Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
changes from gray to blue, and you can see a list of all the people who have access to it (as
well as the status of any invitations) by clicking the icon. To stop sharing with someone,
click the X to the right of his name. Sharing a library works pretty much the same way, only
libraries have an “Invite users to collaborate” icon that looks like a two-person silhouette.
Click it, and then enter the email of the person with whom you want to share your library.
You stop sharing the same way you do with albums: by clicking the X to the right of the
name of the person you don't want to share with anymore.
You can upload photos to Revel by adding them to a shared album or by selecting them and
then going to Share→Private Web Album. To send albums from the Organizer to Revel, just
drag the album in the Albums panel and, in the Mobile Albums section, drop it into the lib-
rary you want. You can also drag a Mobile Album onto the Local Albums heading to move it
to that section.
It's important to know that Revel likes JPEG files best. If you send a raw file or a PSD file to
Revel, it automatically creates a JPEG of the file (and in the case of the raw file, a DNG file,
too, so things can get pretty cluttered after a while). If you edit the original of a file you've
shared via Revel, Elements automatically creates a new JPEG and saves it as a version in the
Organizer, and then shares that JPEG to Revel.
If you like, you can tell Elements to upload
all
your photos to Revel (but you probably won't
want to do this unless you have a subscription). Once you're logged into Revel, in the Organ-
izer, go to Edit→Preferences→Online Account/Elements Organizer→Preferences→Online
Account and turn on “Automatically access all my catalog media in online account.” After
that, Elements uploads all your photos to Revel and you can use them on all your computers
and mobile devices. (If you do this, then the Local Albums section of the Organizer's Al-
bums panel disappears.)
If you want to work with photos that are only stored on Revel, you normally have just a
small preview of them in the Organizer. So if you want to do something that requires a full-
resolution photo—like editing or printing the image—Elements has to download it. To tell
Elements to download a photo from Revel, right-click/Control-click the image's thumbnail
and choose “Download original.”
The
Elements Agent
is the feature that gets your photos onto the Revel servers and keeps an
eye on whether there's anything new to upload. The Agent can use a lot of your computer's
processor power, but there are few ways you can control it, as
Figure 2-14
explains. You can
also use the items in the menu shown in
Figure 2-14
to view the status of your Revel uploads
and downloads, and to tell the Organizer to stop syncing to Revel (although going to
