Tips for using the FlyKingMountain.com Photo Gallery

A. Register.

You won't be able to upload photos until you've registered. Give yourself an ID and password. We suggest you use your name, as in "adamsmith", instead of a handle like "kingpilot".

B: Create albums as needed.

1. Go into your album. From here you can create sub-albums and post photos. We suggest you organize your space by creating sub-albums. After all, you'll be posting photos from every year, right?
2. Create a sub album. We'll call our example "2007". After you create the album, you'll find yourself in the configuration window for that album. The default settings should be fine. Click on the "Back to album" link at the bottom of the left-hand task list.

C: Add photos to an album.

1. Go into the "2007" album. You should now see a number of options in the left-hand task list. Click on "Add Items" in that list. You'll find yourself in the "Add Items" window.
2. Along the top of the "Add Items" window, you'll see a number of tabs. Each tab is for a different way of adding items (photos, movies). We'll talk about a few of these.
   1. From Web Browser: This is the easiest. Just browse to a photo on your computer, Add a caption, then click the "Add Items" button at the bottom of the screen. You can add 2 items, then come back and do it again. There is a "More Upload Boxes" link under the last entry. Each time you click it, one more upload box appears, allowing you to add another photo. This may be an easy way to upload a photo, but it's not the best way to upload a bunch of photos all at once. More on this later.
   2. Link: Here you can supply a link to another place on the web. For example, you can link to a video that you've posted to YouTube.
   3. From Picasa 2: if you have Picasa on your computer, you can use it to upload photos.
   4. Windows XP: Vista too. Read the instructions, download and run the registry file (XP or Vista version), then publish photos directly from Windows. You may like this approach since it lets you upload many photos at once. This is what I use. See "Using Windows XP" or "Using Vista" below.
   5. Gallery Remote: Install this application on your computer, then use it to do your photo publishing. Gallery Remote has several features. See "Using Gallery Remote" below.
   6. Upload Applet: Sorry, we don't know much about this one. It looks like it invokes Gallery Remote.
   7. WebCam/Live Image: Here you can link to a webcam

D: Add captions to your photos.

1. Get yourself into the Album you want to work with. You'll be looking at small thumbnail versions of your photos. click on "Edit Captions" on the left-hand task list.
2. In the "Edit Captions" page, you'll see the thumbnails along the right of the screen. For each photo, there are four fields that you can fill in:
   1. Title: This shows under the photo, in bold, in the album view (thumbnails), and item view (full size). This field should have the file name of the photo already in it. You can change this, if you like.
   2. Summary: this shows in the album view.
   3. Keywords: optional, these help when searching for a photo.
   4. Description: this shows in the item view.
   
   You can enter the same caption in both Summary and Description. Then both the album view and the item view will have the same information. Or, you can replace the Title text (file name) with your caption and leave it at that. Another possibility is a short Summary and a longer Description. Whatever you like.
   
   You can enter captions for 9 photos, then on the bottom of the page click: "Save and Edit Next 9", or "Save and Done".

1. Under each photo in the album view (where you see all the thumbnail images), you'll see an "item actions" pulldown list. Click the down-arrow and select "Edit Photo". If you are looking at the photo full-sized, you can click on "Edit Photo" on the left-hand task list.
2. In the "Edit Photo" window, you'll see several tabs across the top of the window.
   1. General: here is where you enter a description for the photo:
   2. Photo: this page should be blank. No changes needed.
   3. Modify Photo: If your photo is not oriented correctly, you can rotate it here. You can also re-upload the photo from your computer.
   4. Crop Thumbnail: self explanitory
   5. Watermark: If you want to protect your photo from piracy, you can create a watermark, usually some text, that overlays the photo, making it viewable, but unusable by others. They'll have to come to you to get a clean version of the photo.
   
   Click the General tab, if you're not already there. You'll see the same text entry fields mentioned above. After you've filled in the the desired fields, click the Save button at the bottom of the page.

E: Explore other features of the Photo Gallery.

Along the left of the screen are the tasks available to you on each page. Try each of them to see what they give you.

F: Get help, if you need it.

To go directly to the help section "Gallery2: Usage", click on This Link.

Using Windows XP (Windows XP's web publishing wizard):

A: Download and install the registry update for publishing to FlyKingMountain

B: Make sure your Windows Explorer is configured for this:

• In Explorer, click Tools / Folder Options
• In the General tab, select "Show common tasks in folders"
• Click OK to exit Tools window.
• In Explorer, click View / Explorer Bar. Make sure the list of items to pick from has nothing selected (often "folders" is selected).
• In Explorer, click View / Show Thumbnails

Note: when you select a photo (click, Ctrl-click, Shift-click), the task list on the left will say "Publish this file to the Web" or "Publish the selected items to the Web".

C: Run the wizard to upload your photos:

• A window lets you select/de-select photos from the current folder on your computer. Any photos you selected before starting the Wizard are already selected here. When you're satisfied, click Next.
• Pick FlyKingMountain Photo Gallery as the destination. Click Next.
• You may be asked to log in to the Gallery if you logged out the last time you were there. If you are NOT asked to log in, the Wizard has used the ID/password of the last person who logged in and didn't log out.
• In the list of target albums, pick the one you want to add these photos to. If needed, you can create a new album at this point. Click Next.
• In the upload Options window, accept the defaults, Click Next.
• In the Adjust Size window, pick Medium (800x600). Click Next.
• The next window shows you the upload progress.
• When done, the wizard can open Gallery to show you the result. Click Finish.

Notes:

2. If someone else logged into the Gallery on your computer, and didn't log out before quiting Gallery, the web publishing wizard will log YOU in as THAT PERSON. The last log-in was saved as a cookie on your computer and that cookie is used by the wizard. If the Wizard doesn't ask you to log in to the Gallery, and you're not sure if you were the last person to log in to it, quit the Wizard and go log into the Gallery before running the Wizard. If you do upload photos as another person, the Gallery Administrator can change ownership to you.

3. In the web publishing wizard, when choosing the size to upload, if you choose the largest size (1024x768), you'll still end up with an 800x600 version of the photo in the Gallery. The Gallery default is to limit photos to a 800x800 box. If you really want a photo larger than 800x600, you can re-upload the photo from the "Edit Photo" window, after changing the size parameters for that photo.   If you choose the small size (640x480), that's what you'll get. By the way, these sizes assume that you are uploading photos in landscape orientation. If instead they are portrait, see 4 and 6 below.

4. Photos are not automatically rotated during upload. You'll have to manually rotate the photos afterward: Under the photo in the album page, you'll see a pull-down list of actions for a photo. Click that list and choose "Edit Photo".    In the Edit Photo screen, click the "Modify Photo" tab (at the top). Here you'll see the Rotate options. Note: see no. 6., below.

5. You'll also want to add captions, etc. while you're in the Edit Photo screen. See the section above: D: Add captions to your photos.

6. If you rotate a photo already in the Gallery, by default you end up with TWO copies of the photo. The original photo is unchanged. A copy is made and THAT is rotated. To save space on the Gallery, you should not save an original copy in the Gallery. Here's how to rotate an image:

1. Get into the Edit photo screen for a photo:
   • In Album view (where you see many thumbnail photos on one screen), click the arrow on the right of the "item actions" pulldown list, that is below each thumbnail, then choose the "Edit Photo" option.
   • In Photo view (where the single photo takes up the screen), click the "Edit Photo" option on the list of actions on the left of the screen. If that option is not available, then you don't have permission to edit the photo.
2. In the Edit Photo screen, click the Modify Photo tab at the top of the screen.
3. In the Modify Photo screen, uncheck the box labeled "Preseerve Original Photo" at the bottom of the screen.
4. In the "Rotate" section at the top of the screen, click the appropriate button to rotate the image.
5. Click the "Back to photo" option on the left-hand options list, to get back to the album.
6. Repeat this procedure for each photo you want to rotate. Be sure to uncheck "Preserve Original Photo" each time.

1. Get into the Edit photo screen for a photo:
   • In Album view (where you see many thumbnail photos on one screen), click the arrow on the right of the "item actions" pulldown list, that is below each thumbnail, then choose the "Edit Photo" option.
   • In Photo view (where the single photo takes up the screen), click the "Edit Photo" option on the list of actions on the left of the screen. If that option is not available, then you don't have permission to edit the photo.
2. In the Edit Photo screen, click the Modify Photo tab at the top of the screen.
3. In the "Scale" section of the screen, type in "800" in the first box. "800" will appear in the second box.
4. In the "Reupload Photo" section of the screen, click the "Browse" button to navigate to the photo on your computer, then click the "Reupload File" button to do the upload.
5. If the photo needs tobe rotated, see no. 6, above.

Using Windows Vista (Windows Vista's photo printing function):

A: Download and install the registry update for publishing to FlyKingMountain

B: Use Windows Photo Gallery to select and "print" your photos to the Gallery:

• Click Start menu / All Programs / Windows Photo Gallery.
  note: Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) looks like Windows Explorer, but it is a completely separate application. You may not see the folder with the photos you want to upload. If not, you'll need to add that folder to WPG.
• Add your photos to WPG:
  • At the top of the WPG window, click File and choose "Add Folder to Gallery".
  • Navigate to the folder on your hard drive containing the photos you want to add to WPG.
  • Click OK. The folder will be added to WPG.
• Print selected photos (upload to FlyKingMountain's photo gallery):
  • Select the photos you want:
    • Click the first photo you want to upload.
    • Hold down the Ctrl key while you click other photos to include.
    • To select a range of photos, hold down the Shift key while you click the last photo in the range.
    • When you're done, all the photos you want to upload are now high-lighted.
  • At the top of the WPG window, click Print and choose "Oder Prints from FlyKingMountain Photo Gallery...".
    If you don't see that option, then choose "Order Prints..." and pick the FlyKingMountain Photo Gallery from the list.
  • A window pops up, the Gallery is contacted, and a list of albums is presented to you.
    Select the album that will receive these photos:
    • If you created the album previously, scroll to it and click on it to select it.
    • If this is to be a new album, select the album above it (it's parent), then click the New Album button. Fill in the Name (short, no spaces), and Title (what others will see), then click Next.
      When done, the new folder will be high-lighted.
  • With the album selected, click Next.
  • In the next screen, leave "Create Thumbnails now" checked. You can uncheck "Strip File Extensions?" if you like.
    Click Next.
  • The selected photos will now be uploaded to Gallery.
  • When done, the wizard can open Gallery to show you the result. Click the link to open Gallery or click Finish.
• You can now go into the FlyKingMountain Photo Gallery to add captions to photos, rotate photos, or do other work.

Notes:

Using Gallery Remote (GR):

• Upload a large number of photos at one time to an album.
• Resize the photos as they are uploaded.
• Rotate the photos as they are uploaded.
• create sub-albums in the Gallery.

A: Download and install Gallery Remote

Note: on the Gallery website, they refer to versions 1 and 2 of Photo Gallery. We use version 2.

B: Configure Gallery Remote

1. General:
   1. Thumbnails: Uncheck "Show thumbnails" for now. Checking this tells GR to create a thumbnail of each photo you select for uploading. This can be helpful, but slows things down.
   2. Language: You can specify English, if you like.
2. Upload:
   1. Resize before upload: check.
   2. Force resize to: 800 (this matches the settings in FlyKingMountain's Photo Gallery)
   3. Read EXIF from JPEG files to auto-rotate images: checked
   4. Captions: You can set this as you see fit. I use "do not pre-set captions"
   5. Allow HTML markup in captions and extra fields: check
   6. Slideshow/Preview: no change
3. URLs: Click New, to add a URL
   1. Alias: You can put a short name here, like "FlyKing". If blank, the URL, below, will show on the URL list.
   2. Username: the name you gave when you registered on the photo gallery at FlyKingMountain.com
   3. password: the password that goes with the username, above.
   4. Gallery Type: Standalone
   5. Gallery URL: http://www.flykingmountain.com/gallery/main.php
   Click OK to save.
4. Proxy settings: You only have to use a proxy if you're going through a firewall, as might be the case at your workplace. From home, you shouldn't need to set a proxy.
5. Quick Config: we don't have this set up. Don't use.

C: Use Gallery Remote

1. Destination Gallery: Pick the FlyKingMountain URL
2. Click "Log In" button. You'll connect with the Photo Gallery at FlyKingMountain.com.
3. "Pictures and albums on selected gallery" section:
   1. Albums: open the branch and navigate to the album you want to add photos to.
      NOTE: I like to create the album from inside the Photo Gallery, then use Gallery Remote to add photos. If instead you want to try creating the album from here, click the "new album" button at the bottom of the Albums list.
      
      If you created an album inside Photo Gallery, but can't see it here in Gallery Remote, that means that you don't have access to that gallery. Your id/pw do not give you access. You'll have to go back and check the properties of your album in Photo Gallery.
4. "Override upload defaults" section: Check that the settings you made in Options are shown here:
   1. Resize before upload: checked
   2. Force resize to: 800, selected (radio button)
5. Click the "Add pictures" button at the bottom left of the window. If that button is not active, you don't have permission to add photos to that album. Check the album properties in Photo Gallery.
   1. in the "Add pictures and/or whole folders" window that pops up, navigate to where you've stored your photos on your computer.
   2. select the photos you want to upload.
      • I like to pre-select the photos, putting the ones I want to upload into a folder of their own. That way I can simply select all photos in this step.
      • You can use Shift-click to select a range of files, or Ctrl-click to select individual files. You can use Ctrl-A to select all files shown.
   3. Click "Add" to add the photos to the upload list in Gallery Remote's main window.
      If you selected "show thumbnails" in the options window, you will have to wait while the thumbnails for the photos you just selected are created.
6. When all the photos you want to upload are listed in the "Pictures in selected album" list, you can click "Upload pictures", at the bottom-right of the main window, to begin the upload.
7. After the upload is finished, go to the album in Photo Gallery to see if the result is as you wanted it.
8. If you want to add captions to your photos, in Photo Gallery you'll have to go into each one and add a caption.
   • If you put a caption in the "summary" field, it'll display with the thumbnail in the album listing.
   • If you put a description in the description field, it'll display after you click on the thumbnail to see the full-size photo.

Notes:

Problems:

1: I can't find an "Add Items" option in my photo album

2: When I go to Add an album, I don't know what to type into the fields

After you've created the album