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If you are new here, don’t worry: only the album title is required to get started. Everything else can stay on the suggested values until you are ready to fine-tune. This section walks through privacy, layout, and how photos appear to visitors. Enhanced layout uses roomier defaults (Large 2.0x grid thumbnails and a Large first view when you open a photo); Standard keeps Medium 1.5x-style grid thumbnails and a Medium first view. Details: Thumbnails and Sizes and default view.
Create album Create your album first, then upload photos and media into it. Creating your album is divided into three sections.
In the Describe step, you will enter the title, description, date(s), and credits:
Select guestbook or email a comment Choose a guestbook (public comments on the album), email-to-owner comments only, or neither. Guestbook shows the form and entries below it (with a link to more when there are many). Guests enter name, email, and comment. Select GuestBook for that mode. Email comment sends the message to your account email without exposing your address on the page; Album by in Describe should be filled in so the message is addressed clearly. Guests enter name, email, subject, and comment. Select Email for that mode. Allow photo comments Allow guests to add or edit photo descriptions: choose Yes if you want visitors to help with captions, or No if only you should edit them. No is the usual default. Thumbnail size for the grid (five choices) Thumbnails are the small previews in your album grid. There are five thumbnail sizes to choose from on create/edit album: Small 1x, Medium 1.5x, Large 2.0x, X-Large 3.0x, and XX-Large 4.0x. The smallest sizes (for example Small 1x, about 113×85) keep pages quick when you have many photos; larger sizes show more detail before someone opens the full image but download more data. Enhanced layout defaults to a larger grid thumbnail (Large 2.0x, about 225×168). Standard layout defaults toward the middle of the scale (Medium 1.5x). You can pick any of the five anytime on the form. Number of columns and number of photos per page The Columns and rows section on the create/edit album form pairs Columns per row with Photos per page. Auto for columns means the count best fits the visitor screen; Auto for photos per page uses an adaptive layout. Using Auto for both controls is recommended for most albums so the grid responds cleanly to different devices. You can still pick a fixed number (1 to 15 columns; photos per page values up to 100 or Show All for every item on one page). Show All can feel heavy on very large albums. The form suggests full-width layout for maximum thumbnails: in Global Settings under Layout & navigation, set Page width to Use full browser width. Centered page width keeps a narrower column. If you use fixed counts instead of Auto, the number of columns is how many thumbnails appear per row. Smaller thumbnail sizes (Small 1x, Medium 1.5x) usually look best with more columns (for example 6 or fewer for Small 1x); larger grid thumbnails (Large 2.0x and up) often fit better with fewer columns (for example 3 or fewer for Large 2.0x). With long descriptions under each thumb, fewer columns reduce awkward wraps. More thumbnails per page means longer loads. For slow connections, use fewer photos per page. Bigger thumbnail sizes use more data per image, so trim photos-per-page when you move up the five-size scale. When not using Auto, many members used about 30 images per page with Small 1x and about 15 with Large 2.0x as rough starting points. Selecting sizes to view photos in and default viewing size When your images are uploaded, ImageEvent builds your original plus generated sizes. For the album grid, you pick one of five thumbnail scales (Small 1x through XX-Large 4.0x); see Thumbnails above. For the enlarged viewer, guests can step through separate full-image sizes: Small 320×240, Medium 576×432, Large 800×600, X-Large 1024×768, and XX-Large 1280×960. Check which enlarged sizes you want to offer; visitors use zoom in and zoom out. By default, all enlarged sizes stay available. This is the size guests see the first time they open a photo large. For Standard layout, the usual starting choice is still Medium (576×432). For Enhanced layout, the form now starts with Large (800×600) so shared albums feel bolder out of the box. You can pick any size the form offers. Submitting album for review in public gallery You can submit an album to the public gallery by setting its privacy level to Gallery. Please allow at least an hour for it to show up in gallery listings. To remove an album from the public gallery, change its privacy level to something other than Gallery; our team is notified to take it out of rotation. Album Security ImageEvent provides various levels of security from public sharing to totally personal use (only available to the account owner). There are 4 levels of privacy to select from. You may add guest password protection to your albums Select "Shared" for your general use. This album will appear on your Home page and navigation to other albums. You may add a guest password for protection. Select "Hidden" to hide your album. This album does not appear on your Home page or navigation to other albums. To share the album, you have to use the direct URL to get the album. You may add a guest password for extra protection. Select "Personal" to have for only personal use. Only when you are logged in you can access the album. You may not share the album or send invitations. Select "Gallery" if you want everyone to view your photos. When you select gallery, it will not automatically appear in the public gallery. It will take up to 1 hour. You may not add a guest password to your album. You may also choose to guest password protect your Home page. You may do this by going to "Edit Home Page". If more than one album has a guest password, it may be a good idea to use the same exact guest password value. Guests will only have to enter the guest password once to go to one album-- when viewing other albums it is not needed to enter the same guest password value again. Recommendations: If you like to share the photographs to everyone use no guest password to Home page and make the albums type "Gallery". If you like to share the photographs to family and friends, make the albums "Shared". Add a optional guest password. If you like to have protection and all the albums can be shared to all who has one guest password, add a guest password to the Home page and have all the albums "Shared". After which various levels of protection can be obtained by combination of making Home page guest password protected and individual albums guest password protected. If you like to give access to an album to a selected group only use "Hidden" albums. If you would like to store some images that are not to be accessed by others (such as work in progress, similar images etc) use them in a "Personal" album. Adding guest password to URL If you have a guest password to your album, you can include that in the URL. Your guests will not be required to enter a guest password to get to your album.
It is also possible to include the guest password to your Home page the same way. |