What Is the Photo Albums Feature? #
Photo Album makes it easy to upload, view, download and organize images in albums. You can browse photos with small thumbnails to see more than a few at a time, view a gallery, or even download originals to your device.
Along with image viewing, Photo Album has many more functions for image management, including changing orientation, adding titles, and more.
You can access this feature by clicking on Photo Albums in the navigation panel on the left. This will allow you to access the photo albums for the project that you are in.
Downloading Albums #
To download an album, click on the three dots next to its name and then click on Download.
A pop-up will open listing all photos in the album. Here you can deselect any photos you don’t wish to download by clicking the X next to the photo’s name. When you have made your selection, click on Download to complete your download your photos to a compressed Zip file.
Uploading Photos #
To add photos to an album, click on the three dots next to the album’s name or on the cloud icon on top of gallery.
A pop-up window will open for you to upload photos. You can click on the cloud button and select photos by browsing or you could drag and drop photos in this area.
Add a title to the photo(s) that you have selected and click Save to complete uploading photos to the album.
Optionally, you may add description and tags in the provided fields for photos as additional information.
You can also select users to send email to directly from this pop-up. Select recipients by User or by Role to inform them of this upload.
Editing Photos (Rotate, Add Text) #
You can find all actions related to individual photos by clicking the three dots next to that photo.
Click on Edit to modify information fields of the photo, such as Title, description or tags.
Click on the rotate options to change the orientation of the photo as desired.
To Email photos, click on the check boxes on the desired photo(s) or check the select all photos by checking the box on top left corner of the gallery (circled in red).
When you make selection, relevant action items will be displayed in the top bar above the photo gallery. Click on the envelope icon to email photos as a link.
A pop-up window will open, select the Projectmates users by User or By Role and optionally, add a message in the text box, then click Send.
Note: this is the secure method for when recipients have Projectmates login and relevant access rights.
To email external recipients, toggle the “Secure” option and select the duration for which you want the lick to be active. Add recipients from “contacts” or type external email addresses (separated by comma) and then click Send.
