Overview of my Picturetown
What is my Picturetown
my Picturetown is an online photo sharing and storage service brought to you by Nikon. Nikon provides you with your own personal cloud storage through my Picturetown, allowing you to store and share your photos and videos online, and post them on blogs, Facebook, The service supports a wide range of devices, so you can access your my Picturetown photo collection anytime, anywhere. The ability to upload your photos in their original file formats without resizing makes my Picturetown the ideal destination to store your photo backups. You can incrementally increase your storage capacity to up to 200 GB for a monthly fee. Your first 2 GB are free, so why not give it a try?
Main Features
Photos are shared in my Picturetown as albums. If you share an album with a my Picturetown member, that album is sent to your friend's My Photos inbox. When you share an album, my Picturetown sends a notification email to inform your friend that you have shared the album. This notification email includes a URL to the guest page where the shared album photos can be viewed. Anyone can instantly view the album photos regardless of membership.
With the new my Picturetown, you can now post this guest page URL on your friends' Facebook pages. This is how you can post your albums on Facebook, so the friends of your friends can enjoy your album photos as well. If the popularity of your album increases with the "Like!" button, your album will be viewed by even more people.
Your photos can also be posted to Twitter. Just click the Twitter button displayed on the My Photos thumbnail and you can post a single photo along with a tweet to Twitter.
A detailed look at the latest version
You want to share albums with only a limited number of friends, or you want to share albums but don't want to allow image downloads... We recommend these members upgrade to a Gold Account. One of the privileges of the new Gold Account is the addition of many options including a password option and a download permission option for guest pages when sharing and posting albums.
A detailed look at Gold Account privileges
Posting photos on other sitesmy Picturetown also features additional ways to post photos. my Picturetown has a feature where you can select photos one at a time and transfer and post them to Facebook. URLs and HTML tags to reference images are also configured for each photo so you can publish photos by pasting the URL or tag into your blog or webpage.
Smart photo management
Designed with photo viewing foremost in mind, my Picturetown makes creating albums and searching for specific photos as smooth as possible. Important functions, like downloading or sharing photos and creating PhotoMovies, are easily identifiable by their intuitive icons.
PhotoMovies
Select from one of seven style templates to suit the theme of your photos, and simply choose your favorite photos and music. Create your very own PhotoMovie with a few easy steps, then share it with friends. This feature is perfect for those tired of the same old lackluster slideshows.
For details on PhotoMovies:
Selecting your viewing method
The four viewing options available on my Picturetown – Grid, List, Single, and Map – allow comfortable browsing of your photos. Simply select the most suitable view. You can set the background color for the Grid, List, and Single views individually, so select backgrounds that really bring your photos to life.
Features of the Latest Version
Album and photo sharing has been upgraded.
In addition to the previous sharing methods, you can now share and post photos and Motion Snapshots in Facebook.
Support for Twitter has also been added. Please check out the new my Picturetown with expanded photo sharing support.
Getting Started with my Picturetown
This is a startup guide for my Picturetown. It includes five useful steps for those just starting out with my Picturetown.
Access from a Variety of Devices
- my Picturetown Pad (supports iPad / iPhone)
This iPad/ iPhone application includes three viewing options – Grid, Book, and Map – for browsing your photos, and provides the same album and photo management features found on the Web version of my Picturetown. Naturally, posting on Facebook and Twitter is also possible from this application. Support for iOS5.
- my Picturetown for iPhone (supports iPhone)
This application allows photo sharing and storage via simplified functions and operations from your phone. This is perfect for those that simply want to store and access their photos on my Picturetown on the go.
Supported Nikon Cameras and Software
my Picturetown supports the playback and sharing of “Motion Snapshot files” that can be taken with the Nikon 1 camera system. In addition to using location info to show shooting locations in Map View as in the previous version, you can now view your photos on the map together with data recorded via the GPS log and electronic compass functions of the COOLPIX AW100.
Enjoy my Picturetown more with Nikon cameras.
Intuitive photo editing and correction. Using the veritable toolbox of Nikon image-editing technology, ViewNX 2, you can upload and share photos to my Picturetown without even opening your Web browser. Consolidate the management of photos on your computer and on my Picturetown with ViewNX 2.