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1. Why Choose Fotki? Why more and more people come to Fotki? Why among hundreds of photo-sharing websites, each having its own community, more and more users join Fotki every day? What not only marks Fotki out of the ordinary but also makes it distinguishable in every aspect? Having been around since 1998, Fotki is now a famous photo portal powerful both in technological innovation and in sheer number of photo it stores. For more than a decade Fotki has been offering a wide variety of extremely advanced and sophisticated photoproducts, tools and services to its members, and no wonder its community is constantly growing. Besides, the company is one of the most experienced at this market and has a steady business model. With such a background, we are optimistic about the perspectives, full of energy and new ideas and welcome new participants. All of our servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center protected from floods, heat and electric outages. This guarantees your data to be safe with us. And we are here to stay for long! The simplest and most user-friendly interface we have, and advanced and at the same time simple tools we offer are the first to attract users of any level. Fotki's photo uploading tools allow easy uploading pictures from all mainstream operating systems using almost any browser. Java, ActiveX, Pocket PC, FTP, and integration with Web Publishing Wizard for Windows XP - we support them all. Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux users are all welcome here. As for organizing photos, you will be pleased with the way you can rule over any their number - just the way you want. It is possible to rotate and flip photos and decorate them with borders, to assign titles and descriptions to pictures and albums. Even when hundreds of photos are put into hundreds of albums in the subfolders inside the folders (just the same way as on your computer), a tree of the structure you create does not take much room on the screen and makes navigation pretty easy. Neither number of folder and subfolder levels nor the space you can take is limited. Your friends and relatives will be impressed with neat and elegant look of your photos and easiness of finding the desired ones, no matter how huge your collection is. With Fotki, photo sharing is convenient and safe. You may choose between different levels of protection and sharing. The photos of your Private Home are visible to you only. To make any album or folder of your Public Home available to no one but the people you choose you may use various passwords. Only those to whom you give your URL and corresponding password can access a password-protected item. On the contrary, to make so that even those who don't know you could find your pictures among their unimaginable multitude at Fotki when searching for a specific subject or theme, you may mark your photos, albums and folders with keywords. At Fotki you are the site master. The co-branding makes it possible to apply your own design to your Fotki account to change its look and feel or to seamlessly integrate your Fotki albums with other website(s) of your own. No programming skills are required, just some basic HTML knowledge will do. And if you don't know HTML, we are always here to help you. Fotki is your photo lab, too. We apply a state-of-the-art photo-printing technology and the most advanced photo equipment. In USA, our printing lab uses Fujicolor archival paper of the highest quality (it keeps the image bright and crisp for at least fifty years) and Fujifilm professional chemicals. We guarantee outstanding quality and your complete satisfaction. Our print-ordering system is the next summit we have been successfully conquering. You can order prints of any photos you see (of course, if their owner doesn't object); you don't even have to be a member. It is possible to crop pictures before ordering and preview what they look like after cropping. Glossy or matte finish types are available for each size and each photo in the cart. "Global Update" function is for modifying your entire order however large it could be. Finally, adding a whole folder to your shopping cart takes just two mouse-clicks! And, to top it all, we have the most affordable prices you can find on today's market! To make ordering prints easy and convenient, we implemented the "Shopping Cart", an advanced tool, which allows customizing orders to complete satisfaction. With your own account you will be able to track your order and save shipping addresses and credit card info for future use. Information you submit is encrypted via SSL protocol to ensure total secrecy. Creating an account with us is easy and quick. Why not try? At Fotki you may speak out. Each Fotki member has a Guestbook for visitors to leave messages. Also, it is possible to communicate by commenting photos. You may voice your opinion, feelings and ideas about photos by other Fotki members and vice versa. If you don't want someone to comment your photos or to leave messages in your guestbook, disabling those functions or limiting their use to certain groups of people is literally at your fingertips. Next Fotki's zest is possibility of keeping online journals. Among numerous websites hosting such "blogs", as they are often called, even those requiring purchasing membership, sadly, offer no photo services. Fotki has all the cool stuff in one package. At Fotki one can receive publicity and get recognized throughout (and beyond) the community by participating in photo contests that we usually hold once a week. Winners get prizes and fame. Don't miss your chance to compete and win! To begin with you may browse the old contests to see the winning works as well as vote for other people's submissions. And the last but not least, we have a reliable customer service and have been developing an up-to-date help system for you to get help on any topic. Our online Customer Service allows creating inquiries and we respond in timely manner. We also provide help via instant messenger or email. To sum up, Fotki is the right place for both amateurs and professionals to realize any creative idea and even to earn money. If you practice photography to earn your living, Fotki provides you with possibility to sell your photos at your prices. You can literally make money while having a little rest between two shots - we'll take care of your customers' orders and do it for a small 15-percent commission fee, while you keep the rest. And no extra charge for storing photos: a Premium member has unlimited storage space. Next? Yes, we are doing our best to progress! top2. Privacy Policy By accessing or using the Fotki.com site, you agree to our Privacy Policy, as outlined below. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this site. Fotki reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time. Your use of this site will be subject to the most current version of the Privacy Policy at the time of such use. Your Personal Information When you join Fotki, we collect your name, email address, and demographic information. On some of our pages you can order products, make requests and register to receive materials. The information collected at these pages includes: the name, address, contact and billing information, transaction, and credit card information. The Fotki site uses cookies. Cookies are small files written on your machine that help us identify members. We use them to personalize our Web site for you. IP Address We analyze IP addresses for system administration purposes and to gather broad demographic information. We do not link IP addresses to your computer's User ID. When you place an order using our online checkout process we record your computer's IP address along with your order to help us identify fraudulent credit card use. We may share this information with the financial institution that issued the credit card which was used to place the order, or with law enforcement authorities if we determine, or are notified, that the use of the credit card was fraudulent. How Do We Protect Your Information? We have a variety of security measures implemented to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your information is only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special rights to access our servers. All sensitive information (credit card) supplied by our users is transmitted and protected via HTTPS protocol for encrypted transfer of data. We will not store your credit card information in our database unless you explicitly instruct us to do so. Links to Other Sites This site contains links to other sites that may offer information, products or services that may be of interest to you. Fotki is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. Jurisdiction The statutory body that has jurisdiction to hear any claims against the organization regarding possible unfair or deceptive practices and violations of laws or regulations governing privacy is the State of New York. Questions or Comments If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the Web site, you can contact Fotki via email at support@fotki.com. Terms of Services Our Terms of Service can be found here. top3. Terms of Service Agreement Fotki has a number of regulations by which its members are expected to abide. Please familiarize yourself with our Terms of Service policy before you open your Fotki account. Check the checkbox in the "Terms of Service" section by clicking in it only if you understand and agree to observe our rules. If you attempt to submit this form without checking this box, you will be returned to the form and prompted to check it. Terms of Service FOTKI, INC. is the owner and operator of FOTKI.COM, an online photo sharing community. Registered members of Fotki can create online albums and upload graphic files to these albums. Modifications FOTKI, INC. reserves the right to modify any part of this Agreement at any time in its sole discretion, this includes but is not limited to the graphic file storage term, and any Fotki functionality. Any modification is effective immediately upon posting on this page. If any modification to this Agreement is unacceptable to you, you may immediately terminate the Services by closing your account. However, if you do not terminate the Services, or continue to use the Services following modification to this Agreement, your continued use will mean that you have accepted that modification. We will notify about any changes in the Fotki Blog. Acceptable Use Your use of the services provided by Fotki is subject to the following agreement. Violations of this agreement may result in termination of your account with or without notice. Fotki recommends that members maintain their own backups of any 'irreplaceable' content, as Fotki cannot warrant that no loss or corruption of data shall occur. Age Requirements Use of Fotki is limited to persons at least 13 years of age. Nobody under the age of 13 is allowed and no information of any person under the age of 13 will be knowingly collected by Fotki. If you become aware of any person under the age of 13 who uses Fotki, please contact us at support@fotki.com to report such occurrences. Fotki will immediately delete any information of and/or any accounts that we believe to belong to users under the age of 13. Membership Membership is available to anyone who provides all required information including your name, and an accurate and legitimate email address. Premium Membership If you upgrade your current account to Premium Account, you warrant that all the information that you submit is true and accurate, including your credit card number and expiration date, and you agree to pay the annual fee. We accept major credit cards, PayPal, money orders and checks payable in US dollars. Contact us if you have any questions. Your membership is personal to you and the members of your household, and you can not transfer or give your login and password to others. Premium Membership fees are non-refundable and we do not refund charges for unused services. Prohibited Use You may not use Fotki (1) in any manner that violates any law, regulation, treaty or tariff or infringes on the legal rights of any third party, (2) in any manner which is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive, (3) to threaten, harass, abuse or intimidate others, (4) to damage the name or reputation of Fotki, FOTKI, INC., its affiliates, or subsidiaries, (5) to break security on any computer network, or to access an account that does not belong to you, and (6) in any manner that interferes with other customers' use and enjoyment of the services provided by Fotki. Prohibited Content As used herein, "content" shall mean all text, graphics (including avatars), photographs, pictures, drawings, animation, audio, video, and any other material submitted, posted, viewed, transmitted, reproduced and/or distributed by any person or entity in connection with Fotki. You are prohibited from storing, posting, distributing or transmitting any unlawful content at Fotki. Examples of unlawful content include but are not limited to direct threats of physical harm, stalking, any kind of pornography, and copyrighted, trademarked and other proprietary material used without proper authorization. As used herein, "pornography" shall mean any explicit depiction or exhibition of sexual activity and/or sexual imagery that is intended to stimulate erotic, rather than PURELY aesthetic or emotional feelings. Other prohibited content includes but is not limited to: (1) programs containing Trojan horses, virus and/or tools to compromise the security of Fotki and/or other sites, (2) solicitations or advertisements, (3) suggestions or encouragement of illegal activity, (4) private information about any individual such as phone numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers or any other private information, and (5) duplicative posting or "spamming". Please note, that you can not upload images for which you don't have copyrights. Read carefully 10 Big Myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton. Protection of Intellectual Property Fotki complies with The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), respects the intellectual property rights and requires that all users respected DMCA and intellectual property rights of others. By using Fotki services you certify that your use does not infringe upon anybody’s intellectual property. Fotki has been and will continue to vigorously enforce DMCA and to respond quickly to any allegations of intellectual property infringement. Fotki does not allow any copyright infringement and will, if notified properly and if not satisfied with a response by an accused party, remove or disable access to such content. Fotki reserves the right to remove or disable access to content without prior notice as well as to terminate accounts and/or Fotki membership of users whom Fotki determines to be repeat infringers and/or violators of any other clauses of Fotki Terms of Service. Fotki may be required to disclose information to individuals asserting rights under the DMCA. By using Fotki you authorize Fotki to release information about you if required by law or subpoena, without any notice to you. By using Fotki, you agree that you, and not Fotki, are responsible for any violations of any intellectual property rights in any content that you upload to Fotki. If you believe that you are the owner of intellectual property which was copied in such a way by someone on Fotki site that such copying represents violation of your intellectual property rights, please support@fotki.com with the following information included in your Claim Letter (please note that ALL information listed below is required from you in order for us to act upon your complaint):
Upon receipt of a proper notice as described above, Fotki will confirm the existence of the alleged infringing content on Fotki site, notify the user(-s) who posted the alleged infringing content, and take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the alleged infringing content from Fotki site if Fotki, at its sole discretion, deems evidence submitted in the claim sufficient and/or infringement obvious. A user who posted an alleged infringing content may respond to Fotki notice by showing that either: (1) the infringing content has been removed or (2) the he/she has a an appropriate trademark registration or an appropriate valid license covering the use of the content or (3) that posting of the content does not, in fact, infringe upon the alleging party’s rights. If Fotki determines, at its own full discretion, that the user who had posted content allegedly violating someone’s intellectual property rights, does not, in fact, infringe upon the alleging party’s rights and does not violate DMCA, then Fotki will not remove, or will restore, the content in question. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Fotki will promptly comply with the terms of any court order relating to alleged trademark infringement by any user of Fotki. Sales Taxes Fotki.com shall automatically charge applicable sales tax for orders to be delivered to addresses within New York. Fotki may terminate any membership and delete any and all information, communications, postings, albums and image files at any time, without notice, for conduct violating this Agreement or other policies or guidelines set forth by FOTKI, INC. and elsewhere on the Fotki web site. Arbitration Clause In the event a dispute shall arise between the parties to this agreement, it is hereby agreed that the dispute shall be referred to a United States Arbitration and Mediation (USA&M) office to be designated by USA&M National Headquarters for arbitration in accordance with the applicable USA&M Rules of Arbitration. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and legally binding and judgment may be entered thereon. Each party shall be responsible for its share of the arbitration fees in accordance with the applicable Rules of Arbitration. In the event a party fails to proceed with arbitration, unsuccessfully challenges the arbitrator's award, or fails to comply with the arbitrator's award, the other party is entitled to costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee for having to compel arbitration or defend or enforce the award. Force Majeure Fotki shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance under this Agreement to the extent said failures or delays are proximately caused by causes beyond that party's reasonable control and occurring without its fault or negligence, including, without limitation, failure of suppliers, subcontractors, and carriers, or party to substantially meet its performance obligations under this Agreement, provided that, as a condition to the claim of non-liability, the party experiencing the difficulty shall give the other prompt written notice, with full details following the occurrence of the cause relied upon. Dates by which performance obligations are scheduled to be met will be extended for a period of time equal to the time lost due to any delay so caused. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, SHALL Fotki and FOTKI, INC. ITS AFFILIATES AND ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR AGGRAVATED DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, NEGLIGENCE OR FAILURE TO MONITOR CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE, SHOPPING CART OR ANY OTHER CONTENT, LOSS OF INCOME OR PROFIT, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND THIRD PARTY CLAIMS) ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE FOTKI.COM OR INABILITY TO USE FOTKI.COM PROPERLY OR TO YOUR FULL SATISFACTION, ANY OF FOTKI.COM'S CONTENT, SERVICES, PRODUCTS AND/OR ANY RELATED SOFTWARE, EVEN IF FOTKI.COM OR AN AUTHORIZED FOTKI.COM REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL FOTKI.COM'S and FOTKI, INC.'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THE FOTKI.COM WEB SITE. In recognition of the relative risks and benefits of Internet business to Fotki, Inc., the risks have been allocated such that you agree, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to limit the liability Fotki for any and all claims, losses, costs, damages of any nature whatsoever or claims expenses from any cause or causes, including attorneys’ fees and costs and expert witness fees and costs, so that the total aggregate liability of Fotki shall not exceed $500, or your total fees and costs, whichever is smaller. It is intended that this limitation apply to any and all liability or cause of action however alleged or arising, unless otherwise prohibited by law. PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER ("LIMITATION OF LIABILITY") SHALL SURVIVE THE TERMINATION OF YOUR RIGHT TO USE THIS SITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU WILL BE FULLY LIABLE FOR ALL DAMAGES RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM YOUR USE OF THIS SITE. Privacy Fotki and FOTKI, INC. will not release any details regarding the member to any third party, except as required by law. Fotki and FOTKI, INC. understand and respect your desire for privacy. Fotki and FOTKI, INC. will not disclose any content posted by you unless required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with the law or comply with a legal process served on Fotki, (2) protect and defend the rights of Fotki and FOTKI, INC., or (3) act in an emergency to protect the personal safety of our guests or the public. Read our Privacy Policy here. Copyright and Trademark It is the obligation of the individual members to ensure that the posting of their photos is not violating any copyright. Members are solely responsible for the content of their photo albums. If you feel a member is violating your copyright, please contact that member. Fotki and FOTKI, INC. claim no ownership rights in the content you place on your Fotki albums. We will not use Member's images for marketing purposes or any other purposes without obtaining the Member's express permission. Fotki is a registered trademark, and other FOTKI.COM and FOTKI, INC. product names, service names, slogans or logos referenced in this web site are trademarks or registered trademarks of FOTKI, INC. All other company, product or service names referenced in this web site are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of their respective owners. All images, text and any other content on this site are protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights and laws. Fotki and FOTKI, INC. reserves its rights in and to all other content contained in the web site. Unless otherwise noted, all content, other than that contained in the Member's photo album, is copyrighted by Fotki: © FOTKI, INC. All Rights Reserved. top4. Signing Up for Fotki Account To create an account with Fotki:
4.1 UserName Your UserName should contain only letters and numbers, no spaces or special characters except for dash "-". . It is unuque and it is used for authorization purposes. Your UserName is a part of your Fotki public pages URL, which always looks like that: http://public.fotki.com/YourUserName/ and is seen to anyone looking at your Fotki pages. top4.2 Password Your password (case-sensitive, at least four characters long) protects your account from unauthorized access and is to be entered every time you are logging in. It is worth mentioning that you should never give your password to anyone. Either remember it or write it down and keep in a safe place. top4.3 Email Address
The address must be valid and working. It will be stored with your account and used by Fotki staff to contact you in case you need assistance. We guarantee the address will never be given out or sold to any third-party persons or companies. top4.4 Account Types: Premium Membership vs. Free Account
5. Logging In and Out Every time you want to access your Fotki albums, "My Setting" page, email box or online journals, as well as to participate in Fotki photo contests, you will be asked to log in first. 'To log in' means to enter a username and a password on the Login screen. When logged in, you can change any of your account contents, and so can anyone who may use your computer while you are logged in. To prevent unauthorized access to your Fotki pages, logging out when leaving Fotki even for a while is strongly recommended. Basically, logging out is a good habit. top5.1 Forgot Your Password? To recover access to your Fotki account use the "Forgot your password or username?" form on the Login screen. To recover a password:
If the email address associated with your username is wrong or no longer exists, our message cannot go through. In this case, contact us by clicking the "Contact Us" link on the Confirmation screen. Fixing this problem may take a while, and that is why we ask you to give us your valid email address when signing up. top5.2 Forgot Your UserName? To recover access to your Fotki account use the "Forgot your password or username?" form on the Login screen. To recover a username:
If the email address associated with your username is wrong or no longer exists, our message cannot go through. In this case, contact us by clicking the "Contact Us" link on the Confirmation screen. Fixing this problem may take a while, and that is why we ask you to give us your valid email address when signing up. If at this point you want to change your password:
If all was done right, you will get to the screen confirming that the password was successfully changed and inviting you to log into your Fotki account using your new password. top6. Photo Sharing In this section you will learn:
6.1 Albums An album is a collection of image files (just like photo albums you have at home). An album can include any number of photos. Albums can be grouped into folders and subfolders (just like the way you do it with all the files on your computer). top6.1.1 Creating an Album To create an album:
You can start uploading photos to your new album right after that. Basically, an album is created just after you have only entitled it. Album's name in URL will be generated automatically, and most of the advanced properties will be set by default, i.e. as they are defined in the "Albums" subsection of the "Settings" section on your "My Settings" page. Also, you can set all of the album's properties, in the "Common Properties", "Advanced Properties" and "Photo-Session Location" subsections. After your album is created, you will be able to modify its current settings at any time. top6.1.1.1 Common Properties Title. Give your album a title that can be a clue to its contents. Title length is limited, a too long one will be cut off. Date taken is format-neutral. Just select date items from the "Month", "Day" and "Year" drop-down menus. Description. It's a short summary of album's contents. Description can be of any lenght. If it exceeds 200 signs or 3 lines, the rest will be invisible in the standard header. To view the entire description, click "... more" under the cut-off one. Name in URL. If not specified, an album's URL name will be practically the same as its title. So, if a public album's name is, say, "Vacation 2005", its URL address will be: http://public.fotki.com/UserName/.../vacation2005. Access password. An empty field means NO password. Password-protect your album if you want it to be viewed only by your friends and relatives, send the album's URL address and password to those persons and the album will be only accessible to them. Email/MMS address for uploading. Create an email/MMS address for your album so that to be able to upload photos through email and from a mobile phone. An address will look like this: YourUserName+AnyLettersAndFigures@fotki.com. The dot "." can be used as an alternative to plus sign "+" when sending your photos from a mobile phone. Mark as "containing objectionable/edgy content" checkbox. While Fotki supports freedom of speech and artistic expression, it also supports the right of anyone to be free from objectionable content. Therefore, we expressly ask you to use your best judgment and to properly mark your albums. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. It is commonly beneficial to keep Fotki a place of clean and nice fun. Also, if you a proprietor of "edgy" content, you may benefit from it due to attracting the like-minded individuals who may be searching for it. Later on you will be able to modify current album settings at any time. top6.1.1.2 Advanced Properties In this section, copyright for an album's photos, and album's layout and privacy preferences are set. Initially, all of the advanced properties, except for the copyright, are marked as "From Settings". This means they are default ones, i.e. set as defined in the "Album" subsection of the "Settings" section of your "My Settings" page. Some advanced properties (they are marked with a special sign After your album is created and advanced properties set, you will be able to modify its current settings at any time. top6.1.1.2.1 Copyright A copyright message will be placed under each photo of your album. you may set a default copyright message, as well. It will be automatically applied to all of your albums. To set a default copyright, go to the "Albums" subsection of the "Settings" section of your "My Settings" page. top6.1.1.2.2 Photo View Size While the uploaded original images are stored on Fotki servers, for viewing purposes their resized copies are displayed in your album. They can be of different size. Choose a preferable one from the drop-down menu. Important! This preference is availble with Premium membership only. top6.1.1.2.3 Album Icon An album icon, i.e. a small picture representing an album, can be:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. top6.1.1.2.4 Posting Comments Allowed for From the drop-down menu, choose who is allowed to post comments to your photos:
6.1.1.2.5 Viewing Comments Allowed for From the drop-down menu, choose who is allowed to view comments to your photos:
6.1.1.2.6 The Tree in Album View The Tree to the left of the viewing window is a graphic representation of the list of all of your folders and albums. Basically, the Tree either displays the entire photo collection structure including folders, subfolders and albums or hides albums and shows folders and subfolders only. For an album in the thumbnail view, you can set two Tree-related preferences:
In case the Tree is set shown, you can hide it (and make it visible again, as well) at any moment by clicking on the vertical splitter (a narrow vertical bar) to the left of the viewing window. This preference does not affect the "Show albums in the Tree" option for the folder view. The latter is set for the "Public Home" folder in the "Folder" subsection of the "Settings" section of your "My Settings" page. top6.1.1.2.7 Show Album Description in Full Size You can choose whether or not the full album description will be shown when viewing albums and photos. To turn the full album description on and off, go to "My Settings" -> Settings -> Albums (Change) -> Show Album Description in Full Size -> Save Changes. Set it to "Yes" for the full descriptions to be shown, set it to "No" if you want only a few lines of the description to be shown (you will be able to see the full description by clicking "more" in the end of the description). Note that this change will apply by default to all albums in your account. What if you want the full description to show in just one album and not to show in the rest of them? You can control each album individually. View the album, then click "Album properties" under "Album menu" on your left -> "Advanced Properties show/hide" (bottom of the page) -> Show Album Description in Full Size -> Save Changes. top6.1.1.2.8 Photo Frame Style Frames for photo thumbnailas and full-size photos can be chosen from a few ready-to-use border styles. When choosing frames, photo-frame styles are possible to preview in the small window with a scroll bar: To select a photo frame style:
The photo frame style you set through this form applies only to the current album. top6.1.1.2.9 Album Layout Currently, only a basic album layout ia available. With this layout, photos' thumbnails (small pictures representing photos) are arranged in raws and columns. To specify how many thumbnails per page will be seen, set the number of rows (from 2 to 12) and columns (from 1 to 10) each page contains. top6.1.1.2.10 Originals Available to Set who is allowed to download the originals of your photos:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. Important!
6.1.1.2.11 Ordering Prints Allowed for Set who is allowed to order prints of your photos at Fotki regular prises:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. Important! If you set custom prices to sell prints of your photos, the above option will be automatically disabled to prevent ordering your photos' prints at regular prices and "Disabled because of selling prices set for this album" notification will appear next to it. top6.1.1.2.12 Show Camera Model to Set who is allowed to view your camera model:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. top6.1.1.2.13 Hide Album in Listing from If "Show Albums in the Tree" preference is set to "Yes", all the albums of your "Public Home" folder are visible in the Tree. For some reason you may want to hide some albums in the Tree listing, to make them as if not existing for your visitors. Say, you want some album to be known to strictly definite persons, to whom you will send its direct URL address. An album set as hidden in listing is marked with an eye icon: A hidden album will be only visible:
By default, this preference is set to "Do not hide"; and you can set it to hide an album from:
6.1.1.2.14 Sharing photos allowed for If you have photos in your Fotki account, you can always share them. Here are some examples of sharing: All the information you may possibly need to share a photo (URLs, HTML tags, forum and journal codes) is available in one place. When you view any of your photos, you will notice a link under the photo saying "Share Photo". Click on it to see information on how and where you can share this photo. You can make this information available to other people which will make it possible for them to share your photos as well. Go to "My Settings" -> Settings -> Albums (Change) -> Sharing photos allowed for (choose an option) -> Save Changes. If you choose "Anybody", the information for sharing will be available to any person who comes to your site, member or non-member. If you select "Fotki members only", this information will be visible only to logged in Fotki members. If "My Fotki Friends only" is selected, the sharing information will be available only to Fotki members who are currently listed as your Friends. And finally, if you choose "Myself only", the sharing info will be visible only to you and only when you are logged in. After you click "Save Changes", the new settings will apply by default to all your Fotki albums. If you wish to apply different settings (other than default) to some of your albums, you can control each album individually. View the album, then click "Album Properties" under Album Menu on your left -> Advanced Properties show/hide -> Sharing photos allowed for -> Save Changes. top6.1.1.3 Photo-Session Location Some modern digital camera models are equipped with GPS. This makes it possible for the camera to automatically write its current longitude and latitude to the image's EXIF. This feature is very useful when one needs to find photographs taken at a particular place. But even if your camera does not have a GPS card, you can still specify the location where the photos in a particular album were taken using a geographical name (e.g. Guadalajara, Mexico) or its global coordinates or both. To use this feature, view your album, click "Album Properties" on your left, go to the "Photo-Session Location" section and click "Location Manager" under the map. You will see the list of all locations that you have previously defined (if any). Also, there will be an option to add a new location either by finding the place on the map or by entering its geographic coordinates (if known). Clicking the "Find on the map" button will display a large world map. Find an approximate area on the map where you believe the photo/album was taken and click there. The map will zoom in. You can refine your search by zooming in as much as you need to. When you are sure that you have found the exact location, click on it, write the name of the place in the "Nameplace" window and click "add". The photo session location will be saved in your account settings. Check the "Show in Photo-session location drop-down menu" checkbox if you want this location to show in the list under "Photo session location" in your album settings. top6.1.2 Viewing an Album Viewing photo albums is the essence of photo sharing. When viewing albums without logging-in, editing options are disabled. To view your own album, find its icon in the Folder Tree and click on it to see the album in the photo-thumbnail view. (If the Folder Tree is not seen, make it visible by clicking on the narrow vertical bar on the left of the viewing window.) To view other people's photo albums:
6.1.3 Renaming an Album and Changing Its Properties To rename an album or to change its properties, use the "Album Properties" form, which is reachable by two ways.
In both cases you will get to the "Album Properties" form. Make the changes you want and save changes. In the first section of the form you can change album name, date the album was taken, its description, URL name and password. In the "Advanced Properties" section you can additionally change long description, keywords, copyright message, icon appearance, photo comments and folder-tree settings, photo view style, number and layout of thumbnails on a page, and downloading, printing and camera model settings. top6.1.4 Moving an Album to a Different Location You can move any album anywhere on your account. To do it:
6.1.5 Sorting/Rearranging Albums in a Folder Normally, albums are added to a folder in the order you created them, but you can rearrange (sort) the albums by update date, date the photos were taken or by name (alphabetically) at any time. When rearranging albums, it is possible to specify their ascending/descending order. For example, ascending-order arrangement by date moves older albums to the top and newer ones to the bottom of the list; ascending-order arrangement by name puts albums, whose names start with "A", on the top and those, whose name statrs with "Z", on the bottom. Also, rearranging can be done manually. To rearrange albums in a folder:
In case you selected manual rearrangement, you get a to the "Sorting Albums in Folder Manually" screen with the list of your albums' thumbnails and "new position:" field to the right of each thumbnail. Specify a position number for each album and click "Rearrange". top6.1.6 Deleting an Album To delete an album from your Fotki account:
To delete a few albums from your Fotki account:
6.2 Folders Even if you have hundreds of albums and folders on your Fotki account, you will always be able to instantly find what you need, no matter how complex is your account structure. A good way to organize your albums is grouping those having something in common (a year of creation, a place, a theme, etc.), so that to easily find them at any time. On Fotki, a place to put a number of albums is called 'a folder'. Fotki folders are just like the folders you have in your computer. To achieve an even better result when organizing photos, create subfolders (folders inside folders), which can contain more subfolders, and so on. top6.2.1 Creating a Folder You can create as many folders and subfolders as you wish. To create a new folder or subfolder:
You can change the name, description and other properties of your new folder or move it to a new location at any time. top6.2.1.1 Folder/Subfolder Name Since a folder usually contains several photoalbums, its should reflect a feature that is common to all of those albums. It may be year, place, theme, etc. - anything describing the contents of all the albums in a folder. For example, in a folder named "2002", the albums can be grouped, whose photos were taken during year 2002. Subfolders (folders inside folders or inside other subfolders) are meant for more detailed organizing. Group the content of the "2002" folder into subfolders named, for example, "Me", "Kids", "Friends", etc. and you will exactly know where to find, say, that forgotten picture of your friend Bob, which you took last year. top6.2.1.2 Folder Description It is folder's short summary. A good way to describe a folder is to list the events covered by the albums collected in this folder, i.e. "Car-expo, "Montreal"; "Rock festival, San-Diego"; "Bob's birthday party, New York". top6.2.1.3 Folder Keywords they are used by the Fotki search engine, when someone is searching for a particular topic of interest. If a folder's keyword matches the searcher's request, the folder comes up in the search results. top6.2.1.4 Folder's URL Name It is the name used in its URL address. For example, your public folder named "MyFamily" will have the following URL address: http://public.fotki.com/YourUserName/MyFamily. A folder's URL name is optional; if it is not specified, the name you gave to a foder in the "New Folder Creation" form will be used as its URL name. top6.2.1.5 Folder Password To set the desired level of security, you can protect each folder with its own password. Send the folder's URL address and password to the people you like and the folder will be accessible to them only. top6.2.2 Viewing the Contents of a Folder Actually, you have not to be logged in to view the contents of either your or others' folders. But in such a case, the editing options wil be disabled in your albums as well. When viewing somebody else's folders, editing options are disabled for you in the albums of other Fotki members irrespective of wheather you are or you are not logged. top6.2.2.1 Viewing Contents of Your Own Folders Basically, to view your own folders, you must be at your "My Fotki" page. When viewing the contents of your "Public Home" folders without logging in, editing options are disabled. To access your "Private Home" folders, you have to be logged in. The thumbnail of the folder of interest may be displayed either in the Folder Tree or in the viewing window. In both cases, click on the folder of interest to open it and its contents will appear in the viewing window. (If the Folder Tree is not seen, make it visible by clicking on the splitter - narrow vertical bar - on the left of the viewing window.) top6.2.2.2 Viewing Contents of Other Fotki Members' Folders To view the contents of somebody else's folders:
6.2.3 Renaming a Folder and Changing Its Properties To rename a folder or to change its properties, use the "Folder Properties" editing form, which is reachable from the "My Fotki" page by two ways.
In both cases you get to the "Folder Properties" form. Do the changes you want and save them. You can rename the folder and change its name, description, keywords, URL name and password at any time. top6.2.4 Moving a Folder to a Different Location You can move any folder, as well as several folders at once, anywhere on your account anytime. Also, replacing a folder from "Public Home" to "Private Home" and vice versa is possible. To move a folder/folders:
6.2.5 Sorting Folders Normally, (sub)folders are added to the parent folders in the order you create them, but rearranging (sorting) by update date and name (alphabetically) is possible at any time. When rearranging folders/subfolders by date and name, you can choose between ascending and descending order. For example, ascending-order arrangement by date moves older folders to the top and newer ones to the bottom of the list; ascending-order arrangement by name puts the folders, whose names start with "A", on the top and those, whose names start at with "Z", on the bottom. Also, rearranging can be done manually. To rearrange (sub)folders:
Important! Subfolders, which do not have their own sorting settings, will inherit settings of the current folder. top6.2.6 Deleting a Folder Important! Before deleting a folder you have to erase all of its contents, otherwize deleting is impossible.
In both cases you get to the Warning screen asking if you do want to delete the selected folder(s). Confirm it by clicking "OK", otherwise click "Cancel". top6.3 Photos In most common sense, digital photos (pictures taken by a digital camera or scanned ones) are image files that can be treated the same way we do it with most other files: we create them, open (view), edit, group into folders, move, copy and delete. On Fotki, photos are stored in albums, and each album can hold any their number. Similar to albums and folders, photos have their own properties like title, description, tags, URL name, copyright, etc. Adding photos to albums is done by uploading. There are several uploading methods on Fotki. Their choice depends on the number of photos to be uploaded and on the configuration of your computer. top6.3.1 Editing Photo Properties Before changing photo properties, make sure you are logged in. top6.3.1.1 Changing Properties of a Single Photo For that purpose, use the "Edit Photo Properties" form. Through it you can change photo's title, description, tags, copyright and name in URL at any time.
6.3.1.2 Bulk Edit Through bulk edit, it is possible to change properties for all the photos on an album page at once. You can change title, description, tags, copyright and name in URL of any number of photos on an album page.
6.3.1.3 Photo Properties They are five. top6.3.1.3.1 Title Although photo title may simply state what is there on the photo ("Me", "My monkey", "Flowers", "Honolulu"), a little creativity and a sense of humor can do miracles. Those participating in photo contests know that a good title often leads to photo's success. So, don't be boring! top6.3.1.3.2 Description Good description of a photo can "animate" it, giving a viewer additional information about characters portrayed on it or about the surroundings, in which the captured episode took place. Descriptions also help you, the photographer, recall much of the information people tend to forget with time. top6.3.1.3.3 Photo Tags The Fotki search engine uses photo tags when you or someone else is searching for a particular topic of interest. If a photo's tag matches the searcher's request, the photo comes up in the search results. For instance, a photo of Balrog can have such tags as "Balrog", "Tolkien", "fantasy", some date, etc. In fact, choice of a tag has no limits: one can describe anything with them. You may assign any photo any number of various tags and easily manage them. Search by photo tags is executed through the "Photo Tags" page and can be done two ways, depending on whether you know which tag you are looking for or not. top6.3.1.3.3.1 Adding and Managing Photo Tags You may assign any photo any number of various tags and easily manage them.
To add tags to a photo:
All the tags added will be displayed (with all tag's words capitalized) to the right of the photo under the "Tags:" head. To manage tags:
6.3.1.3.3.2 Search by Photo Tags There is a "Photo Tags" link in your Member Panel. Clicking on it opens your Photo Tags page, where your tag list - a complete listing of tags used in your albums - is presented. Enter some word into the "Search" field to find all photos related to the specified tag. Or look through the tag list and find a tag of interest in it. Each tag is a link: click on the tag chosen and a virtual album of all photos having this tag will be instantly created. Clicking on some other tag will produce another album. Browsing albums this way is fun, but, needless saying, this search tool will be standing you in good stead. It makes it possible easily and quickly find and handle even the photos taken years ago if such photo has at least one tag. top6.3.1.3.4 Copyright If a photo is copyrighted by you or someone else, copyright message can be set for it. If all the photos in an album are copyrighted by the same person, you can set a copyright message for the whole album. Also, it is possible to set a default copyright message, which will be automatically applied to all the albums. It can be done in the "Albums" subsection of the "Settings" section of your "My Settings" page. top6.3.1.3.5 Name in URL It stands in photo's URL address. (Example: if a public photo's URL name is "bob25", its URL address will be: http://public.fotki.com/UserName/.../bob25. html ). If an URL name of a photo is not specified, its filename (the name under which it was uploaded) will be used for it. top6.3.2 Rotating and Flipping a Photo To rotate a photo 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise:
When flipping a photo horizontally, you get its mirror view (the right side of the photo becomes its left side). When flipping a photo vertically, it turns upside down. To flip a photo:
6.3.3 Verifying a Photo If a photo is not displayed properly, click "Verify" in the Photo Menu. In most cases, verifying your photo will fix the problem. Most display problems are caused by database inconsistencies; and the "Verify" function corrects them. top6.3.4 Reloading EXIF If your image contains EXIF data, its "EXIF Image Details" link opens up a new window with Width, Height, Focal Length, F-Number, Exposure Time, Metering Mode, Exposure Program, Compensation, ISO Speed, Flash Mode, and Date Picture Taken info. If the EXIF information for an image does not show, click the "Reload EXIF" link in its Photo Menu to make the extractor attempt to read the embedded EXIF info from the image file once again. top6.3.5 Sorting Photos in an Album Normally, photos are added to an album in the order you upload them, but if you want to rearrange (to sort) them by filename (alphabetic or numeric), title or upload date, you can do that at any time. When rearranging photos, it is possible to specify their ascending/descending order. For example, ascending-order arrangement by upload date lists older photos first and newer ones last; ascending-order arrangement by title puts photos, whose titles start with "A", in the beginning of the list and those with "Z" in the end. Also, sorting photos in an album can be done manually. To sort photos in an album:
6.3.6 Copying Photos to Another Album When copying a photo, one copy stays in the source album and the other one goes to the destination album. To copy one or more photos to another album:
6.3.7 Moving Photos to Another Album To move photos to another album:
6.3.8 Deleting Photos To avoid deleting any photos by mistake, having backup files of most valuable photos is strongly recommended. To delete your photo(s):
6.3.9 Viewing Photos When viewing an album, you see the thumbnails of its photos. Clicking on a thumbnail gives you a full view of the photo represented by the thumbnail. When in full view, you also see the photo's description, its tags, comments and the text area, where you can leave your own comment. To view the next or previous photo in the album, click on "Next >>" or "<< Previous" on the right top of the photo. Also, it is possible to go to the next photo by clicking directly on the current photo. If the photo you are viewing has tags, they are seen to the right of the photo. To search for other photos having the same tag, click on it. While in photo view, you can open the original uploaded photo by clicking on the link under the viewed photo. When logged in, the Photo Menu of the Member Panel enables you to edit, rotate, flip and delete your photos, as well as to verify them, reload their EXIFs, delete all comments or the original, and to set custom prices (if you are a Premium member). Also, you can:
6.3.9.1 Originals vs Resized Versions On Fotki, every photo is present in two versions: one is original and the other resized. The original one is the image file uploaded to Fotki. When your original photo islarger than 500 x 500 pixels, Fotki resizes it and displays the resized version on your personal Fotki page. However, the original is also available for viewing and downloading by you or your visitors (if you specify it so). You can see the original, when there is "Get Original Uploaded Photo" link under the viewed photo. If there isn't, two possibilities exist:
6.3.10 Viewing Slide Shows A slide show is a photo-view mode, in which the photos of an album are displayed automatically, one after another. Slide shows eliminate the need to click on each individual photo to view it; your computer does it for you. To view a slide show:
A slide show takes place in a special window divided into two sections. In the left (smaller) one, the thumbnails of all photos of the current album are displayed; the thumbnail of the photo being shown is framed. The right (bigger) section is the viewing window for displaying the full-size photos. There is a taskbar with a few buttons beneath the viewing window. To pause or resume the show, click "Pause" or "Play" button, respectively. To skip a photo and go to the next one, click ">>" button; to go back to the previous photo, click "<<". By clicking "Settings" button you get to the Slide Show Settings screen, where you can change the duration of each photo being shown (from 1 to 10 seconds), background and font color, encoding, number of columns in the left section of the window (from 1 to 3), image and text position and cache settings. Also, you can add a fade-in/fade-out visual effect to the show. To end the slide show and return to the current album, click "Exit" button in the lower right corner of the window. You can choose who is allowed to view your photos as a slide show (anybody, Fotki members only, your friends only or just you) or turn this mode off by changing the "Slideshow Access" preference in the "Albums" subsection of the "Settings" section of the "My Settings" page. top6.3.11 Using Your Photos on Other Websites Photos stored on Fotki can be used on other websites, such as online forums, auctions, weblogs, etc. This feature is called 'external linking' and is only available to Fotki Premium members. To use a photo placed on your Fotki account on another website, insert the HTML tag given below: The full photo's URL for external use is given in the line "Image URL for use on external servers:" under the photo's title beneath the photo. Copy the full address there and paste it into the HTML tag to replace "Photo's URL", and people visiting that website will see your photo instead of that tag. top6.3.12 Downloading Photos Downloading means saving files found on the Internet to a local computer. To download a photo you have found while browsing friend's or relative's albums:
Downloading an original image is only possible if its owner enabled the "Allow Downloading of Originals" setting for the particular album. To prevent downloading of any photos from some album, make it private or protect it with a password. top6.3.12.1 Using FTP to Recover Lost Photos If you have unfortunately lost all of your photos on your hard drive, but those photos are stored on Fotki, it is possible to download them back to your computer from fotki.com with the folder structure created there. For that purpose, you can use any FTP client (FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol). fotki.com supports both uploading and downloading photos via FTP. To connect to fotki.com, use the following host name: ftp.fotki.com. Your UserName and password are the same you use when logging into your Fotki account. Once you login via FTP client, you will see folders which mimic the folder structure of your "Photo Albums" page. Important! It is only available to Premium Fotki members. top6.4 Uploading Photos Fotki recognizes and accepts the following image file formats: JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg), PNG (*.png), PSD (*.psd), BMP (*.bmp), GIF (*.gif) and TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff). Other formats are not (yet) supported. Before uploading photos, make sure that you have previously created at least one album in your Fotki account. To upload photos:
6.4.1 Choosing Upload Method Fotki suggests a variety of uploading methods:
6.4.1.1 Firewall Issues Firewalls are designed to protect corporate or home networks from outsiders. If you are behind a firewall, Java uploader will work just fine. If you upload files to Fotki via FTP, use PASSIVE MODE. Depending on the application you use, the way you set this mode may be slightly different. Consult the help file of your FTP client for exact instructions on using PASSIVE MODE. top6.4.2 ActiveX Perfect for batch upload. To add photos to an album using this method:
The properties of the photos to be uppload are specified in the "Upload List". top6.4.2.1 Upload List In the "Order" and "File Name" fields of the "Upload List" description bar, the order of uploading and filename of a photo to be uploaded are automatically specified. If photo's thumbnail is not seen in the "Thumbnail" field, go to "Settings" and check "Show Thumbnails in Upload List" checkbox of the "Miscellaneous" tab. Size and resolution data are displayed in the respective fields. top6.4.2.2 Resizing The uploader can resize pictures on uploading, so that photos upload faster and take less space on server. Its enabling/disabling is possible through the "Resizing" tab of the upload "Settings", where either keeping the original size or bulk resizing of the photos to small, medium or large size is available. Important! Do not enable this feature if you are about to sell these photos or to order their prints. top6.4.3 Java Applet Perfect for batch upload. To add photos to an album using this method:
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