User`s guide

Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Based on DSM 4.2
68 Chapter 12: Share Photos, Videos, and Blogs with Photo Station
Enable Personal Photo Station
Users belonging to the administrators group (if Photo Station's account system is set as DSM accounts) can
enable Personal Photo Station service to allow all DSM users to have their own Personal Photo Station.
To enable Personal Photo Station, you need to enable the following services first:
 Enable user home service (Go to Main Menu > Control Panel > User > User Home
). See "Create User's
Home Folder" for more information.)
 Enable Personal Photo Station service in Photo Station (Go to Settings > General > Personal Photo Station)
 Enable Personal Photo Station in DSM (Go to Options > Photo Station). See “Manage Personal Options” for
more information.
Photo Station Features
Once properly installed and setup, Photo Station provides the below features. For more detailed instructions
regarding these and other features, please see DSM Help, or go to the Settings page and click the Help tab in
Photo Station.
Choose Photo Station User Accounts
When Photo Station or Personal Photo Station is enabled by DSM administrators or DSM users, they become
their Photo Station’s administrator, who can choose to integrate DSM user accounts into Photo Station, or
manage independent user accounts. To choose and manage user accounts, go to Settings > General > User
Accounts.
Create Albums
Users belonging to the administrators group can create albums and upload photos via various methods
depending on which suits you best, manage albums with different functions, view uploaded files with quality
thumbnail for better browsing experience, and edit photos and videos on the Photos page. Go to the Settings
page and click the Help tab for more information.
Share with Social Networks
When you browse your albums, you can share links and upload photos and videos from Photo Station to your
social network accounts, or sync Photo Station albums with Facebook. To manage settings related to social
networks, go to Settings > General > Social Network Settings.
Browse Photos and Videos with Timeline
Browsing photos and videos with Timeline is intuitive and easy. You can navigate the files by scrolling up or down
the mouse wheel to quickly find photos or videos of a specific period of time, and simultaneously view where they
are taken or recorded with Google Maps displayed below.
The Timeline function needs to be enabled at Settings > Photos > Basic Settings before you can browse files
with Timeline. To configure the Timeline settings and play with Timeline, go to Timeline.
Manage Tags for Photos
You can tag your photos with people, locations, and descriptions, and manage people tags, geotags, and
descriptive tags with the add, edit, delete, and confirm functions.
To add tags, go to the Photos page, select any album to which you want to add tags to enter the thumbnail view,
and click Manage.
To batch edit or delete tags, go to Settings > Photos > Basic Settings and click Tag.
Perform Face Recognition
By enabling face recognition function, you can not only configure Photo Station to detect faces and perform auto
recognition, but also identify faces yourselves manually. Without enabling the face recognition function, you are