Building an Image Data Base
with MyAlbum

 

·        Open the program named "MyAlbum"

 

·        Create an album to hold your collection of images.

·        Go to the File Menu and click on "New"

 

·        Go back to the File menu as click on Save (or Save As). [To continue, you must be logged on to the network and have a drive mapped to our web space on the web server: . . . /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/]

·        Choose a suitable name for your album and Save you album TO YOUR FOLDER ON THE HIST255-S01 SPACE.

 

·        Now add images to your album: Go to the Edit menu and choose either "Add Files" or "Add Folder." 

·        "Add Files" allows you to add one or more specific files that are stored in a given folder.

·        "Add Folder" adds every image in a folder that you select.

 

Here is the "Add Files" window

 

 

Here is the window for "Add Folder"

 

·        Attach identifying information to each of your images.

·        Go to the "Picture" menu and click on "Picture Information" to open the data window for this image.

[Short-cuts: push the F7 key; or with the image highlighted, use the right mouse button to open a menu and select "Information"]

 

 

·        Enter the information that identifies the image: Title; author; date; and source of the image. You can add a note or comment as you wish.

 

·        Move to the next image by clicking on the "forward" pointing arrow at the upper right of the Picture information window.  Enter the identifying information for that information.  Repeat for each of you images.

 

If you are missing some of the needed information, you can come back at any time to the Picture information window and enter and edit this textual data.  First highlight/select the image; then open the Picture information window as you did above.

 

Be sure to save your album from time to time to ensure that you preserve the data that you've entered.

 

Make a backup copy of your album (not the images) on a floppy disk. If your album grows too large for a floppy disk, try to save it to a larger removable disk such as a ZIP disk; or, save a backup copy to your personal web space under your username and in your "world" directory.

 

Returning to Work on Your Album at a Later Time

 

Two things to bear in mind: 1) the program "MyAlbum" resides on the local hard drive of one of the machines in 420 Clapp; 2) the album that you created to store thumbnails of your images and associated information resides in your folder on our web space which is on the network. When you return to add more images, to edit the information, or to retrieve information, you must first log on the network and map a drive to our web space.

 

·      Once done, open the program "MyAlbum."

·      Now open your album by going to the File menu, selecting "Open" and navigating to the folder on the network where you saved your album.