How to Share Your Photos Like A Pro
Sharing like a pro
Sharing your photos is one of the best paybacks of photography. Publishing your view of the world to family and friends. Social media and the internet has made it so easy to get your work out in front of other people and show off your creative side. We have all become artists/photo journalists/curators of everything we experience through the power of photography.
There are 2 kinds of photo sharing. Pop-up "look at this" pictures that are the visual appetizers of your life and usually get forwarded in seconds via text or email to pull your loved ones into the moment. Wish you were here.
The other way is how professional photographers handle photo sharing; by sending a download link for the photos rather than attaching the photos themselves. Even though it adds a couple of steps, this method has some big advantages.
It eliminates all the space (and clutter) taken by attachments in messages or mail that people may not want.
It lets you download and save to a location or collection of your choice.
Original size and metadata are preserved.
There is often an online preview of the photos before downloading.
Setting this up on the iPhone is easy.
Make your photo selection and tap the Share button
Scroll down in the Share panel and tap Copy iCloud Link
Paste the link into a message or email and send
The recipient will get a notice that you've sent a downloadable collection of photos and they just tap the link to view and/or download. iCloud keeps the link alive for 1 month after publishing.
The sharing link is cross-platform, too, so it's a handy way to share pictures to anyone, especially if you have a large group of photos to do at once. If the recipient uses Apple Photos with iCloud, they have the option of importing them directly into their Photos Library. Creating a photo share link is also possible by logging into iCloud Photos.
So share your photos like a pro and reduce the clutter in mail and messages.