Uploading photos.....

[phil1982]

hi,

Forgive me now if this all sounds stupid but.....

I managed to get Exhibit Engine installed on my server, but how do I upload photos? I created a new exhibition and changed all the paths over to my the domain, ive also created them paths on the server, but I really dont get it lol, sorry i'm new with all this and it get confusing.

Could you explain simply to me what I have to do to get my photos up in the exhibition? am i to upload my photos to a new directory called thumb and microthumb?

p.s not sure if ive made any sense:S

[Pekka]

Hi,

Have you read the FAQ's "I can't understand anything about the path systems!????" and "What is a size path?"

Anyways, I'll try to simplify:

With EE you'll need at least three images made from same original:

- thumbnail (standard thumbnail)
- microthumbnail (very small thumbnail)
- big size photo

For each exhibition you define thumb and microthumb directory. Upload thumb and microthumb to those directories. Now, for "big" photos you have to get grip of "size path" system.

It is really simple: size path list is a list of paths where you have "view size" photos.

So, create a path (usually I have one path for one size in certain exhibition but you may develop your own logic system there) and upload the big photo there. See that EE has that path in path editor, and that the default path (the path visitors will see first when they enter EE) is named "default".

Now you should have e.g.

http://www.mysite.com/gallery/thumbs/photo1.jpg
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/microthumbs/photo1.jpg
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/normal/photo1.jpg

Note: filenames must be identical: you can't use one path for all sizes.

In exhibition editor you see which thumb paths it is using. After they are set, just keep uploading thumbs to those paths, for that exhibition.

In photo editor you can see for each photo all size paths it is using.

When you create a new photo to an exhibition, it will list photos from microthumb directory. You choose a photo, and EE gets the thumb and lists all available size paths in photo editor. Select the size paths where you have that photo.

You can automate selection of size paths by pre-entering them in defaults editor. After defaults are set, you can just add a new photo and it will have default sizes selected automatically.

Study the example exhibition, it will show a practical example. And read http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3870

PS. EE 1.3 will have extensive online help, and also lot of small useful features like an option to color code pathlist so that paths that actually contain filename of currently edited photo are colored in red.

[phil1982]

yup I think understand now, i'll try it and post after it but, now I have a problem with making the action for resizing, I use PS 7 , the problem is, when i open a new file and press play, it seems to just ignore the file I now want to use the recording on and use the file I used previously, in the recording:S

[phil1982]

thx btw, lol forgot about that , that was a bit cheeky, sorry:)

[phil1982]

ok i managed to sort it all now thx pekka, but the only problem is, it displays the thumbs and the microthumbs but no size pictures, dunno wot ive done wrong i'll go back try figure it

[Pekka]

phil1982 wrote:
ok i managed to sort it all now thx pekka, but the only problem is, it displays the thumbs and the microthumbs but no size pictures, dunno wot ive done wrong i'll go back try figure it

See that one of the selected size paths has variable name "default".

Use "path editor/path functionality analysis" to check how your paths work in real life.

[cdragut]

A note for first time users (like myself). I managed to install the gallery with no problems on a Unix server.
I had a hard time to make the program "see" my thumbs and photos. It took me almost a whole day to figure out the problem. I used a small and fast utility to resize my pics (I run OS X on a Mac G4 - too bad the upcoming upload app is not Mac compatible...) and all files were renamed "name.JPG". For some reason the EE wants them named "name.jpg".
Hope this avoids a lot of frustration for the future users.

[Pekka]

cdragut wrote:
A note for first time users (like myself). I managed to install the gallery with no problems on a Unix server.
I had a hard time to make the program "see" my thumbs and photos. It took me almost a whole day to figure out the problem. I used a small and fast utility to resize my pics (I run OS X on a Mac G4 - too bad the upcoming upload app is not Mac compatible...) and all files were renamed "name.JPG". For some reason the EE wants them named "name.jpg".
Hope this avoids a lot of frustration for the future users.

Sorry about that. I discovered the problem a couple of weeks ago but forgot to write about it here. :(
The next EE will accept jpg, JPG, jPg, Jpeg, JPEG etc.
And also gif and png.

[cdragut]

WOW !
Thanks for the fast feedback...and even more for your wonderful work...both as a programmer and a photographer...(I haven't heard you playing...yet...)