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Chapter 11: Share Photos, Videos, and Blogs with
Photo Station
Photo Station is an online photo album integrated with a blog saved on your DiskStation. It makes creating
albums and blogging fun and easy.
This chapter explains how to do the following:
 Create Photo Station user accounts
 Upload and download photos and videos
 Manage the albums
 Manage the thumbnail view
 Customize Photo Station background and theme
 Find photos and videos with the search function
 Manage blogs
Enable Photo Station
Go to Main Menu > Control Panel > Photo Station to enable Photo Station.
After it is enabled, the photo shared folder will be created automatically to contain your Photo Station data.
To enable Photo Station:
Tick Enable Photo Station 4 and click OK.
To edit Photo Station settings:
1 Tick Set new albums as public if you want the uploaded photo albums available to visitors.
2 Click Re-index to reconstruct the index structure of the image files If you found missing images in
Photo Station. The process will be executed in the background.
3 Click OK.
To launch Photo Station, do any of the following:
 Click Launch Photo Station.
 Go to Main Menu and click Photo Station.
 Type the following web address in the address bar of your web browser:
http://Synology_Server_IP_Address/photo/