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freequently asked questions
The upload is very easy and self explanatory but if you want you can use a how to upload items to your gallery tutorial. As a registered user you get 200 mb of storage. But if your gallery is active and get enough hits/votes you can request the admin to go up a level according to your needs. - Currently there are 4 levels FREE of charge. Contact us to upgrade your account for free.
- 200 mb for Registered users - 300 mb for Silver users - 500 mb for Gold users - 1000 mb for Platinum users
Yes. There is no limit. But you can modify your gallery settings the way you want and set your own image size limits. There are as you already have noticed unlimited ways to customize your gallery. No. No size limit. You can upload high resolution images. Click on "add album". To upload click on "add items" to add your photos or videos Just login with your user name and password and you will automatically go to your albums. No. For more info check the “edit permissions tab” under album actions . You can assign access to individuals or groups. You can even protect your albums with a password. Yes. Several themes have this functionality. Carbon, Ebony, Gecko. Just go to "edit album" and then click on theme. Insert the url that your logo image is located at the "URL or path to alternate logo image" field and thats it. For password protection of your albums you need to go to "edit album" and the then click on "general" tab. Scroll down and fill the password you desire. - Yes. You can do almost everything with the permissions feature of your gallery. Lets say you want to show your gallery only to a friend of yours but you don’t want to set a password. You also want another friend to be able to add photos to your albums, but you don’t want him to be able to delete them. At the end you want only registered users to add comments to my photos/albums.
- All this you can achieve with the gallery permissions system.
- If you want to apply permissions (allow/deny access) to a specific group just type the first letters of the group and the browser will fill up the rest for you.
Predefined Groups are:
Everybody - This includes everyone, even visitors of your site that are not logged in. All guests and logged in users have all permissions that are assigned to the 'Everybody' group.
Registered Users - All users but the guest user are automatically a member of this group. As soon as you are logged in, you have all permissions a registered user has plus the permissions that are assigned to the 'Everybody' group.
Site Administrators - Members of this group have full access to any album and to the Site Admin area. By default, only the predefined 'admin' user is a member of this group. - Remember that all permissions assigned to the Everybody group are automatically assigned to all registered users as well.
If you want to apply permissions to a specific user, let's say a friend of yours just type his user name and apply the desired permission rules. - Three examples for applying rules to a group or user :
- 1. Say you want to make your Gallery completely private such that all visitors have to login first before they can see any photo album of yours.
• Remove the [core] View All Versions from the 'Everybody' group and Add the [core] View All Versions to the 'Registered Users' group.
2. Say you want to allow all 'Registered Users' to create albums and to upload items (e.g. photos). (not recommended)
• Add the [core] Add sub-album and the [core] Add sub-item permissions to the 'Registered Users' group
3. Say you want to make your Gallery completely private and only Mike (a family member) can see your photo albums.
• Remove the [core] View All Versions from the 'Everybody' group and Add the [core] View All Versions to Mike. Set up a single album:: - Set up the theme for an album
- log in to Gallery
- Navigate to the album to which you want the Map theme applied
- Click the Edit Album link
- Click the Custom Fields tab
- Add 2 Photo fields called GPSLAT and GPSLON
- Save
- Enter the GPS info for the images in the album, Edit each image
- for each one, click on the Custom Field tab
- enter the appropriate lat and long values
- Click the Album tab
- Set the theme to Map
- Save
- Click the Theme tab
- You're now on a page very similar to the one you encountered in Basic Configuration except that the configuration here applies only to this album. This is probably the point at which you want to set the initial center (lat and long (format: lat,long)), zoom level (0..17, lower is more zoomed in (NOTE: for version 1.0.7 higher is more zoomed in)), and map type of the theme. Other configuration of what's displayed and where also occurs on this page.
- Save
Set up an album with sub-albums(s): - -Create an album.
- -Edit customfields
- -Add a common field named GPSLAT and one named GPSLON
- -Add items (photos) to this album
- -Edit their GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Add a sub-album
- -Edit it's GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Add items (photos) to the sub-album
- -Edit their GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Set the sub-album theme to the map theme
- -Set the theme of the sub-albums's parent to the map theme
- -Access the parent album
- -The map will show green markers representing the items (photos) in the parent album
- -The sub-album on this map will have a red marker representing the sub-album
- -Click the red marker and a new map will be displayed showing green markers representing the items (photos) in the sub-album
- NOTE: Both album and item marker colors are selectable in version 1.0.7
The Picasa upload is intended for uploading groups of photos. To export from Picasa you select the photos you want to upload and click on "Make a Webpage" (or you choose "Folder/Export as Webpage or even ctrl-w)" from the menu), from there you select the sizes, and the export folder location. In the next window you need to choose "XML Code", and off it goes. Then you navigate to the folder you just chose and create a zip file of the xml file and the images and thumbnails folders. In Global Photo Diary navigate to the folder you want to upload to and click on add item. Choose the Picasa upload and browse to the zip file you created and upload this. It will create a sub folder with the same name as the zip file. To show your photos in a google map is easy and fast. Just enter the coordinates when you add a new photo or edit an existing one.
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