How can I share dotphoto albums, slideshows or individual photos?

dotphoto’s Share button provides instant links to albums, slideshows or individual photos. Tap the green Copy button, and then paste the links wherever you like to share: emails, blogs, Facebook, Tweets, Reddit, discussion boards, or wherever you like to share photos.

How to share photos, album & slideshows

How can I share just one dotphoto album without showing my other albums?

We get this question a lot. If your albums are not protected by a guest password, they are public and can be seen by anyone invited to your album or MyWebsite.

The simple solution is: (1) Add a guest password to your albums in MyAccount and (2) Apply a different password to an album or group of albums that you want to share. 

To test what a guest will see, sign out of your dotphoto account, open a private browsing window, and sign in as a guest, or paste your sharing link into your browser URL

How to see what a guest sees

ChangeMyFace shows how we might look in 10 or 20 years

Share a photo directly from dotphoto to ChangeMyFace to see how you might age.

Lifestyle attributes will dramatically affect aging. For instance, to produce the 20-year result on the far right, we chose a junk food diet, heavy smoking, low sleep, steady drug and alcohol use, high stress, high sun exposure, and heavy pollution. She’s had a tough life, but that’s one of the uses of aging software: to help us understand the impact of our decisions. Other uses include finding missing persons and demonstrating medical and skin treatments

How to share a photo from dotphoto to other websites

ChangeMyFace Demo

The Best Little Frame Shop in New Jersey – and probably anywhere

“Where did you get that beautiful frame?” A visitor had spotted the framed print waiting for delivery. “It picks up the colors in the painting.”

“It is beautiful, isn’t it?” I agreed. “The best part is that dotphoto allows you to see the finished frame even before you order it. If you’ve ever tried to frame something, they show you corners, and you hope for the best.”

  • What you see is what you’ll get: design it, see it, order it.
  • Custom-cut for your image – not limited to standard sizes like 16×24 or 30×40
  • Try hundreds of frames before ordering
  • Try multiple mats with different colors
  • Choose the glass you want
  • Includes free heavy-duty wall hangers
  • Free Shipping for Club members
  • We guarantee the workmanship.

How to design your own exquisitely framed print

Super Hangers Included


Our frames include heavy-duty interlocking hangers. Attach one set to the wall, and slide your framed print over them for a safe and sturdy installation.

Other websites we like: Stephen Wilkes Day to Night Photos


Stephen Wilkes creates “Day to Night” photographs by planting himself in one spot for 24 hours and snapping as many as 1,500 photographs of the same frame.

When he’s done, he chooses the photos that capture the greatest hits of the 24-hour period, and lays them over one another to create one grand image. The result is stunning.

Stephen Wilkes Day to Night Portfolio

Add Information to the Front of a Photo

My grandparents displayed framed photos of people in black tie dinners on a guest room wall. I will never know who the people were and what they were celebrating. The significance of many photos – perhaps most – is lost to history because most photos are unmarked.

dotphoto enables you to add titles and names to the front of any photo with the dotphoto Editor. Share your family history by adding some narrative to important photos. You can keep the original photo in your dotphoto account as well as the annotated version.

How to Add Events & Names to the Front of a Photo

Back-Printing is Back!

How to set up back-printing in your account
Back Printing Options

dotphoto’s small-print lab has installed new back-printing equipment that will again reliably print on the back of small photos including 4×6, 4xD, and 5×7.

The default back-print is the photo file name or caption and the photo capture date or upload date. The back-print field is 40 characters long. 

You can set your default back-printing in your dotphoto account’s Printing Options

How to Print Captions, Dates, and Custom Text on the back of your photos

dotphoto wins Best Photography Mobile Website for 2021

dotphoto wins Best Photo Mobile Website

dotphoto wins Best Photography Mobile Website for 2021
dotphoto’s responsive mobile display, convenient command structure, and comprehensive upload makes dotphoto work as well on mobile as on a desktop. No need to install and update apps!

Add dotphoto to your phone’s home screen

iPhones: add dotphoto to your iPhone home screen

Android Phonesadd dotphoto to your Android home screen

Why the Mobile Web is Replacing Apps
When the web first started, photos transferred very slowly at 300 bits per second. Today, the average speed of wireless 5G is is 50 megabits per second – so fast that many people are disconnecting their cable and fiber landlines. We no longer need apps as intermediary software to handle slow transfer rates. Everything can happen in the cloud.

How to sell photos at dotphoto

Every month, photographers, newspapers, clubs, schools, museums, and artists earn thousands of dollars by selling their photos on dotphoto.

Turn your uploads into money.
dotphoto fulfills your orders, handles customer service, and sends you money! Here’s how:

How to sell at dotphoto

dotphoto frees up your time and handles customer service.
dotphoto fulfills your orders — and also handles problems. If a shipper loses an order, we re-print it at no cost to you. If a customer’s download link goes into their “spam” box, we take the call and re-send their link. If there is a quality problem, we ensure that your customers are happy. At the end of the year, we send your tax record — a 1099 form for accounts that earn over $600 (PayPal handles 1099s for its payments.)

How does dotphoto protect my photos from being stolen?
How can I change the dotphoto logo to my logo?
How can I sell more?
How much do I make?
How do I get paid?
How can I set up a Zoom call for help setting up my selling features?

Send a letter from dotphoto


People often don’t respond to emails. Email addresses change, emails are ignored, or email systems shunt messages into an unmonitored box – even though you might be a good friend.

At dotphoto, when we want to remind people that they have photos in an abandoned account, we sometimes send a photo letter. A dotphoto letter often reaches people who can no longer receive emails. Also, you can send a note right from your desk that is printed on photographic paper and stands out from other mail.

How to send a photo letter through dotphoto
There are two ways to create a photo letter:

  1. Using dotphoto’s image editor, create a text and photo message, and send it by mail.
  2. Using your own desktop software, create a JPG image that fits a 4×6, 5×7 or 8×10 print. Upload it to dotphoto, print and send. You can also write a letter in your word processor, capture it on your screen, and send it as a photo.

Step-by-Step How to Make a Photo Letter

Colorizing Photos and Slideshows

Slideshow of first celebrities in history photographed and colorizedWe collected and colorized some of the first photographed celebrities in history to create this dotphoto show.  Among others, these include probably the first person born to be photographed, sixth president John Quincy Adams, a 16-year-old Emily Dickinson, a survivor of the Revolutionary War, Harriet Tubman, the Wright Brothers, and more.

Learn more below on how to colorize your older images in one click. The ideal size for a dotphoto slide? 1350 pixels wide by 900 pixels tall.

First Photographed Celebrities in History – Colorized!

Other websites we like: Photomyne Colorize App

1-step colorizationThe Photomyne web app colorizes black and white photos in one step. Could you do a better job if you were an artist and spent an hour on each image? Maybe, but this colorizes in a single step. We used it for the celebrity slideshow and for this photo taken of a nurse in the 1940s. You can upload your black-and-white photos to Photomyne directly from dotphoto.

1-Step Colorization

The Comedy Edition

Norm Macdonald on the evolution of photographyWhen beloved comedian Norm Macdonald passed away, a video circulated of Norm explaining the evolution of photography in about a minute. As always, he was right on target.

We’ve collected some other photography jokes, which we hope you’ll enjoy. Here’s to Norm, whose dry, laugh-out-loud humor we will dearly miss.

Norm Macdonald on Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY JOKES

My wife emailed me our wedding photos, but I couldn’t open any of the files. I have trouble with emotional attachments.

INTERVIEWER: What makes you think you can be an executioner?
PHOTOGRAPHER: I shoot people and sometimes cut off their heads.

HOW TO IRITATE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER
“After you take that shot with your camera, can you take one with my phone?”

The woman next to me on the train pulled out a photo of her husband and said, “He’s handsome, isn’t he?”
I said, “If you think he’s handsome, you should see my husband!”
“Why?” she said. “Is he hot, too?”
“No,” I said. “He’s an optometrist!”

I just got a photo from a “speed camera” through the mail.
I sent it right back – way too expensive and really bad quality.

I have a photo of me and the lead singer of REM. That’s me in the corner and that’s him in the spotlight.

I found a ghost who wanted to pose for a photo! Unfortunately, it came out underexposed. The spirit was willing, but the flash was weak.

A woman goes into a pharmacy and asks for cyanide. The pharmacist is shocked, and asks, “Why do you need cyanide?”
“I plan to poison my husband”, she tells him.
“I’m sorry, but there’s absolutely no way I can give you cyanide for that,” the pharmacist says angrily.
The woman reaches into her purse and takes out a hidden-camera photo of her husband sleeping with the pharmacist’s wife.
“Sorry,” says the pharmacist, “I didn’t realize you had a prescription.”

Teach your kids about photography, and they will never have enough money to buy drugs.

I’ve been giving my friends T-shirts with their photos printed on them for their birthdays. Half of them think it’s hilarious. The other half want to know how I got pictures of them sleeping.

A man is on a photo safari in Africa.
He finds an elephant in distress, lying in the bushes. The elephant has a sharp rock embedded in the bottom of its foot. The man carefully pulls the rock free, and the elephant gets up and strolls away.
A decade later, the man is back in his hometown when a visiting circus puts on a parade. Watching the animals pass, the man makes eye contact with a large African elephant. The elephant immediately turns toward the man, picks him up in its trunk, slams him on the pavement, and stomps the life out of him.
Different elephant.

I finally figured out why I look so bad in photos.
It’s my face.