Our community makes it easy to add photos to the gallery -- you can email them, send them from your phone, add them from Flickr or upload them from your computer. (You can click on the photos in this tutorial to make them "pop-up" and be larger.)
First, click on the photos tab.
Navigate to the All Photos area
Select the "+Add Photos" button
Here, a screen will open that will walk you through the options for uploading your pictures. These are all menu driven and you just follow along with the directions on the screen.
Once your pictures have uploaded, this screen will open and give you the option of limiting who can see your pictures, a place to add a description, and a place to add a keyword.
Here's a video. I forgot to include in the video that you have to be the album creator to add pictures to that album.
Depends on if you're the album creator. If you want to make an album, just click on the Photos tab, and at the top you'll see a small plus sign with "Create an Album". You follow the menu - it's easy.
If you are trying to add your photos to someone else's album -- like playing along in a sketch challenge, you just add the keyword that the challenge hostess provided and wait. Right now, the challenge hostess has to manually move your photo into their album. We're working on having this automated, but right now, it's manual.
Thank you for this set of instruction. I have noticed on the site that there are a number of distorted images. So before I try and set up some images, could you please let me know the ideas or maximum dimensions for the image. That is height and width in pixels. I assume you want the images at 72 pixel resolution and in jpg format.
Cheers
Allyson
The images that are distorted are ones that users cropped into a non-photo ratio. 72 or 300 dpi will work fine. JPG works fine, but png and tiff will also upload fine.
@Karen, yes, there is a list of tags for the photo gallery in our Welcome area. While our photo area appears to be chaos, you can search by these tags or by occasion -- you can also search for key words in a description to get a list of results.
Karen, you'll need to put tags that are several words into quotes. My Favorite Things should actually be MFT -- but if you wanted to write it out, it would be "My Favorite Things". "My Umbrella" would also be in quotes. Spring would be fine the way it is.
I thought, when I first joined, that it said somewhere that we were only allowed to upload 100 photos. Am I wrong or has this changed? I've been deleting photos in order to add new ones.