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Help using the Forum |
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Contents
The forum agreement.
Using the forum
What can I post?
Joining the Forum
Posting
Viewing posts
Inserting Images
About Images
Deleting Images from your upload folder
The forum agreement
The following text is reproduced from agreement members made on registering for the forum
Interactive Watercolour Forum at Paintdoodles.com
If you agree with the following rules then click on the 'Accept' button at the bottom of the page if not click on the 'Cancel' button.
When you register you are required to give a small amount of information, much of which is optional, anything you do give must be considered as becoming public information.
You agree not to use this forum to post any material which is vulgar, defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, hateful, threatening, invading of others privacy, sexually oriented, or violates any laws. You also agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by yourself unless you have obtained permission to do so from the copyright owner. This should be acknowledged with the picture. e.g. 'by kind permission of.............'.
You agree that you will not post any pictures, paintings, drawings or graphics depicting nudity.
Furthermore, you agree to respect the copyright of any images posted in the forum whether these be photographs, paintings, drawings or graphics. You agree to ask the owner of any such material before producing and posting a work of art of your own, based on the original material unless clear indication is given that you may do so freely.
You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum and their agents with respect to any claim based upon any post you may make. We also reserve the right to reveal whatever information we know about you in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by yourself.
Although messages posted are not the responsibility of this forum and we are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any of these messages, we reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. If you do find any posts are objectionable then please contact the forum by e-mail or by using the report facility of the forum.
The Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) requires that Web Sites are to obtain parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13. If you are below 13 then you can NOT use this forum. Do NOT register if you are below the age of 13.
By registering to use this forum you meet the above criteria and agree to abide by all of the above rules and policies. Any change in these rules will be notified in the forum.
Rules updated 1st October 2007
Using the forum
The forum is provided free for customers of the Interactive Watercolour CD. PaintDoodles.com reserves the right to terminate the forum without notice.
Membership of the forum has, at present, not been restricted to Interactive Watercolour customers so that responses to questions and discussions can be as wide and informative as possible.
You don't need to register as a member if you just want to read the posts and view images in the forum.
To conserve space and free up usernames, registered users who have not made any posts will be periodically deleted. If you return to make a post and find that you are no longer listed, just join again.
If you have registered in the forum and find that you are unable to log on, deleting the cookies in the temporary internet files on your computer will usually put things right.
Some existing members use digital alterations to illustrate how a painting could be improved. If you don't want your posted paintings altered in this way, please include a note in your signature (editable in your profile) such as: 'I prefer that my paintings are not digitally altered' or simply 'No digital alterations'. Alternatively, if you are happy to accept digital alterations, this could be indicated in your signature.
What can I post?
We request that members use appropriate language and do not post drawings or paintings depicting nudity. The forum membership is from a wide range of cultures, and may also be viewed by children so please do not post material that other visitors may find offensive.
If a painting has been derived from teaching or copyright material, please make reference to the source and/or original artist. For your own protection it is advisable to obtain permission from the publisher of such material before posting your own version of an Artists painting. Members take full responsibility for such postings.
Please do not post images that belong to someone else unless you have obtained permission to do so. There is no need in the paintdoodles forum to make any reference to material derived from the Interactive Watercolour CD unless you wish to do so.
Please respect the copyright of any paintings, drawings, photographs or graphics posted in the forum by members. If you would like to have a go at a members painting or photo, please ask first. Most members will usually agree to this where it is for the sole purpose of your own education. The Monthly Joint Projects Forum will specifically give permission for the use of a photograph.
Please remember that the purpose of the forum is to help members learn to paint.
Those members with abilities are encouraged to freely give help to those on
their quest to improve, with particular attention to those just starting out.
The forum should not be used as: a personal gallery; for a personal agenda other
than learning to paint or helping others to learn to paint nor should it be used
solely to seek praise.
Any posts which are considered to be inappropriate, deliberately argumentative
or in bad taste will be deleted. Members persistently offending will have their
membership of the forum suspended.
Advertisements for web sites (other than registered members sites), supplies or
other services which are not in answer to a post question will be deleted.
Similarly, memberships or posts created for the sole purpose of advertisement of web sites or supplies will be terminated. (If you have an art related web site and would like a reciprocal link in the Links/Partners section of Paintdoodles just send an email from the menu at left)
Joining the Forum
To post in the forum you have to register as a user. This registration is separate from registering your Interactive Watercolour CD.
You select your own username and password to use as your entry into the forum. Your username doesn't have to be your real name, it's just how you will be known on the forum. The security provided by the password prevents anyone, other than a Forum Moderator or Forum Administrator, editing or deleting your posts.
An email address is not required but if you wish receive notification of posts in forums that you have contributed to, or if you forget your password and want a new one sent to you, your email needs to be provided.
You can choose to show your email address to other users or not.
Your Profile can be edited at any time by selecting the
Member Control Panel link on the left of the
forum page after you log on.
Then select from Edit profile to
edit your settings. Please don't change your username as you may lose your post
count and any private messages that you have.
Posting
You
have to be logged in to make a post. You can edit or delete your own posts by
logging in and clicking
the
Post options link and selecting an option from the
drop down list. You can only delete your own posts but only when no one has
posted after you. To make a post, Click the Post Reply Button
or
go to the end of the thread and use the Quick Reply
editor.
To start a new topic use the
Topic Options link
and select an option from the drop down list in the relevant forum.
Viewing Posts
Posts can be seen by selecting pages in that topic from the top of the topic page.
Inserting Images into the Forum.
There are two ways to
insert images into your forum post. From an image already on the web at your web
site or by uploading to your personal upload folder at Paintdoodles. Both
are accessed by pressing the
icon at the top of the Full Post Reply box which is accessed either by selecting
a new topic. In an existing topic, it can be selected by pressing abutton
in the thread or the
icon in the
Quick Reply box
which appears after the last post in the thread. (The insert image feature
is not available in the Quick reply editor)
This will open the Image properties dialog box.
To insert an
image from your computer, press the Browse Button
and follow the on screen prompts.
This will upload the image into your upload folder and details of the image will
be shown in the File name box . The image will stay
in your upload folder until you choose delete it. (See
deleting an image).
Images must be below 50kbytes or they will not upload. You can preview the image
in the preview box by clicking on its file name. With the image in the
preview box, click OK
to insert the image in the post. There is 10MBytes of space in your upload
folder. Please use the space only for images used in the forum.
To insert an image from your web site: enter the full URL to the image in the Image URL Box. Resize and position the image, if necessary, using the controls above the preview box. An Alternative text for the image can be entered. The text will show when the viewer does a mouse over the image in the forum or when no images are displayed due to the viewers browser settings.
TIP: If the picture is showing in your web space, you can right click on the image and selecting ‘properties’ will give you the full URL of that image. Just highlight and copy. When you are at the point where the Insert Image pop-up box appears, just paste the URL but make sure only ONE ‘http://’ is showing.
Important – file names should be lower case with no spaces and only: - (minus) or _ (underscore) characters. Many servers do not recognize caps, spaces or special characters in file names and using them may cause your image not to show.
About Images:
The first thing you must do is get your image onto your computer either by way of a scanner, a smartcard / smartmedia / memory stick device or directly from a digital camera. This instructional assumes you already know how to go about performing that task. For those who do not know how to go about this, it’s best to obtain that information through the input device instruction manual. Directions can be different depending on device and many times the manufacturer of the device being used.
Once you have your image, then it is important to “prep” it for showing on the Internet. There are a number of programs to use for this such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, etc. You may need to “correct” your image with regards to being too dark, too light, out of focus, colour correction and so on ……… refer to graphic’s program instructions for taking care of this type of prep work.
Produce the correct image size for showing on the Forum.
Set your image editing software to measure the image in pixels. Use Resize to reduce your image as follows:
image sizes are best kept to no larger than 500 pixels wide and 400 pixels high for landscape format….vice versa for portrait.
Use a resolution of 72ppi (pixels per inch)
Save photographic type images (pictures of your paintings) as .jpg files and line art as .gif files.
With jpg files, use a compression which will reduce the file size to 50kbytes or less whilst maintaining the picture quality.
If your photographic software has a 'Save for web' facility this will usually do a more efficient job of producing a good quality picture at minimum size.
There's also a tutorial for sizing images in Irfanview here. Irfanview is a free image editing software package.
Deleting Images from your upload folder
When logged in,
click the link to Member control panel
on the left.
Select file manager. Select the image you want to
delete and click the delete file icon
. Don't forget that if
you delete a file, it will not be displayed in your posts any longer.
More Help
Should you have additional questions, please make a post in the Forum Help forum
.The information on this page has been given to assist those wishing to use the forum. It is given in good faith and is believed to be accurate but without any guarantee.
Date page last edited: Wednesday November 21, 2007