Vanoord
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Uploading photographs to AditNow is an excellent way to share them with others and it can also be a very useful way of asking the forum's knowledgeable members for their help in identifying something.

If you wish to upload a photograph, you should first find the mine or location you wish to upload to. One of the easy ways of doing this is to click on the 'Mine Names' tab at the top right of the page, type in the name and then click on Search.

In this example, Conglog is being searched for:

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This will return a list of mines containing the name you searched for - there may be more than one, for example Croesor and Croesor Bach will both be found by searching for Croesor

Once you have found the mine you require, click on View Mine and you will be taken to the page for the mine.

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When you reach the page for a mine, it will display the albums which are associated with the mine, along with a lot of useful information including the grid co-ordinates and a location map. Background information may be included, as well as contacts if you wish for a guide for that mine.

Every mine has a User Album and and Archive Album into which photographs may be uploaded by all users of AditNow. Some mines may have additional albums, but in general photographs should be uploaded to the User Album.

The Archive Album is generally used for historic photographs of locations, for example where the features pictured no longer exist.

To select the User Album, simply click on the text that says User Album under one of the photographs:

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In order to begin the upload process, just click on Upload a Photograph in the box at the top right of the page:

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You will now be at the Photograph Management page. Click on Browse and navigate your computer's directories and select the image you wish to upload.

Photographs can only be upload in JPEG (.jpg) format. Please ensure that all uploaded photographs are rotated the correct way.

If your photograph is very large it will be resized during the upload, but you may also like to consider resizing your photograph before uploading, for example to 1600x1200 or 1200x1600 pixels - this will make the upload quicker.

You should enter a Name for the photograph and you may also enter a description which will be useful to people viewing the photograph.

Select whether or not the photograph is above or below ground and then click on Upload to upload your photograph.

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Once the photograph has uploaded, you will see a confirmation screen which will allow you to choose between viewing the photograph, returning to the album or returning to to home page.

To check that the photograph uploaded correctly, click on Click here the view the photo:

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Once you are happy with the photograph, you can return to the album by clicking on the User Album link at the top left of the page.

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Once you are happy with uploading one photograph at a time, it's easy to upload several using the Batch Photo Upload link, which will allow you to upload up to 20 photographs in one go!


Copyright

Please note: the copyright of photographs uploaded to AditNow remains with the photographer.

By uploading photographs you confirm the photograph is either your own or that you have permission from the photographer to upload their photographs.

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Vanoord
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"JohnnearCfon" wrote:

Could you do a similar guide as to how you add a link to a message please as so many people have problems doing that.



It's on the list! You wouldn't believe how long the above took me...

The eagle-eyed will note that it shows a user by the name of 'Miner Joe' - having done all the screen grabs, I realised they showed all the admin tools, thus they all had to be re-done!

Guides needed - I anticipate - would be:

(i) How to upload a photograph
(ii) How to start a thread on the forum (including how to add a link!)
(iii) How to embed an image in a forum post
(iv) Possibly, How to create an event
(v) Possibly, How to add a mine

I've not burdened SimonRL with this idea yet, but I imagine these will ultimately become stand-alone pages to help people get used to the site.


As noted above, all comments are welcome! :flowers:
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Hello again darkness, my old friend...

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