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SEP 30 2009  Category: Take a tour by Syd Davies

Take a tour #3: Tag a picture

In the previous article of our series, we learned how to quickly add a picture, directly from your dashboard. But to be published on FatCap, each picture has to be tagged before. Let’s see how to do this in this article, with a lot of screenshots to be as visual and clear as possible.

This is what the interface looks like:

The first step is usually to  tag an artist. to do so, our smart system lets you start typing the first letter of their name directly into the field. In most cases, it should appear. If it’s not the case, add it yourself by clicking on the link highlighted in pink in the picture.

Note: In the large majority of the cases (>80%), the only thing to do is start typing letters, and choosing from the suggestion box. Hence the process is extremely fast, generally between 15 and 30 seconds by picture added. We will go deep in the details in this article for a matter of exhaustivity.

Adding a new artist

In the same way than before, the crew (/crews) of the artist might already exist. In this case it will appear when you type the first letters of the crew. If it doesn’t, you shall add it yourself by clicking on the “add a new crew” link, which will deploy a form just below the current form. Once everything is filled, the only thing remaining is saving the form. The popup will close, and your artist will go straight to the “artists” field.

Tagging a city

Tagging a city works exactly the same way. Except that you can change the country of the city, by clicking on the little flag inside the field, like in this screenshot:

In the case where the city you’re typing in has doubles (for example, Springfield USA), you will have to choose amongst the different options, that will be presented to you instantely. Take a look and see how easy it is.

Useful, huh?

Once everything is filled, you should have something like this:

Then it’s just a matter of saving, before your picture goes for approval by the FatCap team (unless you’re an official photographer, in which case it will go live directly). You will have a confirmation message after you save, and a very precise error reporting if something goes wrong.

Extra:

If you imported your pictures from Flickr, you will have an extra button to see the picture directly on Flickr. Useful when you don’t remember all the information on the photo!

In the next article of the series, we will cover the importation of pictures from Flickr. One of the most useful functionalities of FatCap. In the meantime, share your comments on this post.

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SEP 30 2009  Category: Take a tour by Syd Davies

Take a tour #2 : The Dashboard

In the first article of the series, we learned the basic principles for a pleasant browsing on FatCap. In this article, we will learn more about MY FATCAP, the member administration zone of FatCap, from which you can do tons of cool things.

This is how it looks:

not bad, huh? ;)

Let’s explain the magic:

#1: Create your artist page – This block is for all the artists who wish to take control of their own artist page. The process is dead-simple: you type the first letters of your artist name, you select it in the auto suggets, then you validate. From there, the process is launch, and the only thing to do is… add pictures! The approval process is entirely automatic: the more pictures you have, and the more acceptation your pictures get, the more likely you are to see your artist page accepted.

#2: Statistics. We love stats, and I know you do too. It gives a visual information of how people like your work, and the real time dimension is just pretty exciting. That’s why we conceived this stat system: In a glance, you can see how your page and/or your pictures have been performing over the last few months, and how they have are performing now over the last few days.

The pie chart lets you have a clear vision of the status of your pictures: how many active, how many awaiting approval, how many untagged, etc.

#3: Manage your pictures. From this block, you can access your latest albums, go directly into tagging. And you can also add a quick picture by browsing, selecting, sending the file within seconds. It will then lead you straight to the tagging step (which we will cover in the next article)

#4: Manage your videos. In the same way than for the pictures, you can jump to your latest uploads and perform action from there, or you directly add a new video from the three providers we support, namely Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo.

#5: Import your pictures. This is amazing stuff that you guys who are tech-savvy will love. You can indeed import your pictures from the outside right into FatCap. So far we support Flickr, the other will follow in the coming releases. We will go deeply into how import a picture from Flickr in the 4th episode of our “Take a tour” series.

#6: Notifications. The best place to track all activity related to your account. Here you will be informed of who liked your picture, who commented on your last video, and when each of your asset is accepted by the moderation team.

Summary

The Dashboard is THE central place for managing one’s content on FatCap. The flow goes both way, given that you can upload a lot of information, and you get a lot in return too, allowing you to know more about how your content is used and liked by the community.

In the next article, we will learn how to tag a picture. This is probably the most important thing to learn, so stay tuned!

Syd

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Tags: artists, dashboard, members, usability