Upload and manage member photo albums

Members can upload photos and display them in albums on their profile. In order for them to do this, you must first enable and configure photo albums.

Sharing photo albums

Photo albums are shared from the member's profile page. Members can configure their access the same way that they can any other field on their profile (see: "Access by others" on Member and contact - edit profile)

Album directory

Clicking the "Photo albums" link will display icons for all of the albums as well as their album total and what their maximum amount allowed is (if any).

Under this will be links to all albums - the name of the album plus the number of pictures in that album. A picture from each album can be designated as the "cover" and is used as an icon for that album.

Creating an album

If the member is viewing their own profile they will be able to create an album by clicking on Add album. Members must create an album before they can upload any pictures.

• Name (required) - This will be displayed under the cover for the album and should identify its contents.
• Description - This displays as a subheading in the album itself.

The admin can limit the number of albums that a member can create. Once that number has been reached the member will be unable to create any more albums unless they delete one of their existing ones. They can continue to add pictures to their albums even if they have reached their album limit.

Uploading and managing photos

In each album, the member will have the following actions available to them:

Upload photos - The member can upload up to five (5) photos at a time. They must be in either jpg, gif, png or tif format. As well, each album can have a maximum of fifty (50) photos
Edit details - They can edit or change the name and description of the album.
Delete album - Note This will also delete any photos that are in the album.

There are size limits for each individual photo as determined by your billing plan: Free - 5 MB Group - 10 MB Community - 25 MB Professional - 50 MB Enterprise - 100 MB For more information on file limits, see File Management.

Any picture that has a border around it is the cover for that photo album and will be displayed as an icon for that album on the member's profile.

Moving the mouse pointer over any picture gives the member the ability to either Set as cover (if it is not already) or Delete the photo.

Captioning photos

Clicking on any photo will open it in full size. Under the photo will be a link "Add caption" where you can enter a brief description that will be visible to people who look at. At the top of the page will be buttons to let you make the photo the cover for the album or to delete it.

Notes

Problem: images are not shown in File Management / Insert picture (you can only see file names) and are not displayed on your Wild Apricot website

This can happen if your images use CMYK color space instead of RGB one.

Normally web images are saved with RBG color space and images meant for printing are saved with CMYK color space. Some systems only support images with RGB color space, not CMYK. You can get more information on color spaces by clicking here.

• To determine an image's color space go to: http://regex.info/exif.cgi
• To convert an image from CMYK to the supported RGB color space you can use the free online tool found here: http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
  • Just open your image and save it as .jpg - this will automatically save it in RGB color space.