Managing your Photo Gallery

From Mindat

You can edit any of the data fields about your photographs, upload an improved photograph of the specimen, add additional photographs of the specimen or request deletion of the photograph. If you believe there is an error on a photograph (from another person), either contact the photographer directly by use of the contact form on their home page or post a comment on the Mistakes & Errors Message Board.

Table of contents

1 Go To Edit Page 2 Edit Page 3 Upload new image 4 Upload another image of a specimen (Child Photo) 5 Delete Photograph

Go To Edit Page

To get to the edit page of a mineral photograph.

• You can click on "Edit this" (below the photograph) in a member's gallery.
• You can click on "Edit this" (below the photograph) in the location gallery.
• You can click on "Edit this" (below the photograph) in a mineral gallery.
• You can click on the "Edit this" button on the detailed display of the mineral photograph.

Edit Page

The fields are the same as on the Upload Photograph entry screen.

Upload new image

To replace an image, all you have to do is in the Image replace box, click "Browse" to find replacement photograph on your computer and then click "Upload".

Upload another image of a specimen (Child Photo)

This photo is the main (parent) photo of this specimen. You can upload other photos of this specimen, these are called 'child' images and all photos are linked together so you can easily view different aspects of the same specimen.

Click on the "Click here to add a child image" to initiate the adding of a child photo.

Delete Photograph

To request the deletion of a photograph, please fill in the reason field and check the box. If you want to delete the photo because you have a better photo of the specimen available, please use the upload new image option above.

After you have checked the entries, to submit the changes to update the database, click on the "Submit Query" button.