Publishing images

Once images are transferred from the digital camera or scanner and processed for online usage they can be published to an online photo album. Photo Album Helper supports and automates this process by providing an option to copy image files via standard file transfer protocol (FTP).

To copy images using FTP

  1. start application Photo Album Helper

  2. click on tab Publish to open the Publish panel

  3. specify the image source directory

  4. set the FTP server address and user account

  5. specify the target directory

  6. press button "Publish images now"

Settings are kept by application Photo Album Helper so that only the source and target directory need to be adjusted slightly when images are published the next time.

Please note: More than one publish tab can be configured with different publishing settings on each tab.

Application Photo Album Helper is meant for use with dynamic web photo albums. It assumes a web application produces albums from a set of image directories dynamically as opposed to photo albums where static HTML pages need to be generated in addition.

Transfer process

All image files found in the source directory are copied to the specified location using FTP. During file transfer Photo Album Helper switches to the log panel and lists the progress. The following rules are used by Photo Album Helper for FTP transfers

Examples

Target directory: my_new_images

Photo Album Helper creates a new directory my_new_images in the FTP root directory. All directories and files are created under /my_new_images on the server.

Target directory: album/2005/my_new_images

Photo Album Helper assumes directory "album" to exist in the FTP root directory. It assumes directory "2005" exists inside directory "album". It opens directory "2005" inside directory "album" and creates directory "my_new_images" there. All directories and files from the source directory are transferred to album/2005/my_new_images.

See also

Using Photo Album Helper

Transferring images

Processing images