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Images & Galleries

Regenerating thumbnails

Log in, go to the image whose thumbnail you want to regenerate, click on “edit image” link. In the page that follows, look at the bottom half for the button “Regenerate Thumb”. Click it. That should do it.

Rearranging image order

Go to the edit page of the gallery and then click on the 'sequencing' link. The resulting page will give you all the options. In addition to that, in the gallery edit page, the most left part of the thumbnail row is the sequence number, something that goes 10,20,30 etc. Change this number according to the sequence you want. Hit the “Update Gallery Image” button after you are done.

Why is there no EXIF info in images?

It has been seen that Photoshop's “Save for Web” feature “deletes” EXIF information from the images. However someone in the forum had pointed out that PS does not actually delete the info, rather it saves it in a format that no software on pbase can retrieve the information from.

So, if you really want to retain the EXIF information of images, but want to decrease the size of the image, you have the following choices:

Uploading more than one image at a time

If you want to upload more than one picture to the same gallery, you can zip (use Winzip or 7-zip or any other software) all the images into one single zip file and then upload them into your required gallery. Even without zipping, you can upload multiple images (or for that matter multiple zip files) at once by going into the edit page of the gallery, clicking on 'upload' link and using the form that is presented.

Note that if you try tp upload a huge zip file or a large number of individual image files, your browser connection with the PBase server may timeout. This is not an issue with the PBase server but rather the way the HTTP protocol works. Try to upload smaller sized or lesser number of files.

If you want to upload multiple images to multiple galleries at the same time, the best way is to zip all the images into a zip file and then upload the file into your Inbox. Once uploaded into the Inbox you can move the images into their respective galleries.

How to make image private

An image can be made private by going to its edit page and unchecking 'This image is publicly viewable' checkbox.

Replace image without losing comments and hit count

Go to the edit page of the image by following the link “edit this image”. In the edit page , you will see a box at the bottom allowing you to upload a new image in place of the present one, while maintaing hits and comments.

Using Javascript to disable right-click

Truth be told, you can't use javascript to disable right click in a fool-proof manner. It just provides a false sense of security.

An image that is exhibited online cannot be protected from stealing, using technology alone. Methods like Javascript only present temporary obstacles to a determined thief. For example, by default, I have set my browser to disable Javascript on all pages I do not explicitly enable. Simpler till, in Opera and Firefox and IE (I am sure other browsers have this feature too), I can save any page along with all the images it contains, onto my local hard disk. Furthermore any image that you view using a browser is stored in the browser's cache, which resides on the hard disk of the surfer and hence accessible to him.

Technologies like watermarks again do not prevent illegal downloads, but they do help in proving before the court that it was indeed your picture that was stolen and is being used by someone else.

If you want to prevent copyright abuse, you will in the end have to rely on a combination of technology, legal and scare tactics. State in your gallery that all images are copyrighted by you and no use is permitted unless you give explicit permission for its use. Maybe put a small copyright (like © Srijith) in your image. If indeed the image gets stolen, send an email to the party involved asserting your copyright. Ask them to take the images down and email you when it is done. Scare them (with or without any concrete background work) that the failure to comply with the instructions will result in you asking your lawyers to start legal actions.

Start taking screen captures of the site that is displaying copyrighted material. If it is not an individual's site (community sites for example or hosted sites like free blogs), send an email to the actual administrator of the host/site informing them about the copyright abuse. Ask them to advice the member concerned or suspend the member's account. Feel free to use the scare tactic here too.

Try not to upload images that are very high resolution. If you have to (say for presenting it to prospective buyers), use a private gallery. Now that you have read so much, a link to Javascript based right-click disabling script is due.

Problems viewing large and original images

This is usually caused by any ad-buster applications or personal firewalls running at the user's end.

A common application that causes problem is Zone Alarm. ZA tries to prevent huge images from being displayed assuming that they are ads. So if you use ZA, you will need to let Pbase images through. For this:

These instructions mentioned above was provided by “Visitor” in a forum thread.

Changing padlock image of a private gallery

You can choose between three options:

  1. Use the gallery's original representative image
  2. Use the PBase default lock image
  3. Enter an image id for your own “locked gallery” image. Note that this image has to be hosted at PBase.

To make changes, go to your passkey page at http://www.pbase.com/passkey and choose your setting under the “Select your locked gallery image” section.

Right now the setting chosen is an account-wide setting, which will be applied to all of your locked galleries. However, soon you wil be able to choose different representative image for each protected gallery.

Deleting ‘Original’ sized images

  1. Go to the gallery's edit page
  2. Select all the pictures
  3. Scroll all the way to the bottom and into the section called “Original Image Processing”
  4. Select “Delete Originals” in the drop down box…
  5. Click “Process Images”

Making galleries private

Refer to the official Help page for a complete detailed explanation.

Small, medium,large and original version of images

When you upload an image to pbase, it tries to create three versions of the image (other than the original you uploaded) - small, medium and large. The dimension of small = 160 x scaled_height, that of medium = 400 x scaled_height and that of large = 800 x scaled_height.

If your originally uploaded image is small, say 780 x some_value, pbase is not able to make a large version of the image since the dimension of the large version is 800 x some_value and your original image is itself smaller that this dimension. Hence the “large” version is not produced.