Sisters Pet Pics’ Blog

Although you can enjoy whatever there is to enjoy here at Sisters Pet Pics Blog without doing anything but visit and read, you can get the most by participating in discussions about your photos and your pet.  How can you do that you ask?  Easy.  You can begin by commenting on photos I have posted.  Give me your opinion…I’m thick skinned about critique, so don’t worry.  I have learned sooo much from others’ critiques and you will learn too as you critique another photograph.

First things first.  You must register at Sisters Pet Pics Blog in order to post or comment.  This is how you do that:  On the left side below the headings, Subscribe To Sisters Pet Pics Blog, Categories, Links, and Our Favorite Blogs , you will see Login and a short form.  Hold it, not so fast.  First select the “Register” link below the ‘Login’ button.  This will take you to an Official Wordpress screen.  Just enter a Username.  Pick something you can remember as you cannot change it.  Then a valid email address.  Your password will be mailed to you after you select the ‘Register’ button.  If you see a yellow bar at the top of the Wordpress screen everything is going as planned.  Now go directly to your email client and wait for the email message from the friendly folks at Wordpress.  There it is!  Yea.  Okay, copy the password they gave you and go back to the Wordpress screen and paste it in the ‘Password’ field.  Hit your ‘Enter’ key, and by jove you’ve done it.  If you select the ‘Remember Me’ box your username and password will load automatically when you return to visit…which we hope you do, and often!  The first time you login the front page will be your Dashboard.  Look around.  You may change your password to something meaningful in your ‘Profile’.  We can’t see your password so if you forget it you can ask for a new one which will be sent to your email address.  While you’re at it, why don’t you subscribe to our newsletter, Tips & Techniques To Better Pet Photography.  There’s a form in the left sidebar for that as well.  Hereafter when you login you will get to your Dashboard by selecting the link in the left sidebar.

Now you can post one of your photos.  Tell us about the subject and about the photography.  Don’t be intimidated, we’re very gentle here.  Next thing to do is to pick any of the free image hosting folks.  I have Photobucket, but Flickr is very popular as well.  I can’t stress enough that unless you don’t care if others download your photo for their own use you should watermark all images.  Okay, here’s how it works:

1. Select Photobucket or Flickr (those are the only ones I know about but there are more – explore if you’d prefer).
2. The instructions that follow will pertain to Photobucket which is the one I use, but other subscribers may assist with other image galleries.
3. Select the ‘Join Now’ button.  It’s free and all it requires is a username and password on the first screen.
4. The second screen requires first and last name ( I sometimes place initials in screens like this), email address (this must be valid), gender (what the…? Oh well), birthday (sheesh!) and zip code (okay, I just don’t get this).  The last is the security code.
   1. I’ve been a member for years and receive very few emails from them and you can eliminate all if you tell them in your preferences.
5. Last step of the registering process is to select the ‘I Accept’ button.  You may read about what that means by clicking the ‘Terms of Use’ link.
6. ‘Skip’ the special offers and you’re ready to upload pictures.
7. It’s very easy to upload pictures. The ‘Upload Pictures & Video’ screen has a ‘Choose Files’ button which will let you navigate to the photo of your choice.
8. There is a file size limit of 1 meg but I would pick the biggest file size Photobucket will allow.
9. Over the thumbnail you will see edit, move, share and delete links.  Select the ‘share‘ link.  Then select the ‘Get Link Code’ tab.  Make sure Clickable Thumbnail is selected, then make sure ‘Always’ is selected as well and click ‘Save’.
   1. This step only has to be done once
10. Now you are ready to share.  Drag your cursor over the image and from the flyout menu click HTML Code which will select the code.
11. Ctrl-C on a PC or Command-C on a Mac copies this code which can be pasted into the body of a post right here on Sisters Pet Pics Blog.

To comment on Sisters Pet Pics Blog select the Leave a Comment link in the grey bar at the bottom of each post or select the title link of each post which will take you to the full text of the post with a ‘Leave a Reply‘ form at the bottom of the page.  If you would like to post a photo of your own, just paste the code you’ve already copied from Photobucket into the body of the comment and it will show as a thumbnail which can be selected by any of us to see a larger image.

That’s pretty much it…so NOW you can share your pet pictures, photographs, images, captures, pics or whatever you deem your stuff to be.  If you have wildlife photos that you would like to share do that too, we don’t mind.  Heck, I always think of the birds, squirrels, raccoons and opossum in our yard as “ours”, so have at it.  We will take you as seriously as you like and will always critique with respect.  So get sharing!