How to designate a primary gallery image

[MelanieC]

I have three galleries here. They seem to choose the primary image (the one that shows up on my main member gallery page) that represents them at random. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to designate one photo as the primary photo -- I know I did it once before -- but now it defeats me.

Help?

I also can't figure out why, when I edit my photos, it will sometimes give me the option of filling out fields for camera, lens, film, etc., and sometimes not. Am I hallucinating?

 

[Rich Silfver]

You do it like this:
1) Go to 'My Albums'

2) Next to the current photo for the album there are a number of options (Upload photos, Delete, Edit and Sort Photos). Click 'Sort Photos'

3) You now get a display of all the photos in that album. Under each photo is an option called 'Make Album Cover'. Pick the photo you want for that album and click the link under it.

4) The link under that photo should now change to read 'Current thumbnail'

Ta-Da!

 

[Rich Silfver]

The second question was a bit trickier.
It appears that there is a bit of a bug in the upload program in the gallery.
There are in essence two ways of uploading images to the gallery.
1) Go to your albums and click the 'upload photos' link next to the album photo, and
2) Click on the general 'Upload photos' link in the upper right corner of the screen.

#1 does not appear to give you the additional data fields to enter camera, lens, etc. - but #2 does if you do NOT indicate what album the photo should go to (it needs to stay as 'None'). You'd have to reclassify this after it is uploaded.

It all seems odd..but the above works. Is there an easier solution anyone?

 

[Dougg]

Right... when you finish addiing all that nice tech data for your photo, as soon as you move it into one of your albums the data evaporates. You cannot add it back as long as the photo is in an album. (It hasn't always been this way.) And for that reason, some members put the tech data in the text description, and some just don't use albums at all.

Good info on the "album cover", thanks! 🙂