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| When you have uploaded all your photos (homework) for the first lesson, your Gallery will look something like this. In my gallery, I have uploaded 8 photos, or graphic images in JPEG format. Janee will give you guidelines for the dimensions and filesize for your homework as a part of each assignment. In general, since my images are fairly busy, I have used the Save for Web feature of Photoshop to make them approximately 600 pixels (longest dimension) and smaller than around 50 KB. Smugmug will show each of your images in a thumbnail format with the first image in a larger format in your Gallery. If you want to see my Gallery in it's entirety, go to sunlaker.smugmug.com, and see how I have used my Smugmug Gallery to post my images and my artists statements. |
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| * The next thing you should do is add your Artists Statements that describe how you created each of your images for your homework. You will do that by clicking on the add caption link at the bottom of the view of your Gallery. |
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| * Once your dialogue box is open, write a description of what you did to create your image. For example, if you added Levels layer and then two filters to create your effect you would say something like, "I added a Levels layer and balanced the color tones in the picture. Then I added a crosshatch filter on the main image and created an external border using a rectangular selection tool and applying filtered noise to a new color for the border." That's an example. Pick your own statement so we can understand what you did. This is the caption I added to the first image of my Gallery. It tells more about the image and how I made it from homework I had created for Janee's Blank Canvas course. |
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| * Ok, if you mess things up and add the wrong image to the lesson posting, just click on the <photo tools> menu to see what you can do with your images. In my case, I had added an image twice, and I wanted to Delete the second image. So I highlighted the image and clicked on this option. It was that simple. |
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Posting homework to Smugmug is fairly straightforward.. You just have to recall where you have stored your homework on your computer, and Smugmug will help you take it from there. Remember, if you sign out and want to return to your smugmug site, just enter "myname.smugmug.com" into your web browser (where "myname" is the name you used to title your Smugmug web site), and it will take you there. Once there, you can Log In to change and/or upload any of your pictures. Have a great course.
JohnD
May 20, 2006
(By the way, I do not receive any payment from Smugmug. I have created this tutorial just to show how easy it is to start an account at Smugmug and upload your homework. The main goal is to make things easy for you, the student. Smugmug is a Registered Trademark.) |
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