Using the Photo Gallery
To open your gallery, type the web address you chose when creating the gallery. In this example: gallery.yourdomain.com
Index
The Photo Gallery Interface
The interface shows the settings that you have set for your gallery. The Gallery Name is shown in the top of the browser windows. If you have entered text in the About me and About the gallery field, a link will be shown in the top.
Note: If your gallery doesn’t contain any albums, you will see a login form.
Logging In
In order to create and administrate albums for your gallery, you will need to login. The login is the user´s e-mail address and password as set when the user was created or when the user was added during the creation of the gallery. In order to create albums the permission Create album and upload photos must be given.
Creating an Album
In order to create a new album for your gallery, click User Functions at the top of your gallery. A menu will appear below. Then click Upload New Album.
First, write the Album name. This is the name that will be shown in the list of your galleries.
Secondly, write a Description for your album. The Description will be shown in the left menu to visitors entering the album.
Choose whether you would like the album to be Public or Private. A Public album is accessible for everyone, without any login needed. A Private album is only accessible for users who are logged in.
Uploading Photos
The way of uploading photos to the gallery differs from browser to browser. But the Photo Gallery enables all browsers to upload multiple high resolution photos at once, which means no waiting time between each upload.
Upload in Internet Explorer
In order to start the upload process, click the button Upload Photos.
A new dialogue window will appear, giving you the possibility to browse your computer for the photos you want to upload to your album.
When you have found the folder containing the photos, you are able to tick each photo or click Select All in order to select every photo for upload.
Afterwards, choose in which quality you want the photos to be uploaded. You can choose between:
High Quality for Web
Normal Quality for Print
High Quality for Print
Original Size
The photo will automatically be compressed to fit the screen, without loss of resolution, when shown to the visitor.
Click the Upload button in order to start uploading the selected photos.
When the upload process is completed, you will see the message All X photos successfully uploaded (X being the number of photos uploaded).
Click OK and the upload windows will close and you will see all your photos in a list.
Upload in Other Browsers
In order to start the upload process, click the button Upload Photos.
A new dialogue window will appear, giving you the possibility to browse your computer for the photos you want to upload to your album.
You are able to choose multiple files, by holding down CTRL or SHIFT while clicking on the photos you want to upload.
When you have chosen the photos, click the Open button. The chosen photos will be listed with their file names. If you would like to remove one or more files from the upload process, simply click on the file name and the photo will disappear from the list.
By clicking Upload your photos will be uploaded to the album and will be shown in a list afterwards.
Organizing Photos
When a photo is uploaded you can Rotate it, write a Caption (a little note shown below the photo) and you can set the photo as a Cover Photo for the album. When you are done editing or writing a caption, remember to press Update to save your changes.
If you want to change the arrangement of the photos, simply click the photo and drag it to another position between two other photos. A dark colour will appear between the photos to indicate the new position of the photo.
In order to save your new album click the Save button. Or click Cancel to discard all changes and delete the album.
Viewing an Album
In the left side of the screen all albums in the gallery are listed. Private albums are only visible when logged in to the gallery.
Each album is presented with it´s Album Name, creation date and the number of photos in it. This example shows an album called My Album, created the 20/05/08; it is Public accessible and contains 5 photos.
If you click on either the Album Name or the Cover Photo you will be taken to the content of the album.
The left side of the screen changes appearance to show thumbnails of the photos. If you have written a Description for your album, it will be visible below the thumbnails. In case of more than 18 photos, there will be links to multiple pages.
When you click on a thumbnail, the photo will appear in the right part of the screen, displaying the photo in the largest size available without compromising quality.
Above the large sized photo there is a button bar.
This gives you the possibility to:
Download photo – Download the specific photo to your hard drive
View information for the photo – View information for the photo (e.g. date and size of photo etc.)
Start a slideshow – Start a slideshow with all the photos in the album
Go to next photo – Go to the next photo in the album
Go to previous photo – Go to the previous photo in the album
Adding a Comment to a Photo
In order to add a comment to a photo, you will need to have the permission to do so. When logged in as your user, open the album in which you would like to comment a photo. When you have opened the photo, click the Comments(0) in the lower left side of the screen.
Below the photo a form appears, in which you can write your comment. Click Submit when finished writing your message.
Your comment will appear to the right of the form.
If you want to remove a comment, click the trash can icon to the right of the date.
Inviting Friends
If you would like to invite friends or family to add photos to your album or view private albums, you can invite them by clicking the Invite Friends link from the User Functions menu.
A pop-up window will appear and you will see a form you’ll need to fill out. Enter the E-mail, Name and a Personal message for the recipients.
Remember to tick the permissions the invited people should have in your gallery.
When done, click Preview to see how your invitation looks before sending it, or click Send to send the invitation immediately.
Editing Your Profile
Notice, that all profile changes will affect your user in both blog and gallery.
In order to edit your own profile, click the Edit Profile link from the User Functions menu.
A pop-up window will appear and you will see a form where you can edit your personal information.
In order to perform any changes, you’ll need to fill out the Current Password field correctly or else the changes will be discarded. Click Save in order to update your profile.
