Help for new user sign up

  • Provide a userid that will identify you when you login, but will not be visible to other users. SharePhotos.us does not use your email address as your userid because your email address might change over time.
  • For most Western users, your given name is your first name and your family name is your last name. If you are from another part of the world, you may write your family name first. SharePhotos.us supports both conventions; select the button to indicate how to print your name. (In lists of user names, sorting is done first on family names, then on given names.)
  • Provide an email address where SharePhotos.us can send you messages as part of your account setup. You can change this in the future if you wish, but it must be an account to which you have access now. This may be shared with other users, but separate addresses are better.
  • Enter a password for your account. Anybody who knows your userid and password has full control of your account, so keep the password private!
  • Confirm your password by typing it again. If you copy/paste a mis-typed password, you will have to reset it later.
  • Select the "I'm not a robot" checkbox. If the reCAPTCHA mechanism wants you to prove you are really a person, it may make you do more.
  • Press the large blue "Create my account" button at the bottom of the form.
  • SharePhotos.us will send you an email containing a link that you must follow to activate your account. These emails sometimes take a while to arrive, so please have some patience. If no activation email arrives, select "Log in / Sign up" in the menu bar, click the blue "Log in" button, and click the link to request a new activation email. If you mis-typed your email address, you will have to click the "DELETE" link and recreate your account.
  • When you click on the link in the activation email, SharePhotos.us logs you in and takes you directly to the page selected by Users / Request or change group access in the menu. You will be presented with a list of all the user groups that have been set up by other users; click on "Ask to join" or "Request guest access" for any groups that make sense for you. You will become a member or guest of a group only when one of the managers of that group approves your membership. It is possible to be a member of no groups at all, but the whole point of SharePhotos.us is to share photos with other people!
  • If you were invited to signup for SharePhotos.us, you should see that you have automatically been granted guest access to one or more groups. If membership in any group is more appropriate than guest access, you may click on "Ask to join" and wait for a manager to approve your request.
  • If you want to add a photo that will appear with your name in user lists, select Account / Settings in the menu and click "Choose File" under "Select a profile image". Choose a photo file to use and click "Save changes". (How you choose a file depends upon your brower, whether you are visiting SharePhotos.us on a Mac or PC, or tablet, or smartphone.