In order to participate, you must register at our community forums. Here is the link to register.

Once you have successfully registered, you can log into the gallery here.

The first step in creating your gallery is to create albums in which to place your images. You can create as many albums as you wish.

Once your album(s) is created, you will then be able to modify your album by changing the album title, adding a description and keywords and setting the album permissions. You can even make the album password protected if you want.

You are now ready to start uploading your images.

There are several places to look if you want to find your images, depending if you created a personal gallery or just upload your images to the public albums. The best place to go is your control panel, because you can get to all of your images.

When creating your personal albums, you maintain total control over them. You can change the properties of your albums. You can also set the permissions. The public albums are those that we have already created. All registered users can upload images to one of the public albums. However, users can not modify the public album properties. Also, images that you place in the public albums will not appear in your personal gallery unless you place them there as well.

Uploading images to one of the public albums is no different than uploading images to one of your personal albums. Follow the directions from step 1, 2 and 3 directly above. Then skip to Step 6 - Upload File, but instead of choosing your personal album, choose any of the others.

Uploading images to the art showdown album is no different than uploading images to one of the public albums or your personal albums. Follow the directions from step 1, 2 and 3 directly above. Then skip to Step 6 - Upload File, but instead of choosing a public or your personal album, choose the art showdown album.

There are two ways that you can upload and image to more than one album.

The first way is by uploading your image to each album separately. So if you want your image to be displayed in your personal gallery and one of the public albums, you would upload it and place it in your personal gallery. You would then repeat the process and place it in the other album of your choice.

The second way takes a bit less time, but is a bit more complicated. You can upload your images to your personal album and then link them to one of the other albums using keywords or keyword phrases. To learn how to do this, click the link below that says: How to use keywords effectively to link your images to other albums.

Each one of the public albums has one keyword phrase associated with it. Type the phrase, associated with the album you want to place your image, in the keyword field (click for demo). If you do this correctly, your image will only have to be uploaded one time. It will be stored in the album that you choose, but it will be displayed in all of the albums in which you added a keyword phrase. Below is a list of the keyword phrases associated with each of the public albums.

You can edit any of your images by clicking the thumbnail of the image. There you will see links under your image to be able to edit or delete (click for demo). Once you click the link to edit file information, you will then be able to edit things such as: the album the image is in, the title, description and other details about the image.

If you want to edit multiple images at once that belong in one of your personal albums, simply click the link at the top of the page that says "MY GALLERY". Once there, you will see a thumbnail view of your albums. Click the link next to one of your albums that says "EDIT FILES" (click for demo). There you will be able to view all of your images and information at one time, while being able make changes.