Pinterest in Russian is a convenient and easy way to share photos and messages
Against the background of the all-consuming rapid growth in the number of registered accounts in such photo hosting sites as Instagram and Flickr, there are also not so well-known, but by no means less convenient Internet services, where there are all the means for sharing and orderly storage of photo images. These services include the Pinterest social web service in Russian, which allows you to create thematic collections of your favorite pictures and add photos online. Developing since December 2009, the project took its rightful place in the category of the most popular sites according to Time magazine, after which the number of people using photo hosting services began to grow in giant leaps. What is the secret to Pinterest's success? Let's try to figure it out.
Registration and Pinterest Basics
Official page of the project - www.pinterest.com.
To take advantage of all the advantages of the service, you need, as always, to register. Enter your e-mail and password in the appropriate fields, and click the "Register" button.
It remains to indicate only the first and last name on the next form, as well as age and gender. This completes the registration process. We press the "Join" button and proceed to work with the service itself.
An alternative way to sign in is to connect using Facebook authentication. In this case, you do not need to specify any data, just click on the “Login through" button in the previous window and wait a few seconds.
The first time you launch Pinterest, you'll be prompted to choose 5 topics to follow, whose photos will appear on your wall. You can always change this choice later. Select the 5 categories you prefer, click "Finish" and move on.
In the next step, you can find Facebook and Twitter friends who are already on Pinterest. As with all social services, you will be able to follow your friends' posts, likes, and boards (if you're new to the term "board," on Pinterest, this word means a named, thematic collection of photos that the user creates manually. Thus, you can store pictures from the same category in the same folder). If you want to search for friends, click the big blue button (however, you can skip this step by clicking the "Skip" button).
After the subscription to friends updates is ready, click "Finish" and proceed to the last iteration of the preliminary setup.
In the final phase, the service will offer to install a Pinterest button for the browser, which allows you to quickly add pins with photos to the boards. She certainly will not be superfluous. In addition, when you hover over any picture posted on web pages, a small spectacular Pin it icon will flaunt in the corner.
Therefore, feel free to click "Install".
To completely finish the pre-configuration phase, we recommend that you go to the mailbox and confirm the account registration there. Although this can be done later, all functions become available at this point.
In fact, the web service work form is a set of photos that are displayed in accordance with the categories you selected at the beginning. What can be done here? First, you can add pictures to boards (collections). To do this, hover over the image you like and click on the Pin it icon.
You can put a Pin and enlarge the image to full screen. The source of the photo is also visible here, and you can go to the website where this photo is published.
You can leave comments on pictures on Pinterest below, under the photo.
Secondly, you can create your own image collections, or boards. To do this, click on the username in the upper right corner. You will be taken to the profile page.
Here you can see all the data about the activity of the user of the service. To create a new board, click on the corresponding button.
Next, you will be prompted to provide general information about the board: its name, what topic it belongs to. In addition, you can attach a map to each board (so if the pin contains information about the location of the shooting, you will immediately see this information on the collection's profile page).
Another feature - you can make the board secret, that is, only those friends you invited can see it. For other people, the board will remain invisible. However, such a board can be made public at any time, so it’s not worth it to be especially philosophic here. Co-authors of the collection can be cited as copyright protection so that it cannot be distributed for commercial purposes. When all required fields are filled in, select Done.
So, the board is created. Now, when you try to put a pin, a new category will be displayed in the list of available categories, and you can attach a pin to it.
How to upload a new hand-made image to the service? It is enough to go to the category page, and move the cursor to the + icon on the left.
On hover, a button will appear "Load Pin", click it.
Further, everything is simple: specify the path to the uploaded image, add a description to it if you wish, specify the board in which it will be saved and attach a pin. That's all, now the subject of your creativity will be available to a wide audience.
If there are no pins on the board yet, the "+" button is in a different place. Don't be surprised, usability is clearly one of the strengths of Pinterest creatives.
A few words about how to send a message to friends. To send a message, click on the icon with two pushpins at the top - a pop-up subform will appear. In it, go to the last tab "Messages" and select "New message". Messages can be sent directly to e-mail, or to contacts from social networks after a simple profile authentication.
By the way, using the other two tabs, you can follow subscription updates and like notifications on your pins.
Service setup
As for customization, the authors of the resource have taken care of many ways to optimize user interaction with the site. This includes changing the language, and maintaining privacy when the profile is cached by search engines, and even using the web pages you visit to customize the displayed recommendations and advertising banners in the service, but first things first.
To go to the settings page, click on the profile name at the top - your account page will open.
Now let's open the form with the settings themselves - to do this, check the gear icon a little lower and select "Account settings" in the drop-down list.
To simplify navigation, the available options are divided into categories, so you can hardly get lost in the variety of settings. All basic settings are concentrated in the first tab "Account Basics". First of all, you can change the interface language (more than 30 languages are available) by making a choice in the menu with the same name.
You can also hide your Pinterest profile so that it doesn't show up on search engines, thus protecting your privacy. To activate this option, toggle the corresponding checkbox and confirm your choice on the next form.
The rest of the settings include a selection of notifications about pins, likes, comments and subscriptions, integration with social networks and choosing the personal data that you want to specify here.
It should be noted that for owners of mobile gadgets based on Android and iOS, developers have created applications for accessing Pinterest also in Russian with an exclusive design, but the functions in these applets are almost the same.
Thanks to an elementary and intuitive interface, constant refinement and improvement of the available functions by the manufacturer, it is worth hoping that the creators will not stop there and will continue to delight their users with new sweets and donuts.