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Sharing Digital Photos with ClosR.it
By Joy Stapleton

When you’re sharing your photos on the Internet or via Email you usually don’t want to use a large-sized high-resolution photo because of the additional length of time it takes to upload and download them. But if you want your photos to be instantly viewable in the largest possible size then ClosR is the way to go.

ClosR is a free Web application that allows you to upload high-resolution image files up to 100 MB in size. Anyone viewing your photos can see them in full screen mode and use ClosR’s features to pan around inside the image, zooming in and out, and even rotating the image. You can sign up for a free account at ClosR.it and feature help is available by clicking the Help link at the bottom of their home page.

You can share your photos by inserting the URLs to your public pages in an email. Or you can have ClosR insert links to your photos from Facebook, MySpace, and other online social networks. You can also embed an interactive photo on a Web site by using the script code that they provide you with.

What ClosR doesn’t do is allow you to download the images you’ve manipulated, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck because you can copy the full screen image and paste it within an image editing program. Irfanview is an excellent Windows freeware program with an extensive Help section.

In the example that I’ve provided I opened the original image in full screen view and zoomed in until the head of the cow filled the screen.

Then I clicked on the image so I could drag it to the left and eliminate most of the body from being viewed in the frame.

In MS Windows you can make a copy of your new image by pressing the Print Scrn key (usually found on the upper right side of the keyboard, just above the Insert key).

This will place a copy of the image in the Windows clipboard. Then insert (paste) the image into your imaging program and save it.

The last step would be to crop the image and resave it in order to eliminate the ClosR frame that borders the top and bottom of the images.