Editing Photos, Sharing Photos, and More

You can do a lot more with photos on the Droid X than just view them or create slideshows with them. You can use a surprisingly powerful built-in photo editing tool, share photos with others, and more. To do any of this, when you’ve viewing a photo, press the Menu key, and you’ll find these options:

• Camera. Launches the Camera app so you can take photos. See Taking Still Photos for details.

• Quick Upload. If you share photos with others via a social networking site such as Facebook, or use an online photo service such as Photobucket or Picasa, you can upload photos to it using this option. If you haven’t yet set up the service to work with your Droid X, you’ll have to do that. Just follow the instructions on the website. When you choose this option, the entire album of photos you’re viewing will be uploaded, not just one.

  Tip

  When you’re in the Gallery looking at a collection of photos, hold your finger on a photo, and you come to a screen that has all these same options.

• Share. Here’s another way to share photos with others. Unlike the Quick Upload option, this one shares only the photo you’re currently viewing. You can share it in many different ways, including email, a Bluetooth connection, social networking sites, and photo-sharing sites. Tap the sharing method you want, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

  

• Edit. When you use the Droid X, it’s easy to forget that it’s a computer, and a surprisingly powerful one. And like any computer, it can run powerful photo editing tools. Get to them by tapping this item.

  The first screen offers basic editing tools—adding tags, or rotating a photo. For more tools, tap “Advanced editing”, and you come to a screen that shows all the ways you can edit the photo, such as changing the brightness and contrast, the color and saturation, adding special effects such as turning a color photo black and white, resizing the image, and more. Tap what you want to do, and an easy-to-use screen appears. For example, tap Brightness & Contrast, and the photo loads with two sliders on it, one for controlling brightness and the other for controlling contrast. As you move the slider, you see the editing take effect. When you’re done, tap Apply. To discard your changes, tap Discard.

  

  Tip

  When you get to the Edit tools, make sure to scroll down so that you can see all of them. There are some wild ones toward the bottom. You can add clip art to a photo, put a frame around it, and so on.

  
  

• Delete. Tap to delete the photo.

• More. Leads to three options: Set as, Print, and Settings.

  Tap “Set as”, and you can use this photo as the photo for a new contact (tap Contacts), use the photo as your wallpaper (wallpaper), or use the photo for an existing contact (tap “Set profile picture”).

  Tap Print, and you can print from your Droid X to a retail store that offers remote, wireless photo printing. If your phone knows your location (Customizing Your Photo Shooting), it automatically displays a list of nearby stores with that service. Otherwise, you can search for a store by typing in your location.

  Tap Settings, and you go to the screen that controls slideshow settings, as described on Editing Photos, Sharing Photos, and More.