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# What is it used for?
Photo album is a tool that allows to create albums of pictures that you want to share with others.

# How to see a photo album?
Click on the hamburger menu, and choose **Photos**.

![ Photo_access](en/Photo_access.png)

Then, the default page is this one:
![Photo_view](en/Photo_view.png)

- On the main page, you see your most **Recent Photos**.
- On the bottom left, you can see **Photo Albums**: it is list of your albums.
- In this **Photo Albums** list, you can see that there are three folders that are automatically created:
  - **Recent Photos**
  - **2018-05**: when you add a photo in a post, it is automatically added in a folder that is created using the year and month at the time of the post.
  - **Profile photos**: when you add a photo into your profile, it is automatically added in this folder.

# How to add photos?

You have two ways of adding fotos:
 - Via Dishub's web interface
 - With a File Manager using Webdav

## Via Dishub's web interface
![Photo_add](en/Photo_add.gif)

Click on the album you want to add photo into and click on **Add Photos**.

There are a few options:
- **Enter an album name**: it is automatically the name of the folder you're into. But you can change it and choose to create a new folder.
- **Title (optional)**: photo's name
- **Create a status post for this upload**: that means that a post will be created on your channel with this photo.
  - **Description (optional)**: it will be added into the post that goes with your photo.
- **Locker**: to set the permissions, meaning who will be able to see your photo.

Click on **Upload** to choose a photo.

## With a File Manager using Webdav
WebDAV is especially useful if you use a Gnu/Linux operating system like Ubuntu/Debian. Different File Managers might have different ways of setting up a Webdav folder

Using Lubuntu File Manager:

On the file browsing application (which in windows is called “file explorer”; different desktop environments have a different one, but it is the graphical interface you can use to browse through the files and folders in your computer) you go to “Go”, in the menu.

![](en/Photo_Album_Lubuntu_01.jpg)

- **Type:** WebDAV
- **Host:** hub.disroot.org_
- **Port:** (leave as is, or 80)
- **Path:** /dav/your_user_name_on_hub
- **Login as:** your_username_on_hub

![](en/Photo_Album_Lubuntu_02.jpg)

Your user name is the one you chose in hub.disroot.org , but when you are asked for the password, it is the one you chose for your email account (your_username@disroot).

If you get one, maybe two messages, saying the location has been moved and/or it has not been mounted.

It is because on the address bar, it needs to be: davs://username@etc

Once you input that “s” manually it allows to see your folders and from there you can drag more folders and pictures that will then show on the page.

![](en/Photo_Album_Lubuntu_03.png)

Using Files (Nautilus)/Nemo/Caja File Managers

- Use the network locations option in your File Manager
- On the lower bar type the path of the webdav folder
- Fill your credentials
- Press connect

Webdav path and credentials:
- **Path:** davs://hub.disroot.org/dav/YOUR_HUBZILLA_NAME
- **Username:** Your_DisHub_login_name
- **Password:** Your_login_password

![](en/Photo_Album_Nautilus_01.gif)

**Adding photos and Albums via File Manager**

When you open your Dishub folder in your File Manager you will see Folders with your Profile and cover photos and the folders of your photo albums.
To add a picture to and existing album just copy/paste the pictures to the album you want. To create a new album just create the folder and copy/paste the pictures there.
When you refresh your Dishub web interface, or login again you will see the new images and albuns you added.

![](en/Photo_Album_add_Nautilus_01.gif)

To remove a picture just dele it, to delete an album delete the folder

# How to edit a photo?
If you click on a photo, you then have access to the **Photo tools**.

![Photo_tools](en/Photo_tools.png)

There are a few options:
- Use as a profile photo
- Use as cover photo
- Edit photo

Click on **Edit photo**.

![Photo_edit](en/Photo_edit.png)
You can change its name (**Title**), add a tag in order to find it easier, move it to another album, rotate it, etc.

It is also there that you can **Delete** it.

# How to create an album?
Aa explained above, when you add a photo, you can choose in what folder you want to save it into. But in **Enter an album name**, if you choose the name of a folder that doesn't exist, it will be created.

# How to change the default folder name for posts?
![Photo_settings](en/Photo_settings.png)

Go in your **Channel settings**. There, you can change **Default photo upload folder** to whatever you want. Don't forget to save.