How to add photos to your own album

walkman archive · Dec 12, 2016

There's a cool feature in this forum: the media albums. With them you can have your own photo (and video) albums available at anytime for sharing with others or using in your own posts.

How to create a new album

First, go to the Media Tab:

And then click over:

You will see a page where you can create a new album:

Once you click there, you'll see a window where you can enter a name for your album, a description:

And you can se who can view it. I recommend members only: (not guests)

and who can add photos to it: (in case you want to allow)

Then click Create Album and you're done.

How to add photos to an album

Once you have created an album, you can upload images: (if you need help on how to prepare images to upload, take a look at this help page)

Now, select all the images in your computer and start the upload. You'll see something like this:

After a few seconds the upload will be complete:

Then you must enter some descriptions and tags:

Tags are important so other members can find your images easily, not just by its name but by searching for something in particular

I.e: as you can see, I tagged my AIWA XK-S9000 photo with AIWA, deck,3-head, Direct Drive and Champagne. That means that if someone searches an image in the entire site containing 'deck', '3-head' and 'AIWA', he will find easily my photo.

Tags are entered just by separating with a comma. You can enter as much as you can, but you MUST enter at least one. I recommend something that goes from whole description (boombox, walkman, deck...) to more detailed, like brand, main feature or color.

Once you're done, hit Save media, and you'll see something like this:

That's it!

Now you can filter the by their type:

Or browse by a particular tag, i.e 'dbx':

And here's the best about this: you can easily find whatever images you (or anyone else) tagged as 'dbx':

How to edit your album

You can edit many different things. for example, you can re-order photos by clicking here:

Then you'll this window where you can simply drag and drop the images. As easy as that:

Hit Save custom order when you're done.

If you click over an image:

you can edit a lot of things:

Also you can find more tools here which are pretty obvious:

How to add photos to a post using the media album

Once you have some photos uploaded to your media albums, you can easily add any to any post. When you're writing a post or reply, hit this icon:

and this will appear:

Now just place the cursor wherever you want to insert the image and clic over any image and it will add the code to show it:

you still won't see the image in the post, but when you finish posting your reply, it will appear:

That's it!