Uploading Images

Move images from local computers or networked storage to Good Gallery's online storage. Before uploading, review the image preparation guidelines to ensure your files are properly formatted.

Choose Images

Photographers sometimes struggle with choosing images for portfolios, collections, or websites. Questions about both quality and quantity are often at the forefront of those considerations.

Quality

Some visitors may judge your abilities based exclusively on the quality of your work. For those visitors, you might present a small, highly curated collection of only your very best images.

Visitors would judge your ability to perform work based on your presumed ability to replicate the quality represented in your portfolio. That visitor would select you based on the impeccable quality of every image shown.

The risk in this model is that with fewer photos to review, less informed visitors may not see the exact type or style of photograph they desire and assume that you are not able to execute that kind of work. Those visitors may also feel that a small portfolio indicates that you are less experienced.

When presenting a highly curated collection, most online galleries will contain fewer than 20-30 images.

Quantity

Some visitors may judge your abilities based on the quantity of photographs shown. Instead of a highly-curated collection, you might share a broad range of work. This means that some photos will not be as strong as your best images.

Showing a wide range of images may increase the likelihood that visitors will discover images that more closely align with their requirements. Showing a large portfolio might also help you gain the trust of skeptical visitors who want to see proof that you are a busy photographer with broad experience.

The risk in showing a large portfolio is that some of your images may not resonate with all visitors. Many art directors and some clients believe photographers are only as good as their weakest image.

Note: Two helpful guiding phrases when choosing images are "tight is right" and "more isn't always better."

When presenting a broadly curated collection, most online galleries will contain 40-200 photos.

Upload Process

Follow these steps to upload images:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folders menu heading, choose the appropriate folder.
4. Click the Upload Images button.
5. Upload images using one of these methods:
   • Drag & Drop
     1. Open a local folder using File Explorer (PC) or Finder (Mac).
     2. Select the appropriate images from a local computer folder.
     3. Click and drag the selected images to the boxed area on the Good Gallery Upload page.
     4. Release the mouse button.
   • Select Images
     1. Click the Drop Files Here or Click to Upload text.
     2. Select the appropriate images from a local computer folder.
     3. Click the Open button.
6. Do not leave the Upload tool until the word done appears next to every image.

Warning Dialog

When uploading a new image and a file with the same name already exists in any Folder, a warning is displayed. Available actions include:

Replace

When an uploaded image shares the same filename as a previously uploaded image, choose Replace to swap the previously uploaded image with the new image.

The new image will appear in every folder, gallery, and page where the previously uploaded image appeared. Information associated with the previously uploaded image including the Title, Permanent Link, Meta Description, Location, Tags, and Content is unchanged when an image is replaced.

However, if the newly uploaded image includes Exif information in the Title, Description, or Keyword image Exif fields, then the Exif information replaces information connected with the previously uploaded image.

Replace If File Size Is Different

Choose Replace If File Size Is Different to swap the previously uploaded image with the new image only if the file size of the two images is not the same. Otherwise, the previously uploaded image is not replaced.

The same Exif replacement rules apply as with the standard Replace option.

Upload as a Copy

Choose Upload as a Copy to append a numeric value (e.g. 02) to the new image filename without replacing the previously uploaded image. The new image is treated as a separate image from the previously uploaded image.

Skip

Choose Skip and the new image is not uploaded.

Resizing Message

In Folders, recently uploaded images are displayed with a red highlight overlay and a "resizing" message. When the resizing process is complete, the red highlight overlay is dismissed automatically.

If the red highlight overlay is present for an extended time, then the resizing process failed. Resizing failures can occur because of file formatting issues or file size concerns.

Warning: Files that feature a red highlight overlay for an extended period should be deleted. Afterwards, examine the original image file attributes and then upload the file again.