Friday, 6 March, 2009
Effective Usage: Creating Online Image Galleries in 3 Steps
Many people have asked us how to create an online image gallery in Wuala. With this post, we'd like to respond to your questions and give you an overview of one of the most commonly used features of Wuala.
Creating an image gallery involves only 3 steps:
Adding images to Wuala
In order to create an image gallery, you need to create a folder (right click anywhere in the "My Files" section and choose "New Folder..."), and then add images to it. Adding images is easy: Either click on "Add local files" or simply drag your files from outside Wuala into the folder.
Decide if you want to resize your images
Whenever you add images to Wuala, you'll automatically be asked if you want to resize them. This can be useful when sending images from a slow connection when you're on holiday or from a mobile connection. For most people, a 1024x768 copy will be enough, because they can still be printed as 9x13cm photos without quality issues. We recommend resizing to 800x600 if you only want to show your pictures on the web and leaving at least 1024x768 if they should also serve as a backup copy.
You can decide to resize all pictures (batch resize) at once or no picture at all by ticking the "remember the decision and never ask again" option and clicking the corresponding button. Of course the decision will only be remembered for the pictures you're inserting in this very moment and you'll be asked again upon the next insertion.
Enabling a public or secret web link to your gallery
You can share the gallery folder through a secret link. To achieve this, you have to right click on the folder, then choose "Share..." and finally click "Set..." next to "Weblink:". Then you either use the predefined key phrase or manually enter a new one. You have to click "ok", then "save" which will make the folder turn red and everything is ready to go.
In order to make the folder public, you can simply choose "public" instead of "shared" and you're set. No password needs to be entered for public folders but they will be accessible for all Wuala users and search engines, while shared folders will only be visible to those whom you provide with the link.
An example of a gallery
This is how browsing your gallery will look like (check it here):
Tipps & Tricks
Some additional tips:
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Creating an image gallery involves only 3 steps:
- Adding images to Wuala
- Deciding if you want to resize them
- Enabling a public or secret web link to your folder
Adding images to Wuala
In order to create an image gallery, you need to create a folder (right click anywhere in the "My Files" section and choose "New Folder..."), and then add images to it. Adding images is easy: Either click on "Add local files" or simply drag your files from outside Wuala into the folder.
Decide if you want to resize your images
Whenever you add images to Wuala, you'll automatically be asked if you want to resize them. This can be useful when sending images from a slow connection when you're on holiday or from a mobile connection. For most people, a 1024x768 copy will be enough, because they can still be printed as 9x13cm photos without quality issues. We recommend resizing to 800x600 if you only want to show your pictures on the web and leaving at least 1024x768 if they should also serve as a backup copy.
You can decide to resize all pictures (batch resize) at once or no picture at all by ticking the "remember the decision and never ask again" option and clicking the corresponding button. Of course the decision will only be remembered for the pictures you're inserting in this very moment and you'll be asked again upon the next insertion.Enabling a public or secret web link to your gallery
You can share the gallery folder through a secret link. To achieve this, you have to right click on the folder, then choose "Share..." and finally click "Set..." next to "Weblink:". Then you either use the predefined key phrase or manually enter a new one. You have to click "ok", then "save" which will make the folder turn red and everything is ready to go.
In order to make the folder public, you can simply choose "public" instead of "shared" and you're set. No password needs to be entered for public folders but they will be accessible for all Wuala users and search engines, while shared folders will only be visible to those whom you provide with the link.
An example of a gallery
This is how browsing your gallery will look like (check it here):
Tipps & Tricks
Some additional tips:
- You can always reset your folders to private, which will remove all third party access inside Wuala and from the web
- You can always add, modify, replace or remove files from Wuala folders. All changes will immediately be reflected in your online gallery
- If you add descriptions (captions) to your images in Wuala, they will also be shown in your web gallery
- The number of views in your online gallery will also be included in the number of views you see for every file in Wuala, giving you a good overview of your gallery's popularity
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Thanks for this hint.
But Wuala does not ask me to resize the image I'm adding. It is uploaded in full resolution.
I think it only works for pictures with high resolutions (I'm not sure how high).
Anyway, go to Tools->Options->Advanced and confirm that you have the option "Show Resize Image dialog" enabled.
Hello,
Image gallery works very well for JPEG but not for RAW files.
I use DNG, these files have an JPEG inside; a "big thumbnail" of 1024px (maybe create by lightroom, don't know)
JPEG is good for export and friends but DNG is definitively the best for archive!
I can upload my DNG on wuala of course but I have currently no thumbnail.
Is to possible to
Options > Advanced:
"Show "Resize Image' dialog when uploading images (first option ;))
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