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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 Guest Book 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 guest book, 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! top1.1 Video Tutorial: Overview top 2. 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. Data deletion / Account closure Before closing your account, make sure it is absolutely necessary. Please, exercise extreme caution. Keep backup copies of your most important image files on your computer. Important! When closing your Fotki account, all its content (photos, photo comments, photo albums, guest book messages, emails, etc.) will be PERMANENTLY deleted and will not be recoverable. To close your Fotki account and delete your data:
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. By acquiring Fotki Premium Membership you agree to recurring billing: As a convenience to you, we can automatically renew your annual Premium membership when it is about to expire. You will be able to cancel the recurrent billing any time by contacting our Customer Service either through our Contact Form: http://myaccount.fotki.com/customer_service/new_inquiry/ or email in any way convenient to you: http://about.fotki.com/contact_us/ (Fotki would appreciate your feedback and hearing the reasons why you are canceling - any criticism is welcome! - but a simple "Cancel my account" is enough for your account to be canceled.). 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. User-generated Video Help You can also find the Video Tutorial here. Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the video tutorial for the Fotki community. top4.1 Overview top 4.2 Uploading top 4.3 Photo Tools top 4.4 Account Structure top 4.5 Ordering & Selling top 4.6 Sharing top 4.7 Communication top 5. Signing Up for Fotki Account To create an account with Fotki:
5.1 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. top5.2 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. top5.3 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. top5.4 Account Types: Premium Membership
6. 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. top6.1 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. top6.2 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. top7. Photo Sharing In this section you will learn:
7.1 Video Tutorial: Account Structure
Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the Video Tutorial for the Fotki community. top7.2 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). top7.2.1 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 Account" 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. top7.2.1.1 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. top7.2.1.2 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 Account" 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. top7.2.1.2.1 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 Account" page. top7.2.1.2.2 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. top7.2.1.2.3 Album Icon An album icon, i.e. a small picture representing an album, can be:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. top7.2.1.2.4 Posting Comments Allowed for From the drop-down menu, choose who is allowed to post comments to your photos:
7.2.1.2.5 Viewing Comments Allowed for From the drop-down menu, choose who is allowed to view comments to your photos:
7.2.1.2.6 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 Account" page. top7.2.1.2.7 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 Account" -> 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. top7.2.1.2.8 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. top7.2.1.2.9 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. top7.2.1.2.10 Originals Available to Set who is allowed to download the originals of your photos:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. Important!
7.2.1.2.11 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. top7.2.1.2.12 Show Camera Model to Set who is allowed to view your camera model:
Choose what you like from the drop-down menu. top7.2.1.2.13 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:
7.2.1.2.14 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 Account" -> 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. top7.2.1.3 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. top7.2.2 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:
7.2.3 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. top7.2.4 Moving an Album to a Different Location You can move any album anywhere on your account. To do it:
7.2.5 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". top7.2.6 Deleting an Album To delete an album from your Fotki account:
To delete a few albums from your Fotki account:
7.3 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. top7.3.1 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. top7.3.1.1 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. top7.3.1.2 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". top7.3.1.3 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. top7.3.1.4 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. top7.3.1.5 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. top7.3.2 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. top7.3.2.1 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.) top7.3.2.2 Viewing Contents of Other Fotki Members' Folders To view the contents of somebody else's folders:
7.3.3 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. top7.3.4 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:
7.3.5 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. top7.3.6 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". top7.4 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. top7.4.1 Video Tutorial: Photo Tools
Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the Video Tutorial for the Fotki community. top7.4.2 Editing Photo Properties Before changing photo properties, make sure you are logged in. top7.4.2.1 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.
7.4.2.2 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.
7.4.2.3 Photo Properties They are five. top7.4.2.3.1 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! top7.4.2.3.2 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. top7.4.2.3.3 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. top7.4.2.3.3.1 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:
7.4.2.3.3.2 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. top7.4.2.3.4 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 Account" page. top7.4.2.3.5 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. top7.4.3 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:
7.4.4 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. top7.4.5 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. top7.4.6 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:
7.4.7 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:
7.4.8 Moving Photos to Another Album To move photos to another album:
7.4.9 Deleting Photos To avoid deleting any photos by mistake, having backup files of most valuable photos is strongly recommended. To delete your photo(s):
7.4.10 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:
7.4.10.1 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:
7.4.11 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 Account" page. top7.4.12 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. top7.4.13 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. top7.4.13.1 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. top7.5 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:
7.5.1 Video Tutorial: Uploading top 7.5.2 Choosing Upload Method Fotki suggests a variety of uploading methods:
7.5.2.1 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. top7.5.3 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". top7.5.3.1 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. top7.5.3.2 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. top7.5.4 Java Applet 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". top7.5.4.1 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. To specify the photo's title and description, click the tool icon in the "Action" section. In the "IPTC editor" window opened, type in the photo's title and description into the fields provided. Size and resolution data are displayed in the respective fields. top7.5.4.2 Resizing The uploader can resize pictures on uploading, so that photos upload faster and take less space on server. Enabling/disabling this feature 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.
If it is enabled, there will be the "Resize on upload is ON" notification under "Start Upload" button. Important! Do not enable this feature if you are about to sell these photos or to order their prints. top7.5.5 MS Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard MS Windows XP application allows easy upload of your files to your Fotki albums. Due to FotkiXP, a new software product designed by our programming team, Web Publishing Wizard and your personal Fotki pages are integrated to provide another great way for you to publish your photos online. To install Fotki Publishing Wizard integration, click "FotkiXP.exe" on the "Add/Upload Photos" page and follow the instructions. top7.5.5.1 Uploading Photos Using Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard To upload photos via Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard:
7.5.5.2 Uninstalling Fotki Integration
7.5.6 Fotki Upload Bookmarklet Fetcher Fotki Upload Bookmarklet Fetcher is for quick and easy fetching images from the Internet to Fotki albums. Say, your relatives placed photos you are interested in somewhere on the web; and you want to have some of them in your Fotki albums. Or, a dozen of your friends came to your birthday party with their digital cameras - why not to create a common album with the photos they made?
With Fotki Upload Bookmarklet Fetcher, no need first to save the desired images on your hard drive and only then to upload them to albums. You don't need to know images' URLs: you can fetch at once what you see. Important! Fotki Bookmarklet Fetcher was developed for Mozilla, Firefox and Opera browsers. Safari and Internet Explorer are not supported yet. top7.5.6.1 Adding Fotki Upload Bookmarklet to Bookmarks To do that:
Both ways of adding link work with Windows and Linux, and for Mac the second method is applicable. top7.5.6.2 Fetching Images Using Fotki Upload Bookmarklet Fetcher After a Fotki Upload Bookmarklet link has been added to your bookmarks, you can start fetching images:
7.5.7 Fetch from Another Internet Site If your photos are located on another Internet site and you know their URL address, you don't need to download them to your computer. Instead of that, you can copy them directly to Fotki from that site. JPEG format is recommended when using this method. To fetch photos from Internet:
7.5.8 via E-Mail To upload photos via e-mail, an e-mail address should be activated for the destination album first:
An e-mail address like YourUserName+SomeCode@fotki.com will be generated after clicking. Use it to directly upload digital images to the album this address is assigned to. The address can be regenerated or deactivated at any time. Assigning an e-mail address to each album is a separate procedure. Also, you can create a special album to email images to. top7.5.9 FTP Client FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Client is a fast and popular method of data exchange on the Internet. However, you need a special application installed on your computer to upload or download photos via FTP.
Once the program is installed, start it and create a new connection to Fotki FTP server: ftp.fotki.com Note: Fotki FTP server supports only 2 concurrent connections. Please make sure that your FTP client configured to establish max 2 connections at a time. top7.5.10 CompuPic
It visually browses photos, HTML, and files, selects multiple folders at once, views files of almost any format instantly and performs advanced batch conversions. CompuPic acquires pictures from any digital camera and uploads photos to popular online photo sharing sites, Fotki being among them. Its integrated e-mail makes it easy to send files to share them through photo sharing sites. top7.5.11 Spb Imageer for Pocket PC Devices This program is extremally useful and convenient for those working with images on Pocket PC, especially when they are travelling somewhere far from their places. Upon finding something very interesting, take pictures of it using your camera, insert a storage card to your Pocket PC with a wireless connection, and tap "Publish to Web". All but instantly your photos are online and you can send the link to your friends by e-mail or SMS. Spb Imageer has the "Publish to Web" wizard to post your photos to the web at Fotki.com. The wisard will help you to resize your pictures, optimize their brightness and contrast and finally upload them to quickly share with your friends and family. See a sample album published using Spb Imageer at www.fotki.com top7.5.12 One at a Time It is the simplest and most reliable method. Using it gets tiresome if you have a significant number of photos to upload, but if all other methods fail, you will never go wrong with this one. To upload one photo at a time:
7.5.13 Pictavision (via Camera Phone) Pictavision is the easiest way to take the videos and pictures from your camera phone and upload them to your Fotki account! With a few simple clicks, Pictavision connects your camera phone to your account enabling you to preserve your digital memories online and at the same time freeing up your phone’s memory. Monthly subscription applies. Pictavision User Guide top7.5.14 Eye-Fi card
7.6 Downloading Albums from Fotki Back to Computer What to do if your hard disk was broken and you want to download full albums from your Fotki back to your computer? 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. top7.7 Sharing Photos Sharing is enjoying something jointly with others. At Fotki, you can easily share your photos with the people you like. Fotki features a variety of effective tools to assist you in sharing your photos with your friends and relatives. It is assumed that at this point you already have your photos organized the way you want. top7.7.1 Video Tutorial: Sharing
Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the Video Tutorial for the Fotki community. top7.7.2 "Private Home" vs "Public Home" There are two main folders on the "Photo Albums" page of your Fotki account: "Public Home" folder and "Private Home" folder. Both can contain any number of (sub)folders and albums. It is your choice whether some folder or album should be in the "Public Home" or in the "Private Home" folder. You can place a folder or an album into either "Public Home" or "Private Home" when creating it and you can move any existing album and folder between private and public sections of your account when necessary. The key distinction of the Private Home is that its folders and albums can be visible only to you and if only you are logged in. You can view them by clicking on the "Private Home" link in the Folder Tree next to the Member Panel. When not logged in to your own Fotki account or when visiting someone else's Fotki pages, you won't even see the "Private Home" link. As for the Public Home folders and albums, there exist a few options:
If public access to the albums and folders of your "Public Home" folder is allowed and they are not password-protected, they are available for viewing:
To make any folder or album of your "Public Home" folder available to no one but the people you choose, you have to use passwords. Only those to whom you give your URL and album/folder password can access a password-protected item. top7.7.3 Protecting Abum or Folder with a Password To set a desired level of security, use passwords. This allows you to choose, who can view a sertain album or folder. Passwords are only applied to the contents of the "Public Home", since "Private Home" is invisible to outsiders. To protect an album with a password, go to the "Album Properties" form, which is reachable by two ways:
In the "Album Properties" form, fill in the "Access Password:" field and save changes. Send this password and your URL to your relatives and friends. To protect a folder with a password, go to the "Folder Properties" form, which is reachable by two ways:
In the "Folder Properties" form, fill in "Folder Password:" field and click "Change" button beneath. Send this password and your URL to your relatives and friends. In a password-protected folder, all of its subfolders and albums are protected. That is why there is no need to protect the albums of this folder with individual passwords. top7.7.4 Sharing a Folder Sharing a folder with someone allows that person to view the shared folder anytime without visiting your personal Fotki pages. Important! Before setting sharing, make sure you have at least one Friend in your "Friend List". To set sharing for a certain folder, go to the "Sharing for Folder" form, which is reachable by two ways:
In the "Sharing for Folder" form, choose the Friends you like to share this folder with in the list of your Friends and click the checkboxes next to their names. Click "Save" when done. The shared folder gets a modified icon being displayed with a hand holding it. top7.7.5 Inviting Others to View Your Photos After you have created and organized your photos, you can invite your friends and relatives to take a look at them. Of course, they have to know where to go, in other words, they have to know the URL to your Fotki "Public Home", which looks like that: http://public.fotki.com/YourUserName Anyone typing this URL into his/her browser's address bar will get to your personal Fotki pages. If any of your albums or folders are password-protected and you want to share them with your friends, send them the passwords, too. top7.7.6 Searching for Fotki Members With ever growing number of members and, literally, innumerable photos, Fotki is a great place to explore! There exist effective and fun-filled ways to surf Fotki that will take you far beyond mere photosharing. One of them is using the Fotki search engine. Get ready for surprises, you never know what awaits you. top7.7.6.1 Searching by a Keyword To start with, you need a keyword. It can be a name, a place or just something you are curious about. For example, if you love cats, use 'cats' as a keyword. To make a search using this keyword:
7.7.6.2 Public Members' Directory Fotki Public Members' Directory is the list of those Fotki members, who have chosen to be included in it. Since the entire member list is extremally long, you can substantially reduce it by specifying a search category. Once you do that, you will only see those members, who belong to the category of your interest. You can browse the Public Members Directory by country, registration date, camera model, interest or by popularity. Browsing by country brings you to a list of countries, where the number of members living in each country is specified. To open the member list for a particular country, click on the country name and you will find the list of all Fotki members living there. Browsing by registration date gives you the list of 36 newest Fotki Members. Browsing by camera model shows you the list of digital camera models and the number of Fotki members using each model. Clicking on the model you are interested in displays the list of the Fotki members using this model. Browsing by interest gives you opportunity to find Fotki members with similar interests, because every Fotki member can list their interests on the About Me page. To browse by any of the listed categories:
You can visit Fotki Pages of any of these members by clicking on their names or thumbnails. top8. Co-Branding With co-branding, you have the ability:
This is particularly useful when you have your own personal or business website. Your albums will be hosted on our web servers but the pages will appear to be an integral part of your website. However, even if you have no any other site, you can change your Fotki pages look and feel just for fun. Important! Our co-branding feature is only available to Premium Fotki Members. To encourage even those Fotki members not knowing HTML to have more fun when using Fotki, our co-branding feature suggests ready-to-use skins. Fotki members, who are skinning their co-branded pages, are welcome to send us their own versions to be both displayed and put into the common style list. Each skin added to the list will bear its developer's name. If you have any questions or face some difficulties at any stage of co-branding, feel free to contact us for help. Also, get in touch with us if you would like to discuss your specific co-branding problems. top8.1 Your Sub-Domain Name To have an opportunity of using co-branding, each Premium Fotki member is provided with a sub-domain name - a direct address that people will type into the address bar to find his/her site. It is a simple URL like http://UserName.fotki.com/. Fotki co-branding is convenient:
There are no minimum user requirements for co-branding on Fotki. You can create a page of your own with no previous computer experience. Go to http://YourUserName.fotki.com/ and you will find yourself on your homepage with Fotki right now! Send the above URL to your friends by email and post it on your "Welcome" page, in your Guest Book and Journal, etc. and your friends and family will be able to visit it at any time. top8.2 Applying Ready-to-Use Skins There exist a set of ready-to-use skins on Fotki. If you have not pre-set any of them for your co-branded pages, a basic (default) skin will be automatically applied to these pages. You can either keep the basic design or customize their graphical appearance by selecting a ready-to-use skin. To do it:
8.3 Customizing Co-Branded Pages With co-branding you can apply your own design to both your homepage with Fotki and your web pages displaying your photos placed on Fotki. Add your own text, buttons, links, or other customized content to every page. Create your own unique headers, footers, navigation menus - you say what! To make such changes, some special knowledge is preferred. If you choose to do the coding yourself, you will have to acquaint yourself with HTML, a special computer language for designing web pages that web browsers read. It is quite easy to learn; the basic code is remarkably easy and basic HTML skills can be acquired in a few short hours if not minutes. To begin with, visit W3Schools. On this site, HTML tutorial and Web Building tutorial will teach you all the fundamental techniques you'll need to build yourself a personal website. A tutorial on CSS (CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets) will instruct you how to add style sheet declarations to fine-tune the presentation of your pages and to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. Experienced users can find out more about CSS at Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Specification. Next, a HTML editor of the WYSIWYG-type (WYSIWYG is short for "What You See Is What You Get") will be extremely handy for a tyro. Such is the "Composer", a free HTML editor included into the "Mozilla Suite". It has improved CSS support and enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when your web page will be viewed over Internet. To apply advanced changes:
8.3.1 Handling ##content## Tag For you to better understand what is "##content## tag" here and which way it can be combined with your own HTML code, we should elucidate that our co-branding engine generates a HTML code containing your data depending on the address opened by a visitor, in other words, depending on the page he or she wants to go to. There exists a certain address (more precisely, a prefix to an address), for each our service: photo-service, comments, guest book, journals, etc. Such are:
In each separate case, a ##content## tag will correspond to a certain HTML page produced by our co-branding engine. What are you to do about this tag? Say, you want to put a banner headline at your page's top, to add a navigation menu to the left or to the right, to append the bottom headline, etc., etc. To start with, you should place the co-branded part of your HTML page (read: a ##content## tag) into a table cell inside the HTML file. top8.4 Some Fine Examples of Co-Branding To better understand what co-branding does and how it works, take a look at some Fotki members' personal pages, in which they skillfully utilize this feature: 9. Selling Photo Prints Fotki users with "Business" membership can sell prints of own photos at custom prices. As a seller you:
Once you have uploaded your photos to Fotki and set their prices, Fotki:
The 15% commission fee applies after the printing cost is subtracted from the price you set. For example, if your price is $1.00 and the standard price is 9c, your customer pays $1.00 instead of 9c he would normally pay. Thus, the extra 91c he overpays is your net revenue which is subject to the commission fee. In this case, the commission fee will be 13.65c and the rest 77.35c is yours to keep. The shipping cost and local taxes (if applicable) are not taken into consideration; they are entirely your customer's responsibility. No extra charge for storing your photos at Fotki is needed: as a Business member you have 1TB of storage space. The revenue from sold photos is paid through PayPal, WebMoney or bank transfer. If you are a Trial Fotki member, first upgrade your account to "Business" membership. top9.1 Video Tutorial: Selling
Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the Video Tutorial for the Fotki community. top9.2 Setting Up an Account for Selling Photos To set up your account for selling photos:
Congratulations! You are now ready to start selling photos on Fotki. top9.3 Setting Custom Prices for Your Photos You can set custom prices for:
To set custom prices:
Fill in your prices for the print formats you want to be available to your customers and save changes. Make sure you use the right money format: dollars should be separated from cents with a dot. Important! You don't have to fill out the entire form, just left blank the fields for print formats that you are not going to enable. To figure out the maximum recommended print format for photo you can set prices for, divide each of the two pixel dimensions of this digital image by 100. top9.4 Changing Custom Prices To change custom prices for any folder/subfolder/album/photo:
9.5 Protecting Your Photos Since you have started selling your photos on Fotki, you obviously want other people neither to download your high-quality originals without paying nor to order the prints of your photos at regular Fotki prices. That is why, as soon as custom prices have been set for a particular album, the "Allow Downloading of Originals" and "Allow Printing of Photos" preferences will be automatically disabled for these albums. After that, your visitors will not find common "order print" and "Get Original Uploaded Photo" links next to your photos. top9.6 Printing Resolution You can keep resized photos in your albums for viewing purposes and upload originals only when needed. In such a case, if the pixel size of a photo ordered is not sufficient to provide a decent level of quality, you will be asked to upload a full-size file. To automate the process, it's reasonable to upload original images. Minimum resolution for printing your photos with sufficient quality is set through the "Selling" section of "My Account":
9.7 Stopping Selling To stop selling photos at custom prices from a particular album, open the album in thumbnail mode, go to the Photo selling | Setting custom prices page, choose the "Disable selling" button and save changes. top9.8 Photographer's Administrative Area Since you have started selling photos on Fotki, you get your personal "Photographer's Administrative Area" page. On that page you can track your sales and payment history, select payment method and view your current balance details. top9.8.1 Sales History
In this section, the details of each order can be viewed:
To see all the information about a certain order, click on the corresponding "order details" link. top9.8.2 Request Payment This section is for selecting a payment method. Currently, three ways of payment are available:
* Important! Your PayPal account should be verified. Until there is no money earned, all of the radio buttons in the "Select Payment Method:" form are disabled. top9.8.3 Balance In this section, you will find a table summarizing:
10. Online Journals Your online journal (also called 'weblog' or 'blog') is a dated sequence of entries. Creating and updating your journal online is easy; you can publish your entry anytime you feel like it. Unlike a written diary, an online journal can include links to your favorite websites, photos, graphics, and even animation. Also, you can make it public or private. Important! Keeping online journals is available to Premium Fotki Members only. top10.1 Starting a Journal To start your own personal journal:
10.2 Editing a Journal Editing a journal allows changing its URL name, title, description, and auto-formatting and security settings. To edit a journal:
10.3 Deleting a Journal If you no longer need one of your Fotki journals, you can delete it:
10.4 Entries Having entries in a journal is a whole point of keeping it. top10.4.1 Adding Entries To add an entry to your journal:
10.4.1.1 Setting Date and Time Every time you create or edit an entry, you can set or change the date and time to be displayed on the top of your entry. Date and time can be switched off. The time displayed by default is your local current time. When you read someone's fresh entry, the time you see above it is the author's local time and the modifier in parentheses is the difference between that time and the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). The difference between yours and that person's time will be the value of his/her modifier minus the value of your modifier. top10.4.1.2 Including Links into the Entry Your journal can contain direct links to your favorite websites so that any person reading your journal can go there at once. This can be done through a simple HTML command.
Put any other URL instead of "http://www.fotki.com" and your visitor will get to that site. top10.4.1.3 Posting Pics in Your Journal You can add a picture to your entry only if this picture actually exists and is stored somewhere on a publicaly available server. Example I:
The address in quotes ("http://...jpg") is the URL to the picture you are posting. It will be different for your picture. The align="..." command is not necessary. You can play with different alignments (top, bottom, left, right) to see what they do. More information on how to customize your images and text can be found on various HTML sites including this one. To activate your picture so that clicking on it will take the clicker somewhere else, you have to use two commands. Example II:
In this case, you have to insert two addresses:
Both may differ from those given in our example. top10.4.1.4 Privacy Settings Choose who is allowed to read the entry, read its comments, and write comments to it: anybody, Fotki members only, your Fiends only, nobody but you. It is possible to set privacy preferences separately for each entry, or save them once and use the pattern saved as a default one for all future entries. The settings can be changed every time you create or edit an entry. To change your privacy settings:
You can also change privacy settings for your entire journal by clicking "Edit" under the journal's title. top10.4.2 Editing an Entry To edit an entry:
10.4.3 Deleting an Entry To delete an entry, when logged in click "Delete" next to the entry to be deleted, then confirm it by clicking "OK". All the comments to that entry will be deleted as well. top10.5 Categories Putting your journal entries into categories is a good way to better organize them. By assigning a category to an entry you give a "label" to it. When a number of entries in your journal is large, categories can be very helpful. Clicking on a category opens the list of all the entries belonging to it, and due to that finding the entry is much easier. To make it even easier, you can simultaneously put an entry into several categories. top10.5.1 Managing Journal's Categories Creating a category:
Editing a category means changing its name or URL address:
Deleting a category will uncategorize all the entries belonging to it. To do it:
10.5.2 Categorization of Entries To assign a category to an entry:
To reassign categories to an entry or to completely "uncategorize" it:
10.6 Viewing Jurnals of Other Fotki Members To view a journal of a Fotki member:
If the person has a few journals, you will see the list of their titles. Click on the title of the journal you want to view. top10.7 Commenting Entries Important!
To leave a comment to an entry, click "Post a Comment" next to the entry, type a comment into the "Post a Comment": text area and submit it. top10.7.1 Managing Comments You can edit comments only to your own entries and when logged in. To do it, click "Edit" next to the comment to be edited, make corrections in the text area provided and submit them. To reply to a comment, click "Reply" next to the comment, type your reply into the text area provided and submit it. You can only delete a comment in your own journal and when logged in. To do it, click "Delete" next to the comment and confirm your intention by clicking "OK". If the comment to be removed has any replies, the whole thread will be deleted. top11. Fotki Email When signing up for a Fotki account, you get your own email address on Fotki. Fotki's built-in email browser allows its members viewing, sending, forwarding and managing their email messages. top11.1 Checking Email When logged in, you see an "Email" link in the initial line on the top right of any of your Fotki pages. If there are any new messages in your Inbox, the above link will be followed by a reminder informing you about the number of unread messages. To check your Fotki email, go to your "Email" page. You will get into your "Inbox" folder displaying a list of the messages received. Those unread are nighlighted and their return addresses and titles are written in bold letters. If a new message comes in while you are viewing your Inbox, it will not be displayed until the page is reloaded. To check if you have any new messages, click "Check Mail" in the Email Menu. top11.2 Reading a Message To read an email message:
11.3 Saving Sender's Address To store senders' email addresses, save them in the Fotki Address Book:
11.4 Writing a Message To write an email message using your Fotki email browser:
11.4.1 Choosing Recipient from Address Book To copy a recipient's address from your address book directly to your address field when writing a message:
11.4.2 Sending Attachments with Message To send some file along with an email message, you have to attach it. Attachments can be of any type: text, media, program, etc. Usually, they greatly increase the capability of email, while most email browsers are primarily designed to accept text. To send an attachment along with your email message:
11.4.3 Saving an Unfinished Message If you have started writing a message and intend to complete it later, you can save its draft in a special "Drafts" folder. To save a draft of an unfinished email message, click "Save Draft" in the "Compose New Message" form. From the confirmation screen you can go to your "Inbox" or to the "Drafts" folder. top11.4.4 Completing an Unfinished Message To finish a message saved as a draft:
11.4.5 Saving a Sent Message To save a message before sending, click in the "Save message in Sent Folder" checkbox under the "Attachments" button in the "Compose New Message" form, then proceed with writing and sending your message as usual. After you have sent your message, its copy remains in your "Sent" folder. top11.5 Replying to a Message Basically, replying to a message is the same as composing a new one. The only difference is the lack of need to specify the recipient's email address, for it is placed automatically, as well as a title. For example, if the original message was entitled "hello", the reply title is "Re: hello". To reply to a message:
11.6 Forwarding a Message To transmit a received message to your friends, do it through forwarding:
11.7 Viewing Sent Messages Important! The "Sent" folder contains only those messages having been saved before sending. So, if you want to be able to view them later, make sure you have done it. To view sent messages:
To send a saved message to someone else, click "Forward" in the Message Menu. top11.8 Managing Email Folders On the "Manage Folders" page, the common statistics for your Fotki email account (a number of messages per folder and each folder size) is presented. Also, on this page you can create your own email folders in addition to the four system ones ("Inbox", "Drafts", "Sent" and "Deleted"). The folders created (but not the system ones!) can be renamed or deleted.
11.9 Moving Messages to Another Email Folder To move any of your email messages from some email folder to another one:
11.10 Deleting Messages To delete a message:
11.10.1 Recovering Deleted Messages The messages deleted do not disappear. They are kept in the "Deleted" folder and may be automaticaly erased only if your email account reaches the space limit. To recover a deleted message:
11.11 Fighting Spam 'Spam mail' (also known as 'junk mail') usually means unwanted solicitation and advertisement email messages. Mostly, they are thrown away unread, but even so, cleaning up an inbox can be very time-consuming. That is why spam is to be forestalled. Email providers offer various tools for "filtering" incoming mail. Though not guaranteeing absolute efficiency, they can make your life much easier. Another way to fight spam is taking the privacy protection into one's own hands. If you do not want your email address to suddenly pop up on some third-party mailing list, don't give it to the people you don't trust. In case you post your email address on an online forum or give it away in a chat room, there is a good chance it will be abused. Here are some more tips on fighting spam:
11.11.1 Using the Spam Filter To make fighting spam easier, we have implemented a spam filter that automatically detects incoming spam in your Fotki mailbox and moves it to the "Spam" folder. The spam filter has 20 sensitivity levels, from 1 (the lowest) to 20 (the highest). Also, it can be turned off completely. To change your spam filter settings:
To completely disable the spam filter:
Save changes. top11.12 Setting Up an Email Client An email client is a program, which helps you better send, receive and manage your email messages. You can set up an email client on your computer to use it with your Fotki email. To set up an Outlook Express account:
12. Address Book Basically, an address book is a database of names and addresses, a means to keep records about people and companies. Each address book record (headed with contact's name) usually includes a number of contact details: mailing address, telephone number mobile phone number, fax number, email address, website URL, birthday date, etc. Details are normally stored in alphabetical order of people's names. Your Fotki Address Book is a software designed to hold every piece of information you would ever wish to record. The address book is easy to use both by itself and in connection with your Fotki email account. top12.1 Starting Address Book and Adding/Editing a Contact To start your Fotki Address Book, you should add at least one contact to it. To do that:
To add a new contact to your address-book contact list:
To edit an existing contact in your Fotki Address Book:
12.1.1 "New/Add/Edit Contact" Form Actually, all the three forms are the same. The form has a few sections.
12.1.1.1 Nickname You may assign a contact a nickname. It will be a contact is assigned a certain nickname, when viewing this contact's page in your address book you will see there all the photos whose tags are the same as this nickname. top12.2 Viewing Your Address Book To view your address-book entries (contacts), make sure you are logged in and go to the "Address Book" page. Each entry displayed in the contact list includes:
To view complete information on a person, click on his/her name in the "Name" column and you will get to the "View Contact" screen. To go back to the entry list, click "Return" on the page bottom or "Browse Contacts" in the Address Book Menu. In case your address book contains numerous entries, viewing them by index is easier than scrolling up and down the list. There is an index string (a list of letters given in the alphabetic order) on the top of your address-book contact list. By clicking on a hyperlinked letter, you open the list of all the people, whose last names start with that letter. To view the complete list of contacts, click "All" in the beginning of the alphabet string. Also, searching for a contact may be faster than scrolling up and down the full contact list. To search for a contact, type a name, a piece of a name or even one letter into the "Search" field above the index string and click the "Search" button. All the entries containing the specified string will be displayed. top12.2.1 Complete Information
12.3 Importing a Contact If you have an address-book file exported from your email application or from another mail server and saved on your computer, you can upload it to Fotki Address Book to further use this information. To do it:
If you want to import an address-book file to use it on Fotki, first export it from your current email application and save on your computer as an *.csv file. For export details, see the help file on the site hosting your existing address book or in your current email application, since each email client has a different interface. top12.3.1 Exporting an Address-Book File from Outlook Express To export an address-book file from Outlook Express:
Since that moment you have your address-book file saved on your computer and it is ready to be imported into your Fotki mail account. top12.4 Exporting a Contact You can use your Fotki address book on another website or in another email browser. For that purpose, you have to export it:
12.5 Deleting a Contact To delete a contact:
13. Personal Pages Your personal pages are listed in your Member Panel. They are: Welcome, About Me, My Links, Photo Albums, My FotkiMap, What's New, My Photo Tags, Comments, My Videos, My Guest Book, My Journals, and My Forums. Only Private Albums are not available to outside viewers. What's New, Comments, Photo Tags, FotkiMap, Guest Book and Journals sections are updated automatically as you add new albums, tag and geotag photos and albums, get new comments on your photos, videos and journal entries, get new messages in your guest book and replies in your forums. Welcome, About Me and Links sections can be edited by you. top13.1 Welcome Page Your Welcome page is your greeting to a visitor. To edit it:
13.2 About Me Page (Profile) Your About Me page is your profile, where you may show anything you want to tell about yourself and place your avatar which will be seen next to your DisplayName everywhere on Fotki. To fill in your profile, make sure you are logged in, open your About Me page and click the Edit profile button. Select the appropriate profile type: Personal, Family, Couple, Group, Animal or Organization. top13.2.1 Profile Types Depending on the profile type, the profile sections differ in number and details:
General Information:
Contact Information: give your email, personal website URL, and AOL IM, Yahoo! ID, ICQ UIN, MSN username, Google Talk, Skype, Jabber ID, QQ and Gadu-Gadu usernames or numbers if you use any of those services so that other Fotki members can contact you. My Cities: specify your current location, hometown, birthplace and other places you lived in. Background & Lifestyle: select the appropriate lines from the drop-down lists for Marital status, Sexual orientation, Smoking, Drinking, Children, Education, Ethnicity, Origin, Body type, Height, Income and Religion. Interests & Personality: tell about your interests and favorite sports, music, movies, TV programs, heroes and books. Many of your fellow Fotki members might have the same interests as you. Telling people of your hobbies will help you find friends on Fotki. top14. My Account/Our Account Your public and private information, and your default account settings can be viewed and changed through your "My Account/Our Account" page. Your email for the Fotki team to contact you is also stored there. On this page, you can upgrade your account, update your public profile and account information, and change the default settings. To view and/or change any stored info and/or default settings:
14.1 Public Profile "Public Profile" section:
Any part of your account information can be changed any time. top14.1.1 How to Change/Remove an Avatar? How to select a new avatar? How to remove an avatar? Please note!
14.1.2 How to Edit Profile? First select your Profile Type (Personal, Family, Couple, Group, Animal, Organization or Store), and than fill out your Profile. Depending on the profile type, profile sections differ in their number and details, but all the profiles have these sections: General Information:
Contact Information: give your email, personal website URL, and AOL IM, Yahoo! ID, ICQ UIN, MSN username, Google Talk, Skype, Jabber ID, QQ and Gadu-Gadu usernames or numbers if you use any of those services so that other Fotki members can contact you. My Cities/Our Location: specify your current location, hometown, birthplace and other places you lived in. Describe yourself in: Background & Lifestyle: select the appropriate lines from the drop-down lists for Marital status, Sexual orientation, Smoking, Drinking, Children, Education, Ethnicity, Origin, Body type, Height, Income and Religion. Interests & Personality: List all your interests, separated by commas, to allow other users to find the matching details. Ttell about your interests and favorite sports, music, movies, TV programs, heroes and books. Many of your fellow Fotki members might have the same interests as you. Telling people of your hobbies will help you find friends on Fotki. top14.2 Account Information for Premium Account This section includes:
Through Account Information section you can:
14.2.1 How to Renew Your Premium Account?
14.2.2 How to Change/Add Email? Make sure you are logged in, go to "My Account/Our Account" page, find "Account Information" section and click "Change email". On "Add/Change Email" page, you can:
Important! None of these addresses will be published by us on the Web. To show your email address on your "About Me/About Us" page, please specify this address in the "Contact Info" section of your Profile. top14.2.3 How to Change Password?
14.2.4 Closing Account Before closing your account, make sure it is absolutely necessary. Please, exercise extreme caution. Keep backup copies of your most important image files on your computer. Important! When closing your Fotki account, all its content (photos, photo comments, photo albums, guest book messages, emails, etc.) will be PERMANENTLY deleted and will not be recoverable. To close your Fotki account:
14.3 Account Information for Free Account This section includes:
Through Account Information section you can:
14.3.1 How to Upgrade Your Free Account?
14.3.2 How to Change/Add Email? Make sure you are logged in, go to "My Account/Our Account" page, find "Account Information" section and click "Change email". On "Add/Change Email" page, you can:
Important! None of these addresses will be published by us on the Web. To show your email address on your "About Me/About Us" page, please specify this address in the "Contact Info" section of your Profile. top14.3.3 How to Change Password?
14.3.4 Closing Account Before closing your account, make sure it is absolutely necessary. Please, exercise extreme caution. Keep backup copies of your most important image files on your computer. Important! When closing your Fotki account, all its content (photos, photo comments, photo albums, guest book messages, emails, etc.) will be PERMANENTLY deleted and will not be recoverable. To close your Fotki account:
14.4 Settings Through this section you can select settings for all Fotki tools and features: top14.4.1 Privacy Options In the "Privacy Options" section, you can set security level for your "Public Home". (Important: Your "Private Home" cannot be affected.) Fotki search engine: If you enable Fotki search engine, Fotki users will be able to search for you by your Display Name, and for your photos, albums, folders, photo comments and guest book by keywords. Other search engines: This option allows/prevents from indexing your public albums by search engines (Google, AltaVista, etc.). Because of the way search engines work, changing this option does not affect their search results immediately and depends on a particular search engine. Include me in Fotki ratings: If you allow it, you will be seen in the lists of Fotki members generated by various categories (country, date registered, camera model, etc.) and in the list of 100 most active and most visited members. Show me in the Random Photos: Random photos from your public albums (new and updated ones) can be shown on the Fotki Community Page. Visitors' IP logging: If set to "Yes", saves IP addresses of your visitors when they add comments or post entries anywhere on your account. IP-logging notification will be displayed to a visitor when he adds comments or posts entries. Show me in Guest Lists: This option simultaneously makes you visible/invisible in others' guest lists and enables/disables your own My Guests/Our Guests page. To change (disable/enable) the above settings:
Enable "Contact Me" page: You can select, who is allowed to send you messages through your Contact Me/contact Us page: anybody, only Fotki members, only those from your Friendlist, or completely disable this page. top 14.4.2 General In the "General" subsection of the "Settings" section, time and date, as well as daily traffic limit options are listed. To change your general settings:
General settings are as follows:
14.4.2.1 Daily Bandwidth Limit Due to our distributed architecture, network abuses (excessive use) are difficult to track down or eliminate. To prevent service outages, a daily bandwidth is limited to 110 Mbytes for Free Members and to 2000 Mbytes for Premium Members. After daily traffic limit is achieved by any account, it will be blocked until 12 p.m. of the current day. During this period, it will be available only to its owner. In fact, extremely small number of accounts (literally a few) can be affected by the bandwidth narrowing. top14.4.3 Appearance You can customize the look and feel of your personal Fotki pages in the "Appearance" section. You can:
Important! This feature is only available to Premium Fotki Members. For free Fotki accounts only the first five schemes are available and their customization is disabled. top14.4.3.1 How to Select a Color Scheme/Skin?
14.4.3.2 How to Modify a Color Scheme?
14.4.3.3 How to Edit a Custom Color Scheme?
14.4.4 Web Email In the "Web Email" subsection of the "Settings" section of the "My Account" page, settings applied to your email account on Fotki are listed.
To change your email settings:
14.4.5 Guest Book You can either set various security levels for your public guest book or disable its usage. Choose who can use it:
To change your guest book settings:
14.4.6 Co-Branding With co-branding, you have the ability:
This is particularly useful when you have your own personal or business website. Your albums will be hosted on our web servers but the pages will appear to be an integral part of your website. However, even if you have no any other site, you can change your Fotki pages look and feel just for fun. Important! Our co-branding feature is only available to Premium Fotki Members. To encourage even those Fotki members not knowing HTML to have more fun when using Fotki, our co-branding feature suggests ready-to-use skins. Fotki members, who are skinning their co-branded pages, are welcome to send us their own versions to be both displayed and put into the common style list. Each skin added to the list will bear its developer's name. If you have any questions or face some difficulties at any stage of co-branding, feel free to contact us for help. Also, get in touch with us if you would like to discuss your specific co-branding problems. top14.4.6.1 Your Sub-Domain Name To have an opportunity of using co-branding, each Premium Fotki member is provided with a sub-domain name - a direct address that people will type into the address bar to find his/her site. It is a simple URL like http://UserName.fotki.com/. You can either use this one or register your own domain name and associate it with your account like SomeName.com or photos.SomeName.com. Fotki co-branding is convenient:
There are no minimum user requirements for co-branding on Fotki. You can create a page of your own with no previous computer experience. Go to http://YourUserName.fotki.com/ and you will find yourself on your homepage with Fotki right now! Send the above URL to your friends by email and post it on your "Welcome" page, in your Guest Book and Journal, etc. and your friends and family will be able to visit it at any time. top14.4.6.2 Applying Ready-to-Use Skins There exist a set of ready-to-use skins on Fotki. If you have not pre-set any of them for your co-branded pages, a basic (default) skin will be automatically applied to these pages. You can either keep the basic design or customize their graphical appearance by selecting a ready-to-use skin. To do it:
14.4.6.3 Customizing Co-Branded Pages With co-branding you can apply your own design to both your homepage with Fotki and your web pages displaying your photos placed on Fotki. Add your own text, buttons, links, or other customized content to every page. Create your own unique headers, footers, navigation menus - you say what! To make such changes, some special knowledge is preferred. If you choose to do the coding yourself, you will have to acquaint yourself with HTML, a special computer language for designing web pages that web browsers read. It is quite easy to learn; the basic code is remarkably easy and basic HTML skills can be acquired in a few short hours if not minutes. To begin with, visit W3Schools. On this site, HTML tutorial and Web Building tutorial will teach you all the fundamental techniques you'll need to build yourself a personal website. A tutorial on CSS (CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets) will instruct you how to add style sheet declarations to fine-tune the presentation of your pages and to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. Experienced users can find out more about CSS at Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Specification. Next, a HTML editor of the WYSIWYG-type (WYSIWYG is short for "What You See Is What You Get") will be extremely handy for a tyro. Such is the "Composer", a free HTML editor included into the "Mozilla Suite". It has improved CSS support and enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when your web page will be viewed over Internet. To apply advanced changes:
14.4.6.3.1 Handling ##content## Tag For you to better understand what is "##content## tag" here and which way it can be combined with your own HTML code, we should elucidate that our co-branding engine generates a HTML code containing your data depending on the address opened by a visitor, in other words, depending on the page he or she wants to go to. There exists a certain address (more precisely, a prefix to an address), for each our service: photo-service, comments, guest book, journals, etc. Such are:
In each separate case, a ##content## tag will correspond to a certain HTML page produced by our co-branding engine. What are you to do about this tag? Say, you want to put a banner headline at your page's top, to add a navigation menu to the left or to the right, to append the bottom headline, etc., etc. To start with, you should place the co-branded part of your HTML page (read: a ##content## tag) into a table cell inside the HTML file. top14.4.6.4 Some Fine Examples of Co-Branding To better understand what co-branding does and how it works, take a look at some Fotki members' personal pages, in which they skillfully utilize this feature: top14.4.7 Folders Normally, albums/subfolders are added to the parent folders in the order you create them. In the "Folders" subsection you can change the way of sorting albums and subfolders in folders, and the way of displaying the Folder Tree. The Folder Tree, a graphic representation of your account structure, is seen to the left of the viewing window. If not, click on the splitter - a narrow vertical bar to enable the Folder Tree. Basically, it shows folders and subfolders but does not show albums. To change "Folders" subsection settings:
To set a different way of sorting or displaying the Folder Tree for a particular folder, do it through the "Folder Properties" edit form. top14.4.7.1 Albums in Folders Albums in folders can be sorted by the date of creation, date of last update, date they were taken and by name. Sorting is done either in ascending or in descending order. For example, ascending-order arrangement by date moves older albums/subfolders to the top and newer ones to the bottom of the list; ascending-order arrangement by name puts the album/subfolder whose name starts with "A" on the top and that with "Z" on the bottom. top14.4.7.2 Subfolders in folders Subfolders in folders can be sorted by create or update date and by name. top14.4.7.3 Show Folder Tree By default, Folder Tree is automatically enabled on your public page. Consider, whether you want the Folder Tree to be seen to everybody or just to yourself, or to be disabled and choose the option from the dropdown list. top14.4.7.4 Show Albums in Foder Tree You can choose whether only folders and subfolders or the entire structure including albums will be visible in the Folder Tree. top14.4.8 Albums In the "Albums" subsection of the "Settings" section of the "My Account" page, default properties applied to all of your albums are set. At the same time, different options can be separately set for a particular album. It can be done through the "Album Properties" edit form, which is reachable from the Member Panel. In this case, the preferences chosen override the default ones. To change any of the default settings listed below:
The description of album settings is given below: top14.4.8.1 Album Thumbnail You can customize the thumbnails (or icons) of all your albums to your taste. A small picture representing an album in the folder view can be:
14.4.8.2 Allow to Leave Photo Comments Choose who is allowed to comment your photos:
14.4.8.3 Allow to View Photo Comments Choose who is allowed to view the existing comments:
14.4.8.4 Allow to View Album Size Choose who is allowed to view album size:
14.4.8.5 Hide Albums in Listing All the albums of your "Public Home" folder, both those open for viewing and password-protected ones, are seen in the Folder Tree, at least if "Show Albums in Folder Tree" preference is not disabled. But even in this case, the icons of both kinds of albums are seen when the folders to which these albums belong are open. For some reason you may want to make an album fully invisible, as if not existing. Say, you uploaded images but haven't put them in order yet, or you want some album to be known to strictly definite persons, to whom you will send its direct URL. A hidden album will be only visible:
You have an option to make any album invisible in listing. By default, this preference is disabled, but you can hide an album from:
14.4.8.6 Show Folder Tree in Album In an album view, the Folder Tree (a graphic representation of the list of folders and albums) can be either invisible or visible - if you want to know the exact location of the album. top14.4.8.7 Show Albums in Folder Tree Either only folders and subfolders or the entire structure including albums can be visible in the Folder Tree. top14.4.8.8 Photo View Style You can give your photo albums a new look and feel by setting a style for thumbnail and photo layout from a few ready-to-use border styles. Depending on the style chosen, your photos and thumbnails will be displayed with different borders. top14.4.8.9 Photo View Size You can choose various dimensions for full-size displaying photos from the dropdown menu. top14.4.8.10 Photos per Page To arrange icons of the photos in an album to your taste, set the number of thumbnails per row and the number of columns for the photo-thumbnail album view. top14.4.8.11 Allow Downloading of Originals Choose, who is allowed to download your originals:
Important! Downloading of originals is only available for Premium members. It does not apply for selling photos. top14.4.8.12 Show Basic Album Stats Album statistics includes the number of hits received by the album and the number of viewers having visited it. Information is displayed in the viewing window next to the album's thumbnail. You can choose who is allowed to see it:
14.4.8.13 Show When Album was Created and Modified The date when an album was created and last modified is typically displayed in the viewing window next to the album's thumbnail. Choose between enabling/disabling this option. top14.4.8.14 Allow Printing of Photos This option enables printing at standard rate; it does not apply for selling photos. Select who is allowed to order prints of your photos:
14.4.8.15 Show Camera Model Select who is allowed to see your camera model:
14.4.8.16 Slideshow Access Select who is allowed to have access to the slideshows of your photos:
Slideshow can be completely disabled as well. top14.4.8.17 Show Selling Photos Price List in: You can choose between scrolled and simple lists. top14.4.8.18 Copyright If all your albums will have the same copyright message, it would be reasonable to set a default copyright message, which will be automatically applied to all of the albums. It can be overridden for a particular album or photo at any time. top14.5 Saved Credit Card To make ordering easy and quick, we implemented "Shopping Carts". They provide total control over what and how you buy and allow tracking orders and saving shipping addresses and credit card info for the future use. Information submitted is encrypted via SSL protocol to ensure total secrecy. When ordering prints from Fotki for the first time, you provide your credit card information by filling out the "Credit Card" form. To save this information for future use, you have to check the box marked "Save this credit card for future use" on the bottom of the form and next time you only need to choose a credit card from those previously stored in the Fotki database. You can view your credit card info in the "Saved Credit Card" section of your "My Account" page and delete any of your credit cards saved. To do that:
14.6 Saved Shipping Addresses When ordering from Fotki, you provide your shipping address so that we know where we should send your order to. Saving the address in Fotki database for future use is safe and convenient, especially when you have a few ones. To save/add an address:
To edit any of your previously saved shipping addresses:
Important! If you have placed an order JUST BEFORE changing your shipping address, that order will be sent to the old address. Any orders placed AFTER changing the address will go to the new one. To delete any of your shipping addresses, click "Delete" next to the address to be removed and then "OK" in the confirmation window. top15. Communicating with Fotki Members On Fotki, the three most important tools facilitating communication between Fotki members are:
Detail email description you will find in the "Using Fotki Email" Help section. top15.1 Video Tutorial: Communication
Fotki thanks Fotki users VnP and Pike for creating the Video Tutorial for the Fotki community. top15.2 Photo Comments You can make your opinion known to the Fotki community by commenting the photos you like. Your comment together with other people's comments will be seen underneath the photo by every visitor. Important! If the owner either disabled or restricted the "Allow Photo Comments" option for a certain album or entire "Public Home", commenting his/her photos is either totally impossible or available to a certain group only. top15.2.1 Viewing Comments As photo comments are automatically displayed along with the photo, to which they belong, to view them, just view the photo and you will find all its comments underneath. To view the list of all the comments ever received by your photos, go to your Fotki pages and then to the "Comments" page. top15.2.2 Writing Comments When viewing other members' albums on their personal pages, the "Leave your Comment:" text area is displayed underneath the photo. When seeing random photos on the Fotki Community page, clicking on the thumbnail of a photo you wish to comment will bring you to the full-size photo view with "Leave your Comment:" text area underneath it.
15.2.3 Editing Comments You can edit only your own comments.
Make changes in the "Edit Your Comment:" text area and save them. top15.2.4 Deleting Comments You can delete only your own comments.
Click "OK" in the confirmation window if you do want to proceed. top15.2.5 Choosing Who Can Comment Your Photos Consider, who is allowed to comment your photos:
You can set this preference separately for particular albums or for the whole of your photo collection. In case you are about to lower the security level for this preference, you will get to the warning page asking you to confirm the change. If the security level will not be lowered, you will get directly to the change-confirmation screen. Click "Back to My Account" button to continue. top15.2.5.1 For a Particular Album To set this option for an individual album:
15.2.5.2 For the Entire Account To set this option for the whole account:
15.2.6 Choosing Who Can View Comments to Your Photos Consider, who is allowed to view comments to your photos:
You can set this preference separately for particular albums or for the whole of your photo collection. top15.2.6.1 For a Particular Album To set this option for an individual album:
15.2.6.2 For the Entire Account To set this option for the entire account:
15.3 Guest Book A guest book allows Fotki members to write messages to each another. Guest books work like answering machines: messages are collected and kept in them. It is up to the guest book's owner to check the messages and/or delete them. The owner can disallow certain groups of visitors to use his/her guest book. You can edit or delete your own messages in any guest book. top15.3.1 Viewing Guest Book To view the contents of your own guest book:
To view the contents of some other Fotki member's guest book:
15.3.2 Writing a Message You can write messages in other members' guest books (if they allow visitors to do that) or in your own one. top15.3.2.1 In Your Own Guest Book To write a message in your own guest book:
15.3.2.2 In Someone Else's Guest Book To write a message in someone else's guest book:
15.3.3 Editing a Message Important! You can edit only the messages written by you. To do it:
15.3.4 Deleting a Message Important!
To do it:
15.3.5 Limiting Access to Your Guest Book You can protect your guest book by setting various security levels. Consider, who is allowed to access it:
To change your guest book preferences:
16. Fotki Friends On Fotki, a "Friend" is a status assigned to a Fotki member by another one when marking him/her as a Friend. If you have marked any Fotki members as Friends, they will be displayed in your "My Friends" list. It is dynamic and changes every time you find a new Friend or break up with an old one. top16.1 Adding Friends to "My Friends" List Adding a Fotki member to "My Friends" list is possible by two ways:
16.2 Viewing "My Friends" List To view your "My Friends" list, make sure you are logged in and go to the "My Friends" page, where all your Fotki Friends are listed. To go to any of your Friends' public pages, click on his/her thumbnail or name. You can instantly get information on your Friend's updates or view his/her "About me" page by clicking "What's New" or "About Me" to the right of the Friend's thumbnail. top16.3 Viewing "I Am I Friend of" List If some Fotki members have added you to their "My Friends" lists, it is reflected in your "I Am a Friend of" list, where all of them are presented. Similar to the "My Friends" list, it is dynamic; it changes every time someone starts or stops considering you a Friend. To see a list of Fotki members having marked you as their Friend:
16.4 Sharing Folders with Friends You can make any of your public or private folders available to your Fotki Friend by explicitly specifying, which folders you want to share with him/her. To share/unshare your folders with a Friend:
16.5 Removing Names from "My Friends" List If you stop considering someone your Fotki Friend, it is possible to erase his/her name from your "My Friends" list. To do it:
17. Photo Contests Contests are held on a regular basis. Winners are selected by voting. Participation and voting are open to all Fotki members. Also, any Fotki member can suggest a theme for a contest or to sponsor a contest. To start viewing contests, click the Contests icon in the top navigation bar. The list of contests is arranged by their status as follows:
For each status, the nearest contest is on top. For more information, please read the Official Contest Rules. top17.1 Official Contest Rules
Additional Terms and Conditions
Disqualification A photo may be removed from the contest by the Contest Control Team, if:
Limitation of liability
17.2 Submitting a Photo To enter a photo contest:
Important! Only one photo per contest per member is accepted. top17.3 Modifying an Entry To modify an entry, go the Contests page and open "My Entries" section. You may just edit photo's title and/or description or replace the entry itself.
17.4 Withdrawing a Submission To withdraw a submitted photo:
17.5 Voting Voting starts immediately after submission has ended. After voting has ended, all the rates for each photo are summarized and one with the best score wins. Important! You can vote on each photo only once. top17.6 Suggesting or Sponsoring a Contest If you have a suggestion on what the theme of the next Fotki Contest could be, send it to Fotki. The most interesting ideas will be incorporated. If you want to offer a reward to the next contest's winner(s), contact Fotki and request sponsorship. To suggest a contest:
18. Virtual Gifts A nice picture with your own text that you may send to your friend or a total stranger on Fotki. Virtual gift will appear on Fotki user's avatar. top18.1 How to send a virtual gift?
19. Learn More about Fotki The key information about Fotki is summarized on the special "About Fotki" page. Here a short summary of Fotki's background, as well as of tools, features and services Fotki offers is presented. From this page, you can get to the "Fotki Blog", "Member Testimonials", "File a Complaint", and "Contact Us" pages.
19.1 Members' Testimonials Fotki receives hundreds of testimonials (short messages of appreciation) from its satisfied members every day. Some of them are published on our site. To read the testimonials submitted to Fotki, go to the "About Fotki" page and then to the Member Testimonials screen. You will find there all the testimonials published on the site. Click any page number either on the top or on the bottom of the screen to see the entries that didn't fit on the current page. Click on the name or on the thumbnail of a member to see his/her Public Home page. If you like your photo sharing experience on Fotki, why not tell others about it? To write your own testimonial on Fotki:
Please, keep in mind that by submitting this form you automatically authorize Fotki to use and edit your testimonial. top20. Getting Technical Support on Fotki You can get support on Fotki:
No matter which way you choose, our staff will be happy and eager to assist you. You can email to support@fotki.com. All messages are promptly answered by our skilled representatives. Do not hesitate to write to us regarding any issues you may have in mind. Our mailing address and support email address can be found on the "Contact Us" page, whose link is on any page bottom. top20.1 Customer Service In case you have any problem using Fotki you would like us to solve or a question you want to ask, submit an inquiry with our Customer Service. The Fotki team responds to customer inquiries in a very prompt fashion, so using this form is almost like talking to a live person. You can go to the "Customer Service" from any of your Fotki pages:
20.1.1 Creating an Inquiry When filling out the "New Inquiry" form, please try to provide as much information as you can. Information about your computer configuration can be very important in solving your problem.
20.1.2 Viewing Your "Inquiry History" If you have submitted inquiries in the past, you can see them all on the "Inquiry History" page. Click the "Back to Inquiry History" link on top of the "New Inquiry" form to see your inquiry history. Your inquiry history will show the ID number of each inquiry, its title, status, type and date it was created. To go back to the Customer Service "New Inquiry" form, click "[ Submit a New Inquiry ]" on the page top. top20.1.3 Adding a Message to an Inquiry To add something to what had been said in an inquiry or to respond back to the Fotki team after receiving their response, you can add a message to your inquiry:
20.1.4 Closing an Inquiry If the problem you inquired about has been solved or your question answered, or if you no longer have that problem, you can close the corresponding inquiry:
20.1.5 Reopening an Inquiry To reopen a closed inquiry:
20.2 Fotki "Contact Us" Form To ask a question about Fotki, its services, policies or prices, or to comment on how we are doing, you can use a simple "Contact Us" form. To get to it, either go to the "About Fotki" page and click "Contact Us" link on its top or just use the same link on the bottom of any of Fotki pages. Unlike the "Customer Service" form, this one is quite simple and short. Use it only if you have questions or comments. In case you have a problem you would like us to solve, please use the "Customer Service" form. top20.3 Filing a Complaint All cases of copyright infringement, unauthorized use of photos, offensive or abusive content or any use of our resources in a manner violating our "Terms of Service" agreement and any law or may otherwise deem inappropriate can be reported directly to Fotki administration via the "File a Complaint" form. We will investigate each case reported and attempt to resolve the conflict using all methods available to us. At that, please keep in mind that Fotki Inc. is an online service provider and cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage arising from the user's inability to use our service in an appropriate manner. All Fotki members are assumed to be familiar with Fotki's official policy as well. To report any of the violations outlined above:
Important! Please DO NOT use this form for technical problems, account management problems or general questions. If you are a member, address our Customer Service, otherwise use "Contact Us" form for that purpose. top21. Troubleshooting Tips Trying to track down and resolve technical problems on your computer is a frustrating experience. To help you do effective troubleshooting, we explain how to solve various problems you may have when using Fotki. This section is updated as we receive feedback from our members. Please let us know if you experience any problem, which is not covered here. top21.1 How to Correct Caching Settings for Internet Browsers? Incorrect Internet browser cache settings will often result in improper display of some Fotki pages, for example:
Any problem of that kind may result from the incorrect browser settings. To fix such problems, choose the right settings for your browser. top21.1.1 Internet Explorer When using Internet Explorer, you may need to correct two kinds of settings: cache settings and cookie settings. Both are important as they cause malfunction of your Fotki pages when set incorrectly. Often the wrong settings are used by default, so it is a good idea to check them. top21.1.1.1 IE Caching Settings
We recommend that you restart your browser to make sure the changes you've made are properly applied. top21.1.1.2 IE Cookie Settings
We recommend that you restart your browser to make sure the changes you've made are properly applied. top21.1.2 Opera
21.2 What to Do If Thumbnails Are Not Displayed? Usually, thumbnails of photos and albums are not displayed when running Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal Firewall software. To fix this problem, follow the instructions below. top21.2.1 Norton Internet Security 2002 When default Norton Internet Security (NIS) settings are used, NIS mistakes all your thumbnails for ads and blocks them. You can change settings of your NIS 2002 to permit the Fotki.com to use banners. To do that, please follow the instructions (the steps may slightly vary depending on the NIS version):
This should take care of the problem. If the problem persists after that, click the "Ad Blocking" button in the left column of the main NIS screen and disable all ad blocking. If that doesn't help either, contact us. top21.2.1.1 Norton Internet Security 2002 (screenshot sequence)
21.2.2 Norton Personal Firewall 2003 When default settings are used, Norton Personal Firewall (NPF) mistakes thumbnails for ads and blocks them. You can disable ad blocking for Fotki.com by doing the following (the steps may slightly vary depending on the NPF version):
This should inprove the problem. If the problem persists after that, disable all ad blocking for your NPF by clicking "Ad Blocking" on the main NPF screen (make sure that the corresponding checkbox gets unchecked). If that doesn't help either, contact us. top21.2.2.1 Norton Personal Firewall 2003 (screenshot sequence)
21.3 Why I See Pop-Up Ads on Fotki Pages? Fotki does not use pop-up or any other ads or banners. If you see a pop-up ad on your screen while using Fotki, the possible reasons for it may be as follows:
To prevent the appearing of pop-ups on your computer, we recommend using a web browser having a built-in pop-up blocking function, namely, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera or newer versions of Netscape. If you strongly feel that pop-up ads are unfair, intrusive or in any other way annoying, you may choose to report a complaint. To see where a pop-up came from, click on it with the right mouse-button and then choose "Properties" from the menu. top21.3.1 Where Report Complaints To? For complaints about a company from the USA:
For complaints about a company from another country, visit this site (click "Report Your Complaint" when you get there). top22. Fotki Pricing
Fotki Offers Premium and Free accounts Free Account comes with basic Fotki features and limited storage. Premium Account comes with UNLIMITED storage and advanced features and tools. Fotki Premium membership regular fee starts from as low as $2 per month (conveniently billed in annual installments) - that's less than 10 cents a day! Join us for FREE or subscribe for Fotki Premium for less than 10 cents a day! When registering, a new Fotki member gets a two-week-long free Trial Premium membership to get the experience of using the advanced Premium features. When the trial period is about to expire, a user can purchase Fotki Premium membership or continue as a free user. If a user chooses to start using free account, no payment is needed. His/her Trial account will automatically downgrade to Free one. Photo Prints
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*Data collected from other websites as of January 26, 2010. top23. Fotki Premium Membership Annual Fee
Fotki Offers Premium and Free accounts Free Account comes with basic Fotki features and limited storage. Premium Account comes with UNLIMITED storage and advanced features and tools. Fotki Premium membership regular fee starts from as low as $2 per month ($27 per year with 3-years subscription) - that's less than 10 cents a day!. Join us for FREE or subscribe for Fotki Premium for less than 10 cents a day! When registering, a new Fotki member gets a two-week-long free Trial Premium membership to get the experience of using the advanced Premium features. When the trial period is about to expire, a user can purchase Fotki Premium membership or continue as a free user. If a user chooses to start using free account, no payment is needed. His/her Trial account will automatically downgrade to Free one. top | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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