So you think you might want to have a gallery. A Gallery is a great place to keep player portraits, maps, pictures of NPC and other things that you, the GM, will want to refer to from time to time.
First you have to let our crack Admin team know that you want a gallery for your forum. It is easiest to ask for it when you create your forum. There is a section for that in the template. If you need to add one later, the best place to ask is in the thread where you asked for your game. But you can post a new thread asking for one if you would rather.
Once your new gallery is created, you will obviously want to add pictures. Go to the gallery, click on 'New Image' near the top a bit to the left of center. Enter any 'subject line' and 'description' in the text boxes then click on 'image manager'.
Enter a 'caption' for your pic (you =can= enter that later if you want). Avoid using special characters in File Caption, when adding images in the Image Manager, such as accented letters, á, É, etc. They seem to cause problems for the system <shrug>
Next go down and click the 'browse' button. That will open a 'browse window' showing the files on your PC.
Locate the file on your system that you want to upload. Click on that file and then click 'Open'. That will take you back to the image manager. Now you can 'edit' or 'add' caption info before you click the 'add' button.
You can repeat that process to add several images. That will work well if the images are related ... say, alternate poses for an NPC.
NOTE:
1.) Don't forget to click the 'add' button (the last item above). Your file won't be added otherwise.
2.) Images cannot be larger than 1 meg in size.
3.) Watch out for 'non-standard' characters in your image's caption.
OK ... once you click 'Done adding images', you will be taken back to the post and you should see, just to the right of the 'image manager' link, a list of how many images you have added. If it shows 0 or the wrong number of files, you forgot to click 'add' for one or more <g>
If you are happy with the subject and the description, click submit, just like a post.
Done!!
Hope that helps.
Last edited by MikeD; Sun 13/09/15 19:20 UTC.
