Uploading photos to Gallery

From UKRag Guides (wiki)

Given that pictures have always been a constant for this website here's a quick guide on how to do it without requiring an IT degree (we hope :))

Contents 1 Prepare your photos: 2 Get an album 3 Getting the pics online 3.1 Uploading using your web browser (easiest) 3.2 Uploading using WinXP - Publish this file to the web 3.3 Uploading Using Gallery Remote 4 All Done 5 Space limitations

Prepare your photos:

Try to keep the size of your picture down to around 1024x768 in size or approximately 100kb filesize. This keeps things like upload time down and reduces the strain on the website resources (which are limited) You'll need an image editor (eg: [Emco Photo resizer]) but most digital cameras come with something that will do the job.

Collect and if you want, rename the photo filenames, to give people a clue as to what it/they/etc.. are.

Select all the photos you want to upload then right click on one of the selected images. Choose "Send to..." > "Compressed (zipped) folder". This will put all the photos in a zip archive. Note: You may use Winzip or some other compression utility, which is fine. Basically you just want to get all your photos in a zip file ready for upload.

Get an album

If you've got a lot of photos or someone hasn't created your album yet then contact one of the Admins (Martin, Sean, Andy, etc...) and ask them to make you an album for your pics.

Getting the pics online

• Make sure you're registered on the site and logged on.
  • Hint: Top left should show something like: Log out [ Yourname ]

• Once you're all organised and have a target album, navigate to it in the gallery and choose the "Add Items" from the list of options on the left.

Uploading using your web browser (easiest)

• At the next screen, select the "From Web Browser" tab (if not already selected).

• Now using "Browse..." locate your zip file of photos before clicking on the "Upload now" button.

• Wait patiently for it all to upload..
  • Hint: Now is a good time to go make some tea.

Uploading using WinXP - Publish this file to the web

This is really only a good idea for anyone who is confident with computers and has Windows XP as the installed operating system.

To use this approach you just need to choose the tab "Windows XP" and follow the instructions shown on that page.

• Note: you will need to install some registry changes in the process.

Uploading Using Gallery Remote

This is a much more detailed version of the Java Applet and requires installation to your PC so you can use it without the web browser. With this you're on your own but it's pretty self explanatory.

All Done

That's more or less it... Obviously some variations to the whole thing are available but this is by far the easiest way to handle things.

Hope it helps...

)

Martin

Space limitations

Please note that server space is limited and it is important to reduce your images in size to avoid overfilling the space, especially as many new cameras now produce pictures of 3Mb+ in size.