Adding a New Image
Title:
The title of the image. This will be displayed below the picture.
Caption
The caption that will appear underneath an image when it is displayed inline with text.
A Note About Captions Versus Titles:
By default whatever is in the title field of an image will be displayed underneath the image..
Unless you also enter something in the caption field. If you do this the caption will be displayed underneath images when it is used inline with blocks of text (and not the title).
When someone clicks to view a larger version of the image, or when someone views the image in the gallery viewer, when they will see both the title and the caption underneath the image.
So the caption should only be used if you want different wording underneath an image when it is used inline with text. Repeating the same wording in both the caption and title fields is pointless and you'll end up seeing the text twice when viewing large images.
Keywords
This is not in use... yet..
Reference
A file or library number, in case you need to find to original image again
Category
Use freely to make finding sets of images easier in the future. You can make as many categories as you like, and you can see a list of all the categories you've made previously in the 'Select Category' drop-down menu.
Description
Additional information you may want displayed below the caption on large-scale image views. You can use text markup in this field, allowing you do do things like making links to other pages.
Notes
Use this freely for anything text that will help you find and sort your images and generally make use of you image library. Notes don't ever get shown to the public.
Live
Whether or not you want an image to used on the site (handy when you're still editing notes and captions for new uploads).
Link ID
When an image is displayed inline with text it can also be a link.
By default, an inline image will be a link to the large-scale version of the picture (if available), which will open in a new window. If you put a link ID in this field, it will override this behaviour, allowing you to point an image anywhere you like (use the Link Manager to look up a links number).
You can also override this behaviour, by putting a link in the image tag... (see markup)
Magick Image:
Image Magick is the very smart software we use to make your life so much easier... The simple version of the process goes like this:
Choose a master image to upload. It doesn't matter how large this image is, so long as it's big. The bigger the better. The less-compressed the better. It's important to remember that Image Magick can scale pictures down to sensible web-usage sizes, but it cannot scale them up. This is the last time you'll have to concern yourself with thinking about image-sizing.
Magick takes the master file that you've uploaded and re-scales it so that it will fit into you website. Not just once, but several times; it makes a tiny version for use in result lists, there's a medium version for use inline with text. And there's a big-daddy version for when people want to look at a big version of a picture in all it's page-hogging glory. You don't have to think about which version of a picture to use, Weblobe will take care of all that nonsense for you.
Manual Images:
Say you want to crop a small section of an image to use as thumbnail rather than scale the whole thing down; The Manual Images form is where you can override the versions of a picture that Magick created.
n.b; upload a master images and let Magick run, then upload your manual overrides.