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.
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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
After you have checked the entries, to submit the changes to update the database, click on the "Submit Query" button.
Manager Questions
Occasionally, managers will have questions (or forward questions raised in the Mistakes & Errors forum) about a photograph. The usual method of communication is to send an email to the photographer with the question and what might need to be changed (usually lack of scale, not describing multiple species on photograph or too general of a locality). If you do not have a full membership (only activated membership), all you need to do is fix the photograph, and the question will be marked as resolved when the photo is approved. If you have a full membership, you should inform the manager who had a question when there has been a change in the photograph either by email or PM through the messageboard system.
You can also check to see if there are any unresolved questions about your photographs from the photograph section of the mindat "My Home Page". In the "What Photos to Show" dropdown menu, there is an option to show "My questioned Photos". If you run this search, it will show which photos have unresolved questions associated with them. If you click on the thumbnail photo to bring up the detailed photo page, you will see an option button "Photo Questioned" in the description area of the photo (to the left of "Edit this photo"). Clicking on this button will display a copy of the email question that was sent to you.
You will also see the following message displayed at the top of the form when you upload a new photograph or edit an existing photograph if there are any unresolved questions.
Open questions
Important! There are open questions from the managers about some of your photographs. Click on this link for listing of all questioned photos. To bring up the individual photos, click on the photograph. To display the questions, click on the Photo Questioned button in the description area of the photo page.
