here is the link: http://myaccount.fotki.com/settings/general/
Please don't forget to Tag your photos. First of all, it's very easy, second of all, it will save you a lot of time later, when you or your friends will need to find some particular photos in your albums. When you have dozen of folders and even more photo albums, finding a particular picture may become a challenge. We suggest a simple (and fun!) solution - photo tagging!
1. To tag an entire photo album, click on "Bulk Tagging" in the side menu on your left. Check out the following screen shot:
2. Find your "tagged" photos easily, using a built-in album search function. Click on "My Photo Tags" in the side menu.
Spend some time tagging your photos beforehand and you will be glad you did so later, no doubt about that. : )
We hope this little tip will help you in organizing your photos better, and will also let you have some fun doing it!
Click HERE to see all beautiful photos that won in our December contest rally.
We would like to "Thank you!" all for participating in our contests. Thank you for submitting your beautiful photos and digital art. Thank you for voting and competing.
We encourage our new members to be creative and enter our photo competition. We have a very friendly community, which is always glad to give you positive feedback.
Take your camera with you and go shoot some fun, creative, peculiar and colorful photos.
Work on your artistic skills or simply have fun! :)
Guess what's the difference between sharing your photo memories online - and - being able to show actual pictures to your friend? - Well, some might say: but online you can't show your friend who that person next behind your left shoulder is or what is that weird thing attached to your truck, etc. - But can't you? Really? : )
We are proud to present to you yet another cool feature called "Area Labeling" and "Member Tagging". Now, you can do all of the above and - much more! Basically, there are no limits to your ideas about how you can use these features.
From now on, you can put descriptions right onto any part of your image and tag Fotki members on your photos, or anything and anyone at all, for that matter.
How cool is that! We really hope you will like it as much as we do.
And, as always, we are eager to hear your feedback and suggestions sent to support@fotki.com
Remember that warm feeling when you get a real post card in your mail box, from a real friend? Not just an email or text message - but a post card with a personal lovely picture, sent to you by one of your friends or family members! Yes, it is old-fashioned way, but how wonderful it feels to get one!
Fotki now encourages you to make your loved ones happy, by sending a real, personalized Greeting Card. We have created a very easy postcard editor and all you need to do is just: choose some photo for your card, add your personal message on the back and send it to as many recipients as you wish! We will take care of printing both sides and stamping and sending it - all for just $1.95.
We know we are a little bit late for this Holiday season, but, you know, it's better late than never. :)
Unleash your creativity and surprise someone you care about!
Dear Fotki member! Happy Holidays and Happy 2010 to you!
May the New Year bring much happiness and may all the troubles and sorrows stay in 2009! We wish you and your loved ones joy, happiness and fun in 2010 and beyond!
Fotki.com offers new cool photo products: green and black Tshirts
- add a nice New Year picture - and bingo, you got a cool present under $10!
Some Fotki.com specials are only announced in our blog and our newsletters - so, it makes sense to read it :)
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How are you? We hope you are ready for more good news from Fotki!
Another cool new feature has just arrived from our busy and yet creative programming team. Many of you asked us to create a way for you to track your Fotki Friends' activity and photo updates. Well, now you can do that with Fotki Feed! Here is the link : http://friends.fotki.com/feed/
You can now see your Fotki Friends latest uploaded photos. And don't forget to leave your comments, your friends will surely appreciate your feedback.
Let us know what you think of this feature and what you feel we should add to it in the future?
Some of you have probably noticed that recently you've started getting notifications with comments left by other users. And, most likely, some of you wonder why is that?
Recently we have been working on a new system, that will allow you to track comments and replies made by other users to the photo where you've left your comment. It may sound too complicated, but it's really not. :) Please let us explain.
What we are trying to accomplish with this feature, is to offer more easy and cool ways of interacting between Fotki members. We would like to encourage Fotkins to share feedback with each other.
We'd love to hear YOUR suggestions regarding developing a networking side of Fotki. What would you like to see on Fotki in terms of communicating between members?
Thanksgiving - the time to count your blessings and to tell people you know how much you appreciate them. We, at Fotki, also celebrate this Thanksgiving - and we are thankful about many things - of course, most importantly, our friends and family - but also very thankful for Fotki community members.
To commemorate that:
1. We concocted a new membership scheme starting at just $1.25 a month, to THANK YOU for your support.
2. We created these Thanksgiving designs:
3. Please choose which ones you like,
upload your photos, or photos of the people and things you care about,
and order these special Thanksgiving photo gifts - they are also discounted by 20% for you from today and until December 2.
Click here to see for yourself!
Thanksgiving virtual Gifts
Treat your best friends with one of our brand new virtual gifts!
* gifts are absolutely free
for our Premium members
And starting today, and until December 2, Fotki Premium Membership sale at unbeatable prices starting at $1.25 a month to THANK YOU
Click here to see for yourself!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Your Fotki Team (WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU)
We hope you had a great time making costumes and cutting out pumpkin faces. =)
We know some of you has already uploaded Halloween photos to Fotki albums.
Don't keep it just for yourself and share with all the great folks on Fotki.com!
Here are some really nice photos, we've found in your public albums:
We've got some wonderful news for you! Fotki photo contests now have a dedicated blog, where we will announce contest winners and publish all Fotki contests related information. Links to this new blog will be added to Fotki front page and top of Fotki Blog page shortly.
Happy (but spooky!) Halloween to you, dear Fotkin!
No-no! don't get scared (yet), we are not trick-or-treating you ;)
we are just writing to say: have a great holiday, and consider these awesomely fun designs!
Yes:
PUT on a scary outfit or yourself or your friend, child, dog, cat, pumpkin (?)
GET yourself/him/her/it photographed
UPLOAD a photo to your Fotki account
ORDER these Halloween-themed designs from Fotki at 20% off from today until November 5
Check out some cool designs here!
Spooky virtual Gifts
Treat your best friends with one of
our brand new Halloween themed virtual gifts!
* spooky gifts are absolutely free
for our Premium members
And starting today and until November 5 - a very scary Fotki Premium Membership sale at very funny prices!
Click here to see for yourself!
And - happy Halloween from all of us at Fotki!
Your Fotki Team (WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU)
Fotki introduces its brand new Affiliate Program, where you earn money from every purchase your friend makes.
Here is how it works:
And here is a quick guide on how to join the affiliate program:
Open your "My Account" page and click on "Activate" button in Affiliate Program section
Read and accept our "Operating Agreement"
Copy affiliation link and invite your friends to join Fotki site using this link
As soon as invited person upgrades his/her Fotki account to Premium membership, you will see your up-to-date commission report by going to the Affiliate Program page.
Check the earned balance and request a payment from Fotki.
Finally, here is what we will share with you - COMMISSIONS
What makes our commissions DIFFERENT? Well...
The amount – no other photo site pays you as much. (Bring us a comparable ad from any competitor (temporary promotions excluded), and we will beat the price!)
The scope – we are the largest of all independent photo sites, and the most international one too – Fotki is present in 215 countries, and we’ll pay you commissions on any worldwide subscribers, and using not only US payment methods.
Sometimes people take time to make decisions – well, we have the longest "conversion period pledge" of all of our competitors: if a customer you brought converts within 90 days, we still owe you. (Again, bring us a comparable pledge from any competitor (temporary promotions excluded, and we will beat it.)
Don't you just love getting gifts! (And giving them too, we suppose?) :) > Well, now is your chance! - Surprise your Fotki friend with a virtual gift! Send a cute smiley to a buddy you miss or a lovely heart to a person you adore. It's a totally cool new way to say "Thank you!", "Hey dude, check my pictures!", "I love you!" and a lot more - your fantasy is the only limit...
How do you send a gift? You are just a couple of clicks away! - Visit the Fotki account of a friend to whom you'd like to send a gift, click on "Send a virtual gift" link at the top of your friend's page, then pick a gift and write a message which will appear next to your gift. You may send a gift anonymously (risque and intriguing!) or sign it with your Fotki username, you can add your own text too. There is also an option to show your gift only to the recipient (by default all gifts are visible on person's About Me page). Enjoy your gifts, fellow Fotki members! :)
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