File Station is an online file management center. With the File Station, you can access the NAS across the Internet, manage files using a web browser, quickly find files, play media files, set file and folder permissions, and easily share your files and folders on the NAS.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, those thousand words can eventually add up with every picture and take up a lot of storage space. In the world of digital photography that we currently live in, the words “photography” and “storage” have quickly become synonymous. QNAP NAS gives you the convenience of cloud storage and external drives all in one place. QNAP has done their best stay at the forefront of the NAS market to create solutions that make a photographer’s life easier.
In this blog, we will be talking about a few different ways that photographers can easily upload their photos to their QNAP NAS. The first method applies all QNAP NAS models: mapping a drive. Secondly, you can upload your photos via USB QuickAccess feature available on some of our latest NAS models. And lastly, you can also upload your photos from your SD card directly to the NAS.
So the first option to upload your photo files would be to map a network drive from your NAS to your Mac or PC. For this example, we will use a Mac.
- First step is to click on “Finder” then click on “Go” on the top menu bar.
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- Click on “Connect to Server”, type in the your NAS IP address and click on “Connect”. Here you will be instructed to enter the username/password for your NAS.
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- A menu window will appear where you could select the volumes you want to mount from your NAS. Select volumes and click on “OK”.
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And voila, your NAS drive is mapped. From here, you can easily drag-n-drop the files from your MAC directly to the drive mapped from you NAS. Here are a some video tutorials for both Windows and Mac for your reference.
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Next, if you require a lot of storage from shooting large amounts of photos on the road, you would first need to upload your files to your Mac from your camera. With the Thunderbolt or the USB QuickAccess ports, you can quickly transfer your photos from your Mac or PC to your QNAP NAS in a flash. The connection process is the same for both NAS with Thunderbolt ports or QuickAccess ports. For this example, we will be connecting via a QuickAccess port.
- First you would need to run connect your computer to your NAS via the USB QuickAccess port.
- Run Qfinder, click on your NAS once it pops up on the screen, login and you’re connected. Once logged in, you can simply drag and drop your photos from your computer to the designated folder folder on your NAS.
Lastly, if your NAS comes equipped with a SD card slot for easy and quick upload, you can simply pop in your SD card from your camera to your NAS to quickly store your files. And if your NAS doesn’t have an SD card slot, you can plug in your SD card reader via a USB port. You may likewise copy and manage photos on your SD card to your NAS using File Station. Additionally, you may also access and share your photos with File Station from your Mac or PC, or from your mobile device with the Qfile mobile app.
Regardless of budget or storage capacity, or whether amateur or professional, QNAP has the right storage solution for you. Whether you upload your photos through a mapped drive, via Thunderbolt or Quick Access port connectivity, or with an SD cart slot, QNAP makes storing your photos really fast and easy without ever having to worry about running out of space. You can also easily share your videos or photos with anyone from your NAS with mobile apps as well.
The Photo Station (4.0) is an online photo album used to organize your multimedia content (photos and videos) on the Turbo NAS and to share them with your friends and family across the Internet. With the Photo Station, users can drag & drop photos in a virtual album, which not only spares users the effort to tediously move and copy physical files around, but also helps users save storage space, as users only need to keep one copy of their photos on the NAS when they try to create an album for a special theme. Besides, a smart album can automatically collect contents that match search criteria and help users neatly manage their photos.
Starting Photo Station
Depending on your NAS model, the Photo Station should be enabled by default and can be launched from the Desktop or the Main Menu. If not, please go to the App Center and make sure that the Photo Station has been installed and enabled first (for QTS 4.1 or later versions only) and follow the steps below to prepare for the Photo Station:
| 1. | Import photos and videos to a shared folder on the NAS. There are three approaches you can upload photos and videos to the NAS: 1) Install Qfinder on your PC or Mac, set up a network drive and upload files to your preferred shared folders. For details on setting up a network drive, please check the chapter on Connecting to NAS Shared Folders; 2) Click 'Shared Photos' or 'Private Collection' on the left panel and click 'Import' on the main menu to import photos or videos from the local PC. A new shared folder named with the date that files are uploaded will be created on the Turbo NAS to store your uploaded files (for 'Shared Photos', this newly created shared folder is located under the 'Multimedia' folder; for 'Private Collection', this shared folder is located under the '/home' folder.) A corresponding album will be created under 'Album' as well; and 3) Switch to the folder view browsing mode and drag and drop photos and videos to a preferred folder. Note that with the first and third approach, you can choose which folder on the NAS that you would like to upload photos and videos into. |
The Photo Station supports the following file formats:
Image | bmp (Intel-based NAS only), jpg, jpeg, gif, png, tif, tiff, RAW (arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f) |
Video | MP4 (H.264). For other formats (avi, m2ts, mpg, mp4, wmv, ts, tp, asf, m2t, mov, mod, m2v, mpeg, 3gp, mkv, mts, tod, trp, m1v, m4v, rmp4, divx, flv, rmvb and rm), they need to be converted into MP4 first |
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| 2. | Launch the Photo Station from the Main Menu or the Photo Station shortcut on the Desktop or log directly into the Photo Station (type http://NAS_Name_or_IP/photo/ into a web browser.) |
Note: The admin login credential of the Photo Station is the same as that of the NAS administrator. |
Familiarizing yourself with Photo Station
Menu Bar
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1 | Search Bar | Search photo and video files by title, photo date, tag, rating, or color label. | ||||||
2 | Browsing Mode | Switch between different browsing modes (from left to right: thumbnail browsing mode/list browsing mode/timeline browsing mode/folder browsing mode) to browse photos and videos. | ||||||
3 | Photo / Video Filter | Display photos, videos, or both. | ||||||
4 | Multi-Select | Select multiple items at the same time. | ||||||
5 | Slideshow | Play selected photos as a slideshow and click the down arrow to choose the slideshow speed, effect and background music. | ||||||
6 | Resizing Bar | Resize photos or videos. | ||||||
7 | Refresh | Refresh the current page. | ||||||
8 | Settings | Set content filters, bind with accounts on social networking sites and configure miscellaneous settings.
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9 | Timeline | List photos or videos chronically as timeline. | ||||||
10 | Date Filter | Filter photos or videos by date. | ||||||
11 | Import | Import photos and videos. | ||||||
12 | Sharing | Choose to email, publish, or share the link of an album (this option is only available when the 'Share with the public' option is checked in the album settings.) | ||||||
13 | Album Slideshow | Play all photos within an album as a slideshow. | ||||||
14 | Photo Map | Show the photo map. This feature is only available for photos with GPS coordinates; for photos with no GPS coordinates, please follow the steps in the Geotagging photos section to set their GPS coordinates. | ||||||
15 | Sharing History | Show the history of files that have been shared. | ||||||
16 | Tag Filter | Filter photos or videos by tag. |
Left Panel
| • | Shared Photos: List all photos and videos contained in all shared folders on the Turbo NAS (except photos and videos in the '/home' and 'Qsync' folders) and all photos and videos are only visible to authorized users. |
| • | Private Collection: List all photos and videos located in the '/home' folder, and those multimedia files can be viewed by yourself only. |
| • | Qsync: List photos and videos synchronized from the Qsync service. |
| • | Album: List all virtual albums. Note that all entries listed under an album are only links to the physical files. This can effectively conserve your NAS storage space, as you can keep only one copy of the photos even when you create an album for a special theme. For album operations, please refer to the section on Using Photo Station below. |
| • | Smart Album: List all smart albums. Smart albums will only show photos or videos that match specific conditions chosen by users, such as today in history, random, tag and all files and can save you a lot of effort on photo management. For instructions on smart album operations, please refer to the section on Using Photo Station below. |
| • | Recently: Include photos and videos recently imported (within a month) from local device or taken with a camera or recording device. |
| • | Trash Can: All photos and videos deleted can be found here and right click the deleted items in the Trash Can to recover or permanently delete them. Note that only deleted physical files (instead of virtual links) will show up in the trash can. |
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Right Panel
No | Name | Description |
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2 | Information | Edit and browse photo/video details, tags and descriptions. |
3 | Sharing | Drag files to this area and share them via a link (including three methods: email, social sharing and link.) |
4 | Share a link via email. Specify the sender, recipient, subject and message body of the email and click 'Send' to send the email. Make sure your email account is properly configured. Go to 'Control Panel' > 'System Settings' > 'Notifications' > 'SMTP Server' for email configuration. | |
5 | Social Sharing | Share a link with selected files on social networking sites. Specify the subject and message body and click the social networking site icon to share. |
6 | Link | Share a link by directly pasting it into an email or instant message. Under 'Select Link Format', select the DDNS name, LAN IP or WAN IP address (note that the myQNAPcloud.com domain name is only available after it is registered in myQNAPcloud. Please refer to the chapter on myQNAPcloud Service for details) and HTML format (click to choose a URL link, HTML code, vB Forum code or Alt Forum code) from the drop down menu. Click 'Create Link', specify the name of the album displayed on the page seen as recipients open the link. Copy and paste the URL link in the dialog window to your preferred applications. |
Note: Multiple photos can be batch modified for their date taken property at the same time. To do so, please first select the photos, click the EXIF button on the right panel and modify the Date taken field. |
Using Photo Station
Creating and managing albums
There are two approaches an album can be created:
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| 1. | Switch to the folder view, right click a folder and select 'Create New Album' to turn that folder into an album. |
| 2. | Drag and drop photos or videos in 'Album' on the left panel. |
Right click an album and choose to download, remove, rename, email the link of, publish the link, share the link of that album, or modify the settings of that album (The email, publish, and share options are only available if 'Share with the public' is enabled in 'Album Settings'.)
Creating and managing smart albums
To create a smart album, please click + next to 'Smart Album', specify the name of the album and specify the file type, content source and condition (today in history, random, tag and all files). Right click a smart album and choose to download, remove, rename, reset album settings, email the link of, publish the album or share the album with a link (The email, publish, and share options are only available if 'Share with the public' is enabled in 'Album Settings'.)
Sharing albums
As you create an album, you can choose to share it with other NAS users (choose whether all NAS users can edit the album, or only the album creator/administrator can edit the album) or the public (show this album on the QTS login page and please note that this option is only available for administrator,) or not to share at all (leave both options unchecked), and set the valid period on the album creation page.
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If an album is set to share with the public, you can right click that album and select 'Email' to email it, 'Publish' to publish it on social networking sites, or 'Sharing Links' to generate and paste the album link on your blog, forum, or instant messenger programs. You can still edit the album content later, and the updated slideshows will be presented when viewers click the same link again.
On the other hand, you can also share photos from different albums as you do with the album. To do so, please click the 'Sharing' button on the right panel, drag photos from different albums and drop photos under 'Select Photos' on the right panel and use the 'Email', 'Social Sharing', or 'Link' button to share those photos. Note that the difference between sharing an album and photos from different albums is that for an album, it is the entire album that you specifically created under 'Album' on the left panel. For photos from different albums, they are photos you choose and pick from different albums.
To share photos with your friends on Facebook, please bind your Facebook account with the Photo Station in 'Settings.' After the account is bound successfully, your Facebook friends can log into the Photo Station (http://NAS_Name or IP/photo/) with their account to browse photos from shared albums. To check the sharing history of a selected album, please first click that album and then the sharing history button on the main menu.
Photo and Video Operations
Right click a photo or video, a drop down menu will show up, and users can choose to perform a desired action from the list.
Operation | Description |
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Rotation | Rotate the photo 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise (for photos only.) |
View / Play | Switch to viewing mode. |
Open | Play the video (photo) in a browser window. |
Open with VLC | Play the video in a browser window (please install the VLC plug-in first; for videos only.) |
Sharing Link | Generate a sharing link (as URL, HTML, or script for vB Forum, or Alt Forum) for public albums only (albums that are set as public in 'Album Settings'. |
Download | Download the photo and video. |
Copy to Album | Copy the photo and video to an album. |
Set as Cover | Set to display all photos contained in the album on the photo wall. |
Add to Transcode | Convert the video to the following resolutions: 240P, 360P, 480P SD, 720P HD and 1080P Full HD (for videos only.) |
Add to Sharing List | Add the selected photos or videos to the sharing list. |
Edit (Pixlr Editor) | Edit the photo online (for photos only.) |
Slideshow | Play the photos/videos in this album as a slideshow. |
Remove | Delete photos or videos. |
Set Coordinates | Set GPS information of a photo (for photos only.) |
Add Tag | Add a tag to photos or videos. |
Rating | Rate photos or videos. |
Color Label | Color-label photos or videos. |
Finding your photos and videos quickly
To quickly locate your photos and videos, please be sure to first rate or classify your photos and videos. To do so, please right click the photos or videos and then tag, rate or color label them. To batch mark or classify multiple photos or videos, first click the 'Multi-select' button on the main menu or hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard, select your desired photos or videos and right click the photos or videos to perform desired actions. After photos or videos are tagged, rated, or color labeled, they can be searched by their rating, color label or tag in the search bar.
Viewing photos and videos
Double click a photo to switch to viewing mode and use the buttons on the menu bar for viewing operations.
No | Name | Description |
1 | Set as Cover | Set to display all photos contained in the album on the photo wall. |
2 | Slideshow | Play the photos/videos in this album as a slideshow. |
3 | Rotate | Rotate the photo counter-clockwise/clockwise by 90 degrees (for photos only.) |
4 | Previous Item | Play the last photo or video. |
5 | Next Item | Play the next photo or video. |
6 | Download | Download the photo or video. |
7 | Delete | Delete the photo or video. Please note that the photos or videos deleted in the viewing mode will first be marked with an 'X' on that photo or video and only deleted as you exit the viewing mode. To unmark a photo or video, first select the marked photo or video and clickthe trash can buttonagain. |
8 | Hide/Show Preview Bar | Hide/show the preview bar. |
9 | Full Screen | View the photo or play the video in the full screen mode. |
Playing photos and videos as slideshow
A slideshow is a collection of photos that are played in a sequential fashion at an interval for your photo enjoyment. To play an album as slideshow, select an album and click 'Slideshow' on the Menu Bar to switch to viewing mode.
Use the buttons on the menu bar for slideshow or album operations.
No | Name | Description |
1 | Music | Switch between different playlists defined in the Music Station (from the 'Playlist', personal playlist and shared playlist on the left panel.) Please refer to the chapter on Music Station for details. |
2 | Effect | Set a different slide transition effect. |
3 | Speed | Set the slide speed. |
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6 | Next Slide | Go to the next slide. |
7 | Background Music | Turn the background music on or off. |
8 | Title | Show the photo title. |
9 | Download | Choose to download the played photo or all photos in the slideshow. Note that the photo(s) downloaded will be resized to save network bandwidth. |
10 | Full Screen | Switch between the full screen mode and window mode. |
Geotagging photos and photo map
To geotag a photo, first select a photo, click 'Large Map' under the EXIF tab. Enter the name of the location in the search bar on top and hit the Enter key in your keyboard. Right click the map and click 'Set Coordinates'. To view photos on a photo map, please first click an album and the 'photo map' button on the main menu. This feature is only available for photos with GPS coordinates; for photos with no GPS coordinates, please follow the steps above to set their GPS coordinates.
Media Library and Privacy Settings
Photo and video files in the Photo Station are listed and displayed according to shared folder privileges and media folders settings in the Media Library. For shared folder privileges, only users with an appropriate permission to a shared folder can view its contents in the Photo Station. For example, if a user does not have read/write, or read-only permissions to a certain shared folder, that user cannot see the photos and videos in the shared folder.
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Photos and videos stored in the media shared folders are only visible after they are detected and scanned by the Media Library. To set the Media Library to scan for photos and videos manually or by schedule, please go to 'Control Panel' > 'Multimedia Management' > 'Media Library'. For details on media folder settings, please refer to the chapter on Multimedia Management.
Note: As the media folders in the Media Library are shared by the Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station and DLNA Media Server as the source of their contents, the contents will be affected in those applications if new media folders are added or existing media folders are removed from the Media Library. |
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