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title: Photo album
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---
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# What is it used for?
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Photo album is a tool that allows to create albums of pictures that you want to share with others.
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# How to see a photo album?
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Click on the hamburger menu, and choose **Photos**.
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![ Photo_access](en/Photo_access.png)
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Then, the default page is this one:
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![Photo_view](en/Photo_view.png)
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- On the main page, you see your most **Recent Photos**.
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- On the bottom left, you can see **Photo Albums**: it is list of your albums.
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- In this **Photo Albums** list, you can see that there are three folders that are automatically created:
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- **Recent Photos**
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- **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.
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- **Profile photos**: when you add a photo into your profile, it is automatically added in this folder.
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# How to add photos?
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![Photo_add](en/Photo_add.gif)
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Click on the album you want to add photo into and click on **Add Photos**.
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There are a few options:
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- **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.
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- **Title (optional)**: photo's name
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- **Create a status post for this upload**: that means that a post will be created on your channel with this photo.
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- **Description (optional)**: it will be added into the post that goes with your photo.
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- **Locker**: to set the permissions, meaning who will be able to see your photo.
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Click on **Upload** to choose a photo.
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# How to edit a photo?
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If you click on a photo, you then have access to the **Photo tools**.
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![Photo_tools](en/Photo_tools.png)
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There are a few options:
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- Use as a profile photo
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- Use as cover photo
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- Edit photo
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Click on **Edit photo**.
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![Photo_edit](en/Photo_edit.png)
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You can change its name (**Title**), add a tag in order to find it easier, move it to another album, rotate it, etc.
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It is also there that you can **Delete** it.
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# How to create an album?
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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.
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# How to change the default folder name for posts?
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![Photo_settings](en/Photo_settings.png)
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Go in your **Channel settings**. There, you can change **Default photo upload folder** to whatever you want. Don't forget to save.
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