#1 - How to Add Images to the Gallery

One feature that was requested when we set up the Club website a couple of months ago, was to have the ability for members to upload their own photographs into the Gallery.

This facility is available to use by everybody and I thought it would be worthwhile putting a little ‘How to’ together to show the steps needed to upload images of your finds into the relevant category of the website’s Gallery.

STEP 1

After selecting the GALLERY option from the top menu bar, you will enter the main Category Page of the Gallery. In order to upload images you need to click on the ‘User Panel’ link on the left hand side of the page.



STEP 2

You will then be presented with a page which has the option ‘Upload’ in the centre – Click on that.



STEP 3

This is the stage where you select the image(s) you want to upload to the gallery. There are three different ways to upload them but I recommend you only use the ‘Single Images’ option for now. Choose the appropriate category from the drop down box. Add a title and description and then click on the ‘Choose File’ option. Locate the file on your computer/phone/ipad or whatever.



STEP 4

The file name should now be visible on the upload page. Now simply click the blue ‘Upload’ button and your image will be uploaded to the appropriate category and a confirmation message will be displayed at the top of the screen. Further images can now be added if required or you can click on the ‘Back to Gallery’ link to have a look at the image you have just added.



That’s it – you should have successfully added a photo of your choice into a pre-selected category and given it a title and description. Have fun!

garyl wrote:
I'm sure Andy has got size limitations in place but it's better that you do the size reduction beforehand.

Yep. File size is limited to 2MB and dimensions of 800 pixels square in the forum. If an image is uploaded in excess of 800 pixels it will be downscaled accordingly. Gary is also right when he says it's better to reduce the image size before uploading if at all possible as we have a finite amount of storage space. Hosting your images elsewhere is also helpful to keep our storage requirements to a minimum.