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Display a gallery of photos on your Web site

 
Applies to
Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003

With FrontPage, you can add a collection of photos or other images to your Web site in the form of a photo album or catalog.

Using the Web Component command on the Insert menu in FrontPage, you can add a photo gallery that consists of thumbnail images with text captions and descriptions. By default, the thumbnail images are 100 pixels by 100 pixels in size—a little larger than 1 inch by 1 inch.

Site visitors can easily scan your collection of images in the thumbnail state. They can also click on each thumbnail image to see a full-size image.

When you create a photo gallery, you can add as many photos as you want. You can also add or remove photos any time. You can add photos from a variety of sources, including:

  • Your computer or local Web site
  • The World Wide Web
  • The Microsoft Clip Organizer
  • A scanner
  • A digital camera

Photo gallery layouts

There are four types of photo gallery layouts available in FrontPage: Horizontal, Vertical, Montage, and Slideshow.

Horizontal     Display thumbnails of your photos in horizontal rows, with captions beneath the images.
Vertical     Display thumbnails of your photos in columns, with captions to the right of the images.
Montage     Display thumbnails of your images in a collage-like pattern. When a site visitor rests his or her pointer over the image, caption text is displayed.
Slideshow     Display thumbnails of your images in a row that scrolls across the top. When a site visitor selects a thumbnail image, the full-size image appears below the row.

Edit photos

After you have added the photos to your photo gallery, you can resize, rotate, flip, or crop them. You can also reset any photo to its original state.

Display photos in your Web site

The procedures that follow enable you to create a photo gallery, add, remove, resize, and edit a photo or other type of image, change the caption of a photo, and also change the entire layout of a photo gallery.

Create a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Place the insertion point where you want to add a photo gallery.
  3. On the Insert menu, click Web Component.
  4. In the Component type list, click Photo Gallery.
  5. In the Choose a Photo Gallery Option list, click the layout you want.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. To add a photo to the photo gallery, click Add.

ShowTip

To select more than one photo, hold down CTRL and select the photos you want.

  1. Do one of the following:

ShowAdd a photo from a file

  1. Click Pictures from Files.
  2. Locate and click the file you want, and then click Open.

ShowAdd a photo from a scanner

  1. Click Pictures from Scanner or Cameras.
  2. Under Device, click the device you want to add a graphic from.
  3. Click the resolution (resolution: The fineness of detail in an image or text produced by a monitor or printer.) that you want.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • To add the graphic in its original form, click Insert.
    • To adjust the properties of the graphic, click Custom Insert, and then select the graphics you want to add.

ShowAdd a photo from a digital camera

  1. Click Pictures from Scanner or Cameras.
  2. Under Device, click the device you want to add a graphic from.
  3. Click Custom Insert.
  4. Select the graphic that you want to add and then click Get Pictures.
  1. To rearrange the order of the photos, select the name of the photo, and click Move Up or Move Down.
  2. In the Caption box, type text that describes the photo.

Add a photo to a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery where you want to add a photo.
  3. Click the Pictures tab, and then click Add.

ShowTip

To select more than one photo, hold down CTRL and select the photos you want.

  1. Do one of the following:

ShowAdd a photo from a file

  1. Click Pictures from Files.
  2. Locate and click the photo you want, and then click Open.

ShowAdd a photo from a scanner

  1. Click Pictures from Scanner or Cameras.
  2. Under Device, click the device you want to add a graphic from.
  3. Click the resolution (resolution: The fineness of detail in an image or text produced by a monitor or printer.) that you want.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • To add the photo in its original form, click Insert.
    • To adjust the properties of the photo, click Custom Insert, and then select the photos you want to add.

ShowAdd a photo from a digital camera

  1. Click Pictures from Scanner or Cameras.
  2. Under Device, click the device you want to add a photo from.
  3. Click Custom Insert.
  4. Select the photo that you want to add and then click Get Pictures.
  1. To rearrange the order of the photos, select the name of the photo, and then click Move Up or Move Down.
  2. In the Caption box, type text that describes the photo.

Edit a photo in a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery.
  3. Select the name of the photo you want to edit.
  4. Click Edit, and do one or more of the following:

ShowChange the size of the photo

ShowRotate or flip the photo

Under Rotate Picture, do one or more of the following:

  • To rotate the photo 90 degrees counterclockwise, click Rotate Left Button image.
  • To rotate the photo 90 degrees clockwise, click Rotate Right Button image.
  • To turn the photo upside down, click Flip Vertical Button image.
  • To create a mirror image, click Flip Horizontal Button image.

ShowCrop the photo

  1. Under Crop Picture, click Crop.

A cropping box appears on the photo.

  1. Click and drag the handles to resize the box.
  2. Click Crop again to remove the area outside of the cropping box.

Change a caption or description in a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery.
  3. Click the name of the photo you want to change.
  4. Do one or both of the following:
    • In the Caption box, type the new caption.
    • In the Description box, type the new description.

Resize the photo in a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery.
  3. Click the thumbnail photo that you want to resize.
  4. Under Thumbnail size, specify a new width and height in pixels (pixel: A single unit of measurement that your computer's display hardware uses to paint images on your screen. These units, which often appear as tiny dots, compose the pictures displayed by your screen.).

Remove a photo from a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery.
  3. In the Photo Gallery Properties dialog box, click the Pictures tab.
  4. Click the photo, and then click Remove.

Change the layout of a photo gallery

  1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image.
  2. Double-click the photo gallery, and then click the Layout tab.
  3. Choose a layout from the list.
  4. Type or select a number in the Number of pictures per row box.

 Note   The Slide Show Layout and Montage Layout photo galleries do not use columns and rows to display the photos; therefore, you do not need to specify a number.

 
 

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