Category Add/Del:
This function allows you add an exhibit in a new category by checking the desired box. You can also add or edit the description of each exhibit. This appears at the top of the selected category's gallery page. Edit the text in the description box and submit the changes. Feel free to add a reference link to your own site if you wish, but this will be inactive (i.e. a user will have to copy it over into his or her browser address box). If you wish to withdraw a whole exhibit category, uncheck its box. Warning: un-checking a category box will delete all the pictures in this category.
Change User Category:
This allows users with multiple gallery pages to select which page to operate on with the functions described below.
Upload Image:
For each formatted image you wish to upload to your selected gallery page, enter a title and description in the boxes provided. Keep the description short (it should be just a line or two when the image comes up). If you don't want any description enter a space and then a return in the description box.
Use the browse button on the uploader to find the picture file on your computer that you wish to upload (and which is associated with the title and description that you have entered). This file should be a jpeg ( ***.jpg) image file, compressed to around 200K (full size stereo pair) or 100K (anaglyph). The image size should be around 2048 wide for a pair, 1024 wide for an anaglyph.
- All images less than 1200 wide are considered to be anaglyphs!!
Once you have located the proper image on your machine, double click on it or click Open. Its file name should then appear in the "File: entry space" in the Upload-Image control box.
Parallel pairs SHOULD BE BORDERLESS, with the separation vertical right in the middle. Anaglyphs should also be borderless.
EXAMPLE:
Picture size limits
1) Images LARGER THAN 300KB will NOT be accepted by the website.
2) Image pixel dimension must BE IN THE RANGE: 600 - 2500 wide, 300 - 1024 tall.
- Automatic anaglyphs
If you are uploading a stereo pair, and you want computer generated anaglyphs to be available (derived from your pair by our 3D formatting program), click on the Allow Anaglyph Box. If this box is not clicked, anaglyphs will not appear in the 3D format option list for this image. This box has no effect on Anaglyph uploads.
- Uploading
After completing the entries in the upload panel, click UPLOAD. The server will tell you after the image has been accepted. Thumbnails are automatically generated and your gallery page is expanded to include the new image. The Exhibitor List is also updated to show the most recent date you added an image to your gallery.
The RESET button is used to clear all the info in the upload boxes.
Browse Pictures:
This selection provides you with a list of pictures held in the data base under your User Name for the selected category. All of these pictures will appear in the thumbnail list on the gallery page that carries your NAME that you provided the curator (contact the curator to change it).
There are edit/delete/view functions for each image line. The ordering of the thumbnails on your gallery page (numbered as you would read a book - left to right then down) is shown, along with the image title.
Edit: Clicking this button allows you to change the attributes of the image (title, anaglyph permission, description). After making changes click Submit. Reset takes you back to the original settings.
Delete: Use this button to remove the image from the database. This also takes out the thumbnail from your gallery page.
View: Clicking this button will present the 3D formatted version of this picture. Use the Back Button (or Backspace key with Internet Explorer) to return to the Browse-Images menu.
Order: You can use these boxes to specify the order your images appear on the gallery thumbnail page. Each image must have a unique number, starting with 1. Order-Setting is useful, for example, if you have a sequence that you may want a visitor to view, one after another, using the NEXT button in the 3D formatter control box. After you have re-arranged the order, click Update. To return to the original Order, click Reset.
General Info:
You can bounce back and forth between the User Function menu and the actual exhibits to see the effects of your changes or uploads. As soon as you upload something it becomes available to the general public, so if you need to change an error in a title, for example, do it immediately. Use the back button to return to the User Function menu, or, if all else fails re-enter via the EXHIBITS navbar, which should include all the Exhibitor Function options.
Please Logout when you are done. Inactive sessions are terminated after 10 minutes.
