Building Your Photo Gallery

Post your best work for grades and admiration

	Create Your Account
	On the Photo Gallery Home Page, click on the Create an account link below the login fields and username/password recovery links, and enter the necessary information. You must submit a valid email address to use this system. Once you register, you will receive a message at that email address allowing you to confirm your registration. Log in to your email, open the message and click on the link, then use the login fields on the left side of the page to enter the site. Besides allowing you to confirm your registration, your email address will also be useful for notifying me that you have uploaded pictures, as well as retrieving a forgotten password. Do not check off the "Remember Me" box unless you are on your own computer, not a school computer.
	Prepare Your Files
	Once your account has been created and you've logged in, it's time to prepare your files for upload. Keywords are an organizational tool many photographers use to keep track of their digital work. You will use keywords to put your name on your photos. To insert keywords, your files must be moved to the computer. Review your photos on your memory card, then select the ones for upload by clicking on each while holding down the Command key (control key in Windows) and then dragging them to the desktop. (If you are working in Windows, skip now to the step below). While they are still highlighted on the desktop, open them in the Preview application) by double-clicking or typing Command-O. Go to the menu and choose Tools>Inspector or type Command-I. Click on the magnifying glass icon on the right, then the plus-sign + in the lower left, type your name, hit Enter, and repeat by clicking on each photo in the right sidebar until you're done.
	Keywords in Windows
	Launch Windows Explorer and navigate to the Desktop. Right-click on any one of your photo files, and choose Properties. In the dialog box, click the Summary tab. In the keyword field, type your name. If you want to organize your photos for future reference on your computer, you can add additional keywords, separating each with a comma, as long as your name remains first on the list. You can also fill in the other fields such as Title and Author, too, if you like. Keywords can also be entered using Photoshop by going to File>File Info.
	Upload Some Photos
	Once your account has been created and you've logged in, it's time to upload a photo. Click on the Upload a file icon and Browse for the file to want to put in your private folder. There is a 20 megabyte (MB) limit to each file, which won't be a problem unless you own a very expensive high-resolution camera. Select only your best pictures to upload, however, because you only have 50 megabytes of space in your folder, enough to hold about 12-20 photos from an average digital camera. When we begin assembling your photos for a web page presentation, we will edit them down to a much smaller size. After navigating to the location you copied your files, select the photo you want to upload, click on the Submit icon near the bottom of the page, and your photo will appear in a list of all the photos currently in your folder.
	Resizing Photos
	As you originally uploaded them, your pictures are way too big to fit on a web page. We will use Photoshop to reduce them so they will not overwhelm your page design. Upload your photos first, then click on each one in the list to open it in a new browser window. Then save the photo to your computer desktop using File>Save As... in the browser menu. Drag the desktop file to the Photoshop icon in the dock (in Windows, right-click and Open With Photoshop), then go to File>Save for Web & Devices. On the right side, in the Settings window, click the first menu on the left to save as JPEG format if it is not already selected, and choose JPEG High on the menu above for the highest image quality. Go to the Image Size tab on the lower right side. In the New Size area, set the width of your image to 600 pixels and click the Apply button. If your image is less than 600 pixels wide, you will skip this step, as your image is already the right size to fit on your web page. Click Save, changing the file name so it won't replace the original. Finally, upload the file to your Private Space.
	Create Your Page
	Note: For best results, edit your page in Firefox. By the due date for each assignment, you will turn your photos into a web page article. For security reasons, you may only upload photos from any computer on your own time. During class, however, you will be given authoring privileges to create and compose your page. Log in, then click the link "Submit an Article" on the left side of the page. A page editor that looks somewhat like a word processor will appear. In the upper left, title your page with your name. Below the workspace, pick the Section that matches the period in which you are taking Photojournalism. Below that, choose the Category that corresponds to the assignment you are turning in. Next, click inside the workspace and select Heading 1 from the Format menu and type your name and the name of the assignment you are turning in. Hit the Enter key. In the toolbar, find and click on the Inserts a new table button, create a table with one column, four rows and a width of 610.
	Insert Your Photos
	Now you will insert the photos into your web page. In the editor, click inside the first row of your table, then click on the "Image" button in the lower left corner. Select the "photogallery" folder, then navigate to the folder with your user name (do not take photos from other students' folders!). Select the photo you want, then add an image description of two or three words, and an image title if you want a tool tip to appear on your photo when a mouse hovers above it on your page (check the caption box). Repeat this step for the third row of your table. In the second and fourth rows, type a description of your photos, such as when and where they were taken, who is in them, and include a summary of the rules you researched for taking these kinds of photos.
	Finishing Your Work
	After you're done with your writing, add a new line to the bottom cell, then click on the Link button in the top toolbar. In a new browser tab, open the page you used in your research in the web browser, copy the text of its address (http:// etc.), and paste it in the Link URL field. In the title field, type the title text of each article you used in your research, and click Insert. Once you have finished putting everything in place, proofread your work. There is no spell check in the editor, so if you need one, copy and paste your text into the TextEdit application, then go to Edit>Spelling and Grammar>Show Spelling and Grammar. After correcting mistakes, copy and paste back into the editor. Finally, when you are totally sure you have done everything right, click the Save button. Your story will appear in your period's list of links after I read and grade it.