If your site has an updateable Gallery, you will be using the Slideshowpro Director (SSP) to update your images and albums. This tutorial will teach you how to create albums and how to add and edit images.

Once your Gallery has been set up, we will give you a link to your SSP login page. Please login using the username and password given to you. If you have not received this information, please let us know and we’d be happy to pass on the login info.

Figure 14: The SSP Login Page

Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see the SSP Dashboard. First, you’ll want to click on the “Add an album” link. Give the album a name and then you’ll be able to add images. If you would like to upload many images at once, you can click on Upload images as a Zip archive. Before you browse for your zip file, go to the folder where are the images are stored and make sure that there are no other files in the folder. Highlight all of the images and zip them. (For instructions on zipping files please see this section of the Sending Large Files support page.) Once you’ve added your images, click Create Album

Now you will see the album you’ve just added on the Dashboard. Click Edit beside this album, and you’ll be able to edit the title of the album. If you’d like thumbnails of your images to appear at the bottom of your gallery, click the Generate Content tab, and then the Edit link beside “No thumbnails have been generated for this album”. In the drop down window, enter the size of the thumbnails (Eg 100× 80), the Quality (we recommend 75) and check off Scale and crop. When you click Generate the system will create the thumbnails for all of your images.

If you have multiple albums that visitors will choose from, it’s a good idea to add an Album Preview image. Click Select to choose one of the existing images. This image will appear in the album index.

Figure 15: Generating Thumbnails

Adding/Deleting Images

To add or delete images from an album, click on the Edit Images tab. You will be able to add new images by clicking Browse and uploading images from your computer. You can also delete existing images by clicking on this icon .

The final step after setting up your album is to make it live. To do this, go to the Dashboard and click Make Active next to the album.