Galleries - Viewing other people’s pictures
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Finding a member's pictures
From the home page, and the main page of each gallery, you can enter a keyword or member name to search for. The system will return all the pictures which contain the particular keyword, or which belong to the particular member.
Sorting member galleries and images
Depending on your current location in the galleries , you can sort the displayed data according to various criteria.
In the member galleries overview list, you can sort the members being listed according Alphabetical Order, Date (newest first), Views (high to low) and Most Active
When viewing a gallery of a member, you can sort the displayed images using the three drop-down lists at the bottom of the screen. The options are: Filename · Filesize · Rating · Last comment · Posted date · Views. The second list allows you to select the time frame to sort within, and the last box allows you to select ascending or descending order. Set these as you like, then click the {Go} button.
Viewing options
Just below each picture there are a group of links:
Add to Favorites · Post a Comment · Report Photo · Receive Email Updates · Print View · Show EXIF Info
Use these links when you are browsing other members images.
Add to favourites
Click the {Add to Favourites} link, and the picture will be added to your own list of favourite pictures. You can easily remove a picture from your favourites list if you decide you don’t like it any more.
Downloading your favourites: You can easily download the images shown in your favourite folder by clicking on the “Download” button in your favourites display. A file called “nikonians-images.zip” will then be available for download for you. The file contains all the images from your favourites.
Depending on your online connection, the file download may take a substantial amount of time.
Remember that all images are copyright by their respective owner and you must not use the images commercially in any way whatsoever.
Post a comment
The Nikonians Gallery allows members to make comments about photos and give them ratings between 1 to 10. There is no such thing as a “photographers ranking” and the ratings of a photographer’s pictures are not added up in any way. The ratings are only for the purpose of giving some form of feedback to photographers.
You can only rate an image if you also post a comment on your rating. Use this facility to help other photographers improve their work.
- To submit a comment, fill in the Comments box with your text. You can optionally "rate" the photo and then select {Submit}.
- You must leave a comment to vote on an image.
- You can use UBBCode (formatted text) and Smilies code in your comments – click on the links to see the legends in a separate window.
Report Photo
If you feel a photo may be in breach of our terms of use, you may report it to the administrator.
- Select the type of violation from the drop-down list, and add your comments to the text box.
- Click {Report Photo}.
The reporting system must be used responsibly for it to work. Please don’t abuse this facility. Clearly state why you think the image is violating our terms of use.
Receive Email Updates
If you want to be notified each time somebody posts a comment for a particular picture, click on the {Receive Email Updates} link.
Print view
Clicking this link will open a copy of the image at the highest available resolution in its own window.
Show Exif data
This link will display the shooting data, if it is encoded within the image file. Typical Exif data includes the make and model of camera, shutter speed, aperture, lens used, focal length and more. This data is valuable in allowing you to see what types of settings the photographer has used to obtain the shot.
Other facilities
Keywords
When you upload or edit your pictures, you have the option to include keywords with them. If you don’t include a keyword, the system will try to create one or more from the title of the picture.
From the home page, and the main page of each gallery, you can enter a keyword or member name to search for. The system will return all the pictures which contain the particular keyword, or which belong to the particular member.
You can also click on the keywords in the information below any photo to perform a keyword search.
Viewing the latest additions
You can view the latest additions in the galleries by clicking on either of the links: “Recent Posts: last day last 7 days last 14 days all images “ located at the top of the main page.