The document covers empowerment technologies, focusing on online platforms, web design principles, and image manipulation using Photoscape. It provides a detailed guide on how to upload and share images on Photobucket, outlining each step from account creation to sharing options. Additionally, it explains HTML as the primary markup language for web pages, emphasizing its role in structuring documents and facilitating information sharing.

1. EMPOWERMENT
TECHNOLOGIES
The Nature and Purpose of online platforms and applications
Basic web design principles and elements
Web page design using templates and online WYISIWYG platforms

2. Creating and Manipulating Images using
Photoscape
On Photoscape’s main screen, you will see the many
features it has that you can use for creating web
content as follows:
1. Viewer – a picture viewer with features the same
with most image viewers like changing image
orientation

3. 2. Editor – alters the appearance of multiple images
3. Batch Editor – alters the appearance of multiple
images
4. Page – Arranges several photos to create a single
one; similar to a mosaic

4. 6. Combine – links several images together to form a
bigger image
7. Print – readies pictures for printing
8. Splitter – divides a single photo into multiple
parts
9. Screen Capture – captures the screen and saves it

5. 10. Color Picker – grabs a pixel from your screen to
be used in editing
11. Raw Converter – converts raw images
(uncompressed images from digital cameras) to
JPEG format
12. Rename – allows you to rename a batch of
photos
13. Paper Print – useful tool for printing your own
calendars, sheets, lined paper, graph paper etc.

6. Sharing Photos with Photobucket
There are plenty of free image hosting sites in the
internet, and Photobucket is one of the oldest. The
list shows how you can share your media via
Photobucket.
1. First, sign up for a Photobucket account on
Photobucket.com You can also login using Google+
or your Facebook account.

7. 2. Once your account is logged in, click the Start
Uploading button.
3. A new page will load allowing you to drag and
drop your photos or to choose them manually or the
entire folder to upload. Select a folder, then feel
free to upload any photos you have right then.
4. Once selected, a progress bar will appear
indicating that the image is uploading. This may
take a moment and will depend on your internet
connection.

8. 5.Once you are done uploading you will see the
following:
a. View Uploads – views photos you just uploaded
which also grants you options to share and edit
them individually.
b. Share album – shares everything you just
uploaded for the other contents of your specified
folder.
c. Edit Photos – uses Photobucket’s photo editing
tools to manipulate your image.

9. 6. Let us assume you will share a photo individually.
To do this, click on View Uploads then once the
page loads, click the photo you want to share.
7. On top of the image, you will see the following
share options:
a.) Share to social media sites – share your photo to
your social media and blogging platforms.
b.) View link codes – gives you link codes for HTML,
forums, emails, instant messaging and a direct link.

10. c.) Share to email – shares your image via email
d.) Download Image – allow you to download your
image
e.) Share with Caption – shares your image to social
media sites with the option to add a custom
message (caption)
8. You may choose to share your photo to your
friends on Facebook. If you are done sharing, you
may log off and close the browser.

11. HTML Overview
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and
it is the most widely used language to write Web
Pages.
Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages
(HTML documents) are linked together. Thus, the
link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.
As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language
which means you use HTML to simply "mark-up" a
text document with tags that tell a Web browser
how to structure it to display.

12. Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of
defining the structure of documents like headings,
paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the
sharing of scientific information between
researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web
pages with the help of different tags available in
HTML language.

14. Sample Output