Preparing Photos for your Galleries

Remember, most of your website visitors will be using standard laptops with 15" or 17" monitors.

This is very important, especially when you may be using a much larger monitor, and all websites to you will appear small in comparison to most of your visitors and customers.

The maximum height of a photo that can comfortably be viewed on a 17" monitor, without having to scroll, is 700 pixels. This is reduced to 600 pixels for people using a 15" monitor.

This means that to allow ALL your visitors to view your photos in full without having to scroll, you should resize them to a max 600 pixels in height. The width is less important, but should not exceed 900 pixels, or the max width of your website page area.

The resolution of photos for websites should be 72dpi because this is the maximum resolution that computer monitors can display, so remember to set this option when you batch resize your photos. To keep the filesize down and speed up image display, set the jpeg quality to approx 70%.

If you don't have any batch resizing software you can download excellent free tools such as Irfanview and FastStone Photo Resizer.

www.irfanview.com

www.faststone.org

Pro-Gallery: Tutorial Videos

Video 1: How to create a web page to display your galleries and how to upload your photos using the wizard image uploader.
Click to view Video 1

Video 2: How to create a Gallery and add photos from the file store, and adding the gallery to the web page created in Video 1.
Click to view Video 2

Video 3: How to change the gallery and thumbnail display styles.
Click to view Video 3

Video 4: How to make your gallery eCommerce by adding a price range.
Click to view Video 4

For tutorial videos on using the page editor click here.

 

Pro-Gallery Order Management

The following guides are for managing your gallery orders and setting your price ranges and carriage rates.

For guides on creating & managing your galleries watch the tutorial videos above.

Price Range Management

Many photographers will have different price ranges. One for social photography and a different set of prices for commercial work etc.

You can create as many different price ranges as you like, and then associate a price range to each gallery.

A price option can be defined as STD (for standard print sales where they are to be posted to the customer), or EDF (for Electronic Delivery Files which you send via email or supply via a download link). EDF sales are therefore not counted when calculating delivery charges.
Gallery Orders

All your gallery orders are visible here, and you can view the details, print the order forms and despatch notes, and even view the customer history.

If payment is by cheque you can set the date the cheque was received, so you know not to process the order untill it arrives.

Once you have received payment you can print the order and despatch note, and set the date of despatch.
Carriage Rates

You can manage the delivery charges here, and setup carriage bands for different order values, and associate tariff charges for different zones (delivery countries).

This means that you can charge different rates depending on the value of the order and where the order is being delivered.