Using Globat Gallery

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Globat Gallery

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'The Globat Gallery Component

Table of contents

1 Setting up Galleries 2 Uploading files and images with hyperlinks 3 Protecting your files 4 Configuring your Gallery 5 Managing and Editing Photos

Setting up Galleries

Description: The Globat Gallery component is a fully integrated image gallery and manager for your website. It allows the upload and manipulation of multiple images, including additional files types for organizing and displaying to selected groups or any viewer. Additionally, any approved visitor can be given permission to upload to the gallery.

Purpose: E-mailing large image files which most e-mail providers disallow or depending on other limited web based “shared” photo-albums can be frustrating for persons wishing to display multiple images or files. Most image to web applications are limited in file size and can be quite difficult to manage. The Globat Gallery is available for every Globat customer and with a Globat hosting account; you can use up to your full package quota of space for your images.

The gallery component is also organized so that you can create many different albums marking different occasions or subject matter.

What does it look like?

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Installing the Gallery

Before using Globat Gallery, you will need to log in to the GCC (https://login.globat.com/) and click the "Globat Gallery" link after clicking the Site Content Button. You can then click the install button to activate the Globat Gallery software on your account.

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Logging Into your Gallery

Type the URL of your gallery location in any browser. http://photos.yourdomainName.com

Use the login and password sent to you by Globat for your FTP/Globat Control Console.

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The Photo Center: Once you have logged into the photos section of your website, you will be presented with the “Photo Center” interface which displays all of the commands to upload, manipulate, name, organize your photos and galleries.

Figure 3 - Photo Center Interface

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Command Breakdown:

• Album list – If you have created different albums within your gallery, this action will display a rundown of the album names.
• Last uploads – Once files get uploaded to the gallery, a display interface will show the most recent uploads to any album.
• Last comments – If you have comments turned on, visitors can comment on the images you have available for them to view.
• Most viewed – This component will show the most popular images selected from your album thumbnail view.
• Top rated – If you have the rating system turned on, viewers can rate their favorite images.
• My Favorites – This is your personal favorite list of images in your gallery/albums.
• Search – Images can be searched by associated keywords you list when configuring your gallery.

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Figure 5 - Search Results for "Ducky"

Figure 6 - Add Album Command

Select “Add Album” to create a separate section of images within your gallery. Type the name of the album and press the “Create Album” button.

Once you have created a new album, press “Continue” and you will be taken to the newly created album and be able to start uploading files. You can get here again by selecting the “Add Photo” icon.

Figure 8 - Add Photo Command

Uploading files and images with hyperlinks

One of the most convenient features of the Globat Gallery is that you are able to upload up to 5 images at a time. You can also upload links to images anywhere on the web. If you know the URL to an image on a site that you’d like to include in your gallery, copy the shortcut from your browser and paste it in the URI/URL Uploads fields under the images upload.

If you are uploading images: select BROWSE to find the image on your local computer. A “Windows” file explorer or File Locater on Mac will guide you in locating a picture on your system. This is also true if you have an additional media capture device such as a Digital Camera connected to your computer. The Globat Gallery component will compress any image for thumbnail view.

Once the files and URLs have been uploaded to your server, a success screen will show the results.

In this example a picture of a rubber ducky and a link to an image on a web site were uploaded. After the continue button has been selected you are then directed to the gallery view again.

As you will notice, the last image uploaded to your new gallery is the first to be displayed. You will also have the options of creating Titles for your images and descriptions. The gallery component also permits some Rich Text Formatting to bold and italicize your textual descriptions. There is also the capability of adding links from your text as well as an e-mail address under the image in the gallery.

The last feature is allocation of keywords for the images you upload. This is for the “Search” feature of your gallery. The more keywords that you place in this section will help users to find specific images based on their subject matter.

Figure 13 - Sort Album Command

Sorting the albums that are in your gallery is a very simple task. Albums can be moved one by one in the arrangement of choice.

Figure 15 - Protect Photo Command (Update Album)

Protecting your files

One additional feature included with the Gallery component is the ability to update album information and designate certain permissions to visitors that want to upload files, post comments and rate the files.

Also, there is a setting to allow only certain groups to view specific galleries. Groups are maintained and managed in the Configuration section of the gallery.

Figure 18 - Configure Command

Configuring your Gallery

The Configure component of the gallery is available in Standard and Advanced Modes. The Advanced mode is designed for the web-savvy. Standard mode contains commands for changing general settings, Gallery “Theme” or interface appearance, list views, comment feedback and User Settings.

Figure 20 - Manage Photo Command

The “Manage Photo” screen is a visual reference and management interface for albums and images. Files can be edited, deleted or have their properties altered.

Managing and Editing Photos

Editing photos with the edit files selection displays all photos associated with an album. The default setting for the amount of photos to be displayed is 25 and settings can be changed to show up to 100 photos from any gallery.

One additional feature provides more control over the image including rotating the image, cropping the image and saving the image as a “thumbnail.” This is done with the “Coppermine Picture Editor. “ Double clicking on an image in the gallery mode will transfer you to editor mode.

Figure 23 – Rotate Image

Rotating the image has settings for 180 degrees and 90 degrees clockwise and counter-clockwise. With the “Enable Clipping, Apply to crop" selection checked, bounding box handles appear around the image and can be positioned to “frame out” undesired portions of the image while cropping a specific area of the image.

The editor also includes a preview mode to show the changes before they are saved and change the image master in the gallery.

Quality of the image can also be altered to reduce the size of the image on the server. The “JPEG Output Quality” dropdown box has settings as low as 10% of the original quality.

Please feel free to explore the other great options inside Globat Gallery.