Taking great Nokia N8 photos requires a little practice and skill, as well as our Hardcore N8 photography tips, but sharing the results of your nimble snapping is easy, letting others delight in your digital images, and letting the N8 launch you as the next David Bailey.
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Send a photo direct
The Nokia N8 is fully equipped to send your best photos direct to friends, even if they’re steering clear of social networking, photo sharing services or even if they’re yet to own a smartphone.
Take a photo, tap the prod the envelope icon and choose to send via a message. The N8 will shrink your photo so it still looks great on your friend’s mobile phone screen, but loses the larger file size generated by the Nokia N8’s 12 megapixel camera.
Blast photos over Bluetooth
Buddy in the same room as you? Then you can beam your photographic creations direct to their phone using Bluetooth. Take a photo, then tap the envelope icon and choose to send via Bluetooth, and the N8 will begin searching for nearby phones to receive it. Just make sure your pal has their phone’s Bluetooth features switched on, and set to be “Discoverable.” They’ll soon be prompted to accept your photo, and within seconds they can view it on their own screen.
But Bluetooth isn’t limited to your friend’s phones. Invest in a Bluetooth-equipped digital photo frame, and you can sling photos to it in seconds, without cables. Visit some city centres or outdoor events and you’ll be invited to Bluetooth your photos to a big screen for all to share. Some TVs can even accept photos sent via Bluetooth, and some photo printing stores will let you Bluetooth images you want committed to paper.
Share photos through Facebook
Friends on Facebook? Of course they are. And now you can share photos straight from the Nokia N8 to their Facebook news feeds. To add Facebook to the Nokia N8 launch the main menu, tap into Applications and choose “Social”.
Tap the Facebook logo and enter your Facebook login details. Once your account is verified, tap the Facebook icon again and you’ll see a minuature version of the Facebook homepage.
You’ll see there’s the standard status update box at the top of the N8 screen, with a camera icon next to it. Give that icon a tap and choose “Photo(s) from gallery” to upload a ready-made photo, or “Photo from Camera” to snap something fresh.
If you’re uploading from the Nokia N8’s image gallery, you can select more than one photo to send to Facebook at a time. Just tap the ones you want to share, and if there’s a tick displayed in the top right corner, they’ll be uploaded when you hit “OK”.
Once you’ve chosen your photos, The Nokia N8 Facebook app will let you add captions and tags, just as you would when using Facebook on a full-sized computer. You can also choose which of your Facebook albums it’s added too.
Once you’ve finished tagging and captioning, just hit Upload and let the Nokia N8 work its magic!
Share photos through Twitter
Sending photos to a friend using one-to-one messaging is the most personal way of sharing photos with the Nokia N8. Facebook takes it a step further by sharing photos with lots of friends at once, but Twitter is the best way of showing your photographic skills off to the world.
Any of your Twitter followers can see images uploaded, and are free to share them with their friends so your photographic fame can spread like wildfire online. Before you know it, your Nokia N8 photo could be the talk of the web.
To share photos through Twitter using the Nokia N8, just fire up the Social app from the N8’s Applications menu, tap the Twitter logo and log in using your account details. Once connected, tap the Twitter logo again and hit the camera icon next to the update box to select your photos.
As with Facebook, you can choose to upload one or more images from the N8’s camera roll, or take a fresh photo specifically to send to Twitter, when browsing your N8 photo library, just tap the pictures to share to mark them with a tick, and they’ll be uploaded when you hit “OK”.
Arm yourself with apps
Want to share your photos elsewhere? There’s an app for that. The N8 comes packing Nokia Ovi Store, letting you extend its talents with apps. Say, for instance, you want to upload photos to your Flickr account from the N8? Try downloading Snaptu to do just that.
Want to share photos the old fashioned way, by printing them out and passing them around? The Nokia N8 can help out there too. The HP iPrint Photo app, available from the Ovi Store on the N8’s main menu can beam pictures straight to a printer using a Wi-Fi network. There’s no need to plug in a cable, just beam your photos straight to paper. Even better, the HP iPrint Photo app is free, like many others from the Ovi Store on Nokia N8.
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