Using PictureSky Online Gallery |
| Question: How do I register? |
Answer: Go to "Register" and fill out the required fields (and the optional ones if you want to).
After submitting your information you should recieve an email message at the address that you have submitted while registering, giving you instructions on how to activate your membership. Your membership must be activated in order for you to login.
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| Question: How do I login? |
Answer: Go to "Login", submit your username and password and check "Remember Me" so you will be logged in on the site if you should leave it.
IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted in order to use "Remember Me".
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| Question: Why can I not login? |
Answer: Did you register and click the link that was sent to you via email?. The link will activate your account. For other login problems contact the site administrator.
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| Question: What if I forgot my password? |
Answer: Use the "Forgot password" link. Other than that contact the site administrator for a new password.
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| Question: How do I start uploading my photos? |
Answer: First of all, you MUST create an album first. After you had login, you will be able to see a button named [Create/order my albums]. Click on it and start creating your first album.
After creating your first album, you can start to upload your photos. Click on the link [Upload picture].
At the Upload File page, you can either choose to upload single files or upload a zipped archive of all your photos.
To upload a zip archive, simply zipped up your intended photos together and upload the single zip file.
PictureSky will automatically upzip and decompressed your zipped file.
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| Question: I don't want everyone to see my photos, can I create private albums? |
Answer: After you had created your album, click on [Modify my albums], scroll down and under "Permissions for this album", you can set your privacy setting for that particular album.
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| Question: How can my friends or relatives see my private or public albums? |
| Answer: After logging in, go to [My Gallery], there you should see a link that says [Tell a friend about this album]. Clicking on it brings you to an email mailing form. Submitting this form will send emails to your friends or relatives with a link for them to see your albums. Applicable for both public and private albums.
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| Question: Can I upload multiple photos? |
Answer: PictureSky allows uploading of up to 5 photos at a time. You can also use WindowsXP in-built photo publishing wizard to batch upload photos(Recommended). To learn more about WinXP publishing wizard, click here
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| Question: How do I save a picture to "My Favorites"? |
Answer: Click on a picture and click on the "picture info" link ( ); scroll down to the picture information set and click "Add to fav".
The administrator may have the "picture information" on by default.
IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted.
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| Question: How do I rate a file? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and choose a rating.
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| Question: How do I post a comment for a picture? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and post a comment.
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| Question: What type and size of a file can I upload? |
Answer: The type can be of jpg, jpeg, png.
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| Question: What are cookies? |
Answer: Cookies are a plain text piece of data that is sent from a website and is put on to your computer.
Cookies usually allow a user to leave and return to the site without having to login again and other various chores.
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| Question: I am running out of free space! |
Answer: PictureSky offers various photo storage packages. To find out more, click here.
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Navigating the Site |
| Question: What's "Album List"? |
Answer: This will show you the entire category you are currently in, with a link to each album. If you are not in a category, it will show you the entire gallery with a link to each category. Thumbnails may be a link to the category.
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| Question: What's "Last Uploads"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last uploads to the site.
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| Question: What's "Last Comments"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last comments along with the files posted by users.
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| Question: What's "Most Viewed"? |
Answer: This feature shows the most viewed files by all users (whether logged in or not).
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| Question: What's "Top Rated"? |
Answer: This feature shows the top rated files rated by the users, showing the average rating (e.g: five users each gave a  : the file would have an average rating of ;Five users rated the file from 1 to 5 (1,2,3,4,5) would result in an average .)
The ratings go from  (best) to  (worst).
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| Question: What's "My Favorites"? |
Answer: This feature will let a user store a favorite file in the cookie that was sent to your computer.
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Album list