Gallery Tour
Our community has a great gallery system for viewing the artwork on this site. There are so many features that I thought I'd take a few moments to tell you about some of them. You can then go try them for yourselves.
Gallery Homepage
1. Gallery Home - This little icon will always take you back to the main gallery page where you can choose a category.
2. User Panel - This is where you can create categories of your own and upload images to our gallery for the whole community to enjoy.
3. My Favorites - Review the images you have selected as your favorites. When you select this link you will be able to view those images you have selected. You will also be able to download your selected files after they are compressed into a *.zip file.
4. Category Link - Select either the thumbnail image or the text link to load that specific gallery category.
Other Information - There is also more good information on this page, including: category description, number of images, and the number of times the images have been viewed.
Category Page
5. Breadcrumbs - The path shown here is a quick way to navigate around.
6. Thumbnail & Album Info - A low-resolution image selected from the album, the total number of images in this particular gallery and the number of times the images have been viewed.
Album Page
7. Album Title - Usually the name of the artist and a short description.
8. Sort Options - There are a number of different ways you can sort the album to find what you're looking for.
9. Start Cooliris! - See Below.
10. Image Thumbnail & Title - Here's a small version of the image and the title.
11. Hits - The number of times this image has been viewed since the last time the counter was reset.
12. Download - Download the full-resolution image and store it on your computer.
13. Favorites - Group your favorites together so you can view or download them later.
Cooliris
Cooliris - This is a cool little plugin you can get for your web browser (Internet Explorer / Firefox). It is compatible with our gallery and allows you to browse in a rather unique way. Thumbnails are displayed in a full-screen display, on a sliding wall. It's hard to describe, so check it out for yourself.
Image Details - Top
14. Slideshow - Start the slideshow and watch all the images in that album get displayed one at a time.
15. Navigation (Previous/Next) - Manually browse through the images in an album. Additional information shows how many images are in the album.
16. Zoom Magnifier - Your mouse will become a magnifying glass when placed over an image. This allows you to see the details without loading a larger image.
Image Details - Middle
17. Icons - View the full-sized version of the image, download the image, or add the image to your favorites to view or download later.
18. Sliding Thumbnail Panel - This is a convenient way to find images that you may want to view. Position your mouse over the thumbnails to slide forward and backwards.
19. Title - Name of this image.
20. Kaleidoscope - Fun little extra way to enjoy the images!
Image Details - Bottom
21. Automatic Kaleidoscope - I almost forgot to tell you about the auto-play feature on the kaleidoscope.
22. Image Description - Total views, rating, normal size, and large image size.
23. Exif Data - This is extra information stored in the file. Soon we will include author and license information.
24. Picture Rating - Vote on this image!
25. Comments - Give your opinion about this image.
26. Additional Information - A little extra information about this gallery.
27. Search - Use this form to find images by their name or description.
Full-Sized Image
28. Navigation - Use your mouse to slide into the previous or next images.
29. Image Info - Name of the file and the ordering number. Also button to close ajax window.
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