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For whom is this photo gallery? Everybody can upload images in this photo gallery for free and participate in the discussion about images. From the beginner up to the professional. No matter which brandname, both analogue and digital. But this photo gallery is not an online-photo-album, to throw all the photos of your last vacation into it. Since every photo is looked by thousands of people and get commented by some users, vacation snap-shots would be not appropriate. The purpose of this photo gallery is the discussion about images. The users here are almost exclusively photographers, who have photography as their hobby or are professionals. So if you are interested to talk with other photographers about images, you are at the right place! If you are only looking for a place on the internet, to store your photos, online albums like Yahoo etc. might be a better for you.
Registration for this Photo Gallery Attention: Currently there are 2 separated registrations for the Photo Gallery and the User Forum. As soon as there are more donators, we can merge the two databases. Please use therefore the same username and password in both sections! To register for the Photo Gallery, click on "Register" within the Photo Gallery. Only if you are registered, you can upload photos, post comments and use other features. Non-registered visitors can see photos, but can not upload photos. They will also not see all features of the Photo Gallery
What can I do at this Photo Gallery? Depending on your userlevel, you have different webspace for photo uploads available, can create personal photo albums, post and receive comments on photos. All registered users can comment photos and receive comments of other members on photos. Additional you can be notified of new uploads in specific categories of the gallery. For more information about the advantages of the photo gallery, click on "Subscribe/ donate" in the navigation bar and look at the overviw sheets and also at the next point.
Benefits of the photo gallery at Camera-info.com You won't need to have a webpage or join a photo service to show your images at Camera-info anymore. Depending on your userlevel, you get different diskspace for your own photos. For more information about the different userlevels and their services, click on "Subscribe/ donate" in the navigation bar and look at the overview sheets. Advantages:
Important: At the end of the day, you are supporting with your subscription also the Camera-info.com Forum. All costs of the Camera-info.com site can be reduced, if you support us. Advertising is not sufficient nowadays anymore to cover all costs.
How to subscribe and help maintain the site? The Camera-info.com forums are free of charge (except Contaxinfo.com). Nevertheless there are obviously costs involved to run this site, which have to be covered somehow. Advertising income alone is unfortunately not enough. You can help us to reduce the costs by participating at the Camera-info.com photo gallery. Depending on your desired userlevel, there will be a fee for this photo gallery. You can test this photo gallery with a free but limited test-account in the gallery. If you want to upgrade to a full membership (i.e. Bronze), just click on "subscribe" in the navigation bar. Or simply on this link.
You can only upload photos, if you are registered and logged into the Gallery. If you are logged in, click on "upload photos" in the navigation bar. Follow the instructions. Please pay attention to the maximum restrictions in pixel and file size in KB on the upload window.
The maximum allowed diskspace depends on your user level. Your maximum pixel size is displayed in the upload window. Same for the KB size. You can change to a higher userlevel by sending an e-mail to a moderator of this forum and susbcribing to the appropriate new level on the subscription page. We can not refund already payed memberships if you decide to chnege the userlevel.
How to rate and comment on photos? Only if you are logged in, you can rate and comment on photos. Click on the photo and enter your comments below it. If you want to receive e-mail alerts about new comments on this photo, check the box below the image for it.
This is only a basic step by step approach to get good results for scanning and uploading your photos. Please are aware, that if you want to get really high quality scans, you have to use your photo-software with some more techniques then described here. Scan you pictures/slides with a decent pixel-resolution and save them as photoshop psd file on your computer. Do not yet set any restrictions for pixelsize or size in KB. Open the scan afterwards in Photoshop set the maximum pixel size. Save that setting. If you want to get the best quality for that scan you can do so by using different techniques like unsharpening etc. Please are aware that you should do the unsharpening as the last step in image editing. After the image is looking like you want it to look, go within photoshop to the navigation bar "file" and in that drop-down menu click on "save for web...". Now a new window is opening with the titel "save for web". On the upper right hand border of that screen, there is a tiny little black triangle - directly below the button "finish". Click on that triangle. A drop-down menu appears. Click in that drop-down menu on "optimize file size". A small window pops up. Enter in the box within this small window the maximum allowed file size in KB - on this board it is 130KB. Click "o.k." Now you are back in the old screen and see the optimized image with 130KB. Now check in the upper right corner that the file-type is really jpeg format. This gives the best results for webpublishing.. Save now the image on your harddisk. Give your image an appropriate name, please no numbers. Remember the location of that image i.e. on the desktop. Go to the photo-gallery, login, click on the appropriate categorie and then on upload. Search your new image, give it a descriptive title and submit. That's all.
How to get a higher userlevel? You can upgrade to a higher userlevel at any time. With a higher userlevel, you have more disk space and more features. Just click on subscribe for the desired userlevel. We can not pay back the margin between the old and the new userlevel, since this would cost us more than you would get.
What is the difference between private and public albums? Private albums are not accessable for other users, except you would send them the access code for the specific album. A public album is accessable for everyone, unless you mark it later as private. You can switch back and forth as often as you want to.
Can I switch albums to private / non accessable for others? Yes, you can switch back and forth as often as you want to.
How to put a link from my forums profile to my gallery at Camera-info.com? Click on your member gallery in the photo gallery of Camera-info.com. Copy the url in your browser at the top of your screen. Go to the forum, login into your profile. Copy the long url into the appropriate box within your profile. Save the settings. You are done. Whenever someone in the forum is now looking at your profile, he can see your member gallery in the photogallery by clicking on that link. You can also use the long url on your own homepage to guide your friends to your Camera-info.com photo gallery.
How to get notification if new comments on my own photos or on other images have been made? 1. Comments on your own photos When you upload your photos, there is a small drop-down menu which is by default set on "yes" for receiving comments on your own images. Whenever a comment is made, you will get an e-mail to inform you about that comment. If you switch this on "no", you will not receive this e-mail alert. You can change that at any time later on as often as you want to. Simply go to your photo (while being logged into the gallery) and click below that image on "Receive Email Updates". From that moment on you receive an e-mail as soon as a new comment was made. If you want to turn that off again, go again to that image and click below the photo now on "Disable Email Updates". 2. Comments on photos of other users You can also get informed about comments on photos, which you find very interesting, but are not your own photos. In that case you are curious what others might think about that photo too. It is basically the same procedure as above. You can change that at any time later on as often as you want to. Simply go to your photo (while being logged into the gallery) and click below that image on "Receive Email Updates". From that moment on you receive an e-mail as soon as a new comment was made. If you want to turn that off again, go again to that image and click below the photo now on "Disable Email Updates".
How to get notification if new photos are uploaded? Yu have to be logged in. Click on the desired category. Look at the buttom on the left. There you will find the link "subscribe to this category". Click on it. From now on, you will get an e-mail notification, if a user has uploaded a new image to this category.
I can not post comments or upload images Please check whether you are logged in or registered at all with the photo gallery. The forum and the gallery are using 2 different registration systems. Only if you are logged into the gallery, you will see the "upload image link" in the navigation bar and can post comments to photos.
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