Taking Photograffs

1. Never leave home without your digital camera. It's more important than your credit card – you'll never get the second chance to shoot a great picture when you come across an opportunity unexpectedly !
2. Make sure you have a memory card and extra battery for your camera.
3. Set up your camera for the best shot – macro, sports, portrait, landscape, etc.
4. Set up your camera to take pictures at, say, 5 megapixels. The size depends upon your purpose. At 5 megapixels, you can get reasonably good A4 size prints. For web posting, 3 megapixels would be sufficient.
5. Shoot anything that catches your fancy. You'll learn overtime and improve on your knack in capturing attention-grabbing scenes.
6. View and select the best shots for uploading to your albums in Photograffs.com

Processing Photograffs

1. You want your photograffs to look great, not just good, in your album. So you want to process your photograffs before uploading to your album.
2. Use your favourite image processing software such as Photoshop, Fireworks, Picasa, or any other that you are familiar with, to edit your photograffs.
3. Enhance the brightness, colour, contrast, etc., until you are satisfied with the picture.
4. Our maximum file size upload is 5 MB per photo. You can upload actual size photos without the need for resizing.
5. If you want exif information on your photograff to be uploaded as well, you need to use the "save as.." in jpg format. If you use the "save for web" method, the exif information will not show up on the website. However, "save as.." in jpg method will increase the file size by almost ten times compared to the "save for web" method. The size limit for uploaded photos in Photograffs is set at 5 MB.
6. You are now ready to upload your photograffs.
7. Sign up at this stage if you have not already done so.

Uploading your Images to Photograffs.com

1. The maximum fike size per photo for uploading is 5 MB.
2. Before you upload your photos, you need to create your albums first.
3. Log in to Photograffs.com.
4. Click on “Albums” in the admin menu (the greyed boxes).
5. Create your albums. Give a name for each album e.g. “Japan Holiday May 2005” or “Tibet 2005”, "My 21st birthday party", etc. You can delete any album anytime.
6. Once your albums are created, click on “Upload file” (the blue wordings at the top).
7. Follow the instructions for uploading.
8. After uploading, you can view your photograffs by clicking “My Gallery ”. You can delete your photograffs anytime.
9. Enjoy. Wow your friends, colleagues, uncles or aunties. Send them an e-card and share your photos with them. The e-card feature is found on the page where you view the picture slides. Look for the icon in this page.

Editing the Information for each Uploaded Image

1. You can provide a little bit more information on your photos, like title and description.
2. Log on to Photograffs.com
3. Click on “Album List”.
4. Click on “edit files” for your selected album. The list of files under the album will be visible.
5. Edit your photos, one at a time, starting with the title. Give it an appropriate description e.g. “ Hindu Temple ”, “No laughing matter”, etc. Be creative but make the title short.
6. For the Description, give some details of your photo. E.g. “ Calcutta , India . Street Festival”, “Celebrating Stanley's first birthday”, "the best Pizza restaurant in town", etc.
7. For keywords, use one single word or phrase (e.g. xxxx_xxxxx) to describe your picture. E.g. “India”, “flower”, baby”, “birthday”, “london_bridge”, “eiffel_tower”, “new_york”, “movie_stars”, etc. You can have more than one keyword for each photo. But it means that your photo will appear in more than one album if your keyword matches the title of the album. It also means that you photo will more easily searched.
8. You can also move your photos to another album in this page.
9. You can also select and assign your photos to the "Favourites" page. Just click on any selected photo, look for the file information icon, click it and then look for the "Add favourites" at the bottom of the page.