Published April 19th, 2010
by Websites and Services Support
Getting Started
Watch a video tutorial on how to setup your Session Proofing settings in your Marketing Control Site OR scroll down to read more about your settings.
The Marketing Control site is where you will create your settings such as the Marathon default watermark, refresh the sessions you just uploaded, enable the zoom tool and much more.
This video tutorial will guide you to setup the initial settings within your Marketing Control site. If you are using sessions ONLY, you will have fewer link options. You can always add the shopping cart. Call for additional details about our one-time setup fee if you are interested in having your clients purchase images online.
1. Click on WEB in the top right corner of your Marketing Control Site.
2. Click on the "Session Proofing" link in red.
If you have already saved your options and settings you can skip step #3.
Create you Online Session Proofing site
3. Create your Online Session Proofing site through your personal options. Click the red link in the text that reads: “...these settings”.
3.1 In this settings screen you can create your contact information, your display options such as zoom and watermarking your images, and shopping cart options for shipping, sales tax, and your payment gateway information to process orders if you have the cart enabled. Please contact Marathon Internet Services Customer Support at 800-228-0629 to ask about our shopping cart and how to get started.
4. If you have already created your Settings You will be directed to this page to refresh a session you just uploaded via FTP, create price lists, and view orders.
Published April 6th, 2010
by Websites and Services Support
This tutorial will show you the recommended settings when using Adobe Bridge CS4 to export images intended for upload to your website's Session Proofing system.
1. Open Bridge CS4. 2. Find your photos by using either the Favorites or Folders tabs near the upper-left corner of the Bridge window.
3. Select the photos intended for this gallery.
4. Click the Output button at the top-right of the Bridge window.
5. Click the "Web Gallery" button near the top-right of the Bridge window in the Engine section.
6. Choose "HTML Gallery" for the Template type.
7. Below the Output section, scroll down to the "Create Gallery" section if it is not already visible.
8. Click Browse and choose a location on your computer to save the exported folder of images.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Save.
When the export is complete (it may take a while depending on the size and number of photographs) it should have created a folder called "Adobe Web Gallery".
11. Within the exported web gallery folder, locate the "thumb" and "large" folders, as these need renamed to "thumbnails" and "images". These two folders are found in the exported folder following this file path: content > bin > images - You can rename these folders here or copy/paste and rename them in step 12.
12. On your desktop create a new folder using alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9) as this will be your Session ID or client password to view the images you just resized. The Session ID is case-sensative. Once this folder is created, copy the 'images' and 'thumbnails' folders from your current export into this new Session ID folder.
13. Upload the entire newly created Session ID folder to your website using your FTP software.
(see our FTP Tutorials for help with FTP software).
Published April 6th, 2010
by Websites and Services Support
Marathon can not fully support CS4 or CS5 since these versions of photoshop do not include the Web Photo Gallery option by default.
However, we have support to guide you in the right direction to get the plug-ins you may need. The available methods for creating Web Photo Galleries (exporting resized images for session proofing) have changed for Adobe's latest Creative Suite version, CS4. Most importantly the Web Photo Gallery option is missing from the default Photoshop CS4 installation. Adobe has provided instructions on how to re-enable the missing options.
NOTE: If you need assistance installing the optional plugins listed below, please contact Adobe.This vendor will know more about their software and have the support for installing their lastest plug-ins as each version of these plug-ins are different. Marathon cannot provide support for the hundreds, if not thousands, of applications and services available to photographers today. We suggest you first do a Web search. Besides contacting the vendor directly, many software providers provide discussion boards or other means of support that you may wish to investigate. We do have another option to resize your images for uploading.
To download the optional plugin files from Adobe, click the link that corresponds to your CS version and operating system:
Detailed descriptions and install instructions are explained in the OptionalPluginsReadMe.pdf that is also included in this download.
Once you have installed the Web Photo Gallery option, please use the following instructions to process and upload your images. Session Uploading Instructions
Published April 6th, 2010
by Websites and Services Support
This tutorial will show you the recommended settings when using Lightroom 2 to export images intended for upload to your website's Session Proofing system.
Your photos must already be in the correct orientation (upright) before beginning the processes below.
1. Open Lightroom.
2. Import your photos by clicking the Import button near the bottom-left corner of the Lightroom window (if they are not already within your Lightroom Library).
3. Select the photos intended for this gallery.
4. Arrange the photos in the order you would like them to appear in the finished gallery using the "filmstrip" at the bottom of the window.
5. Click the Web button at the top-right of the Lightroom window.
6. Choose "Airtight SimpleViewer" near the top-right of the Lightroom window in the Engine section.
7. Scroll down to view the Output settings (a few sections below the Engine section).
8. Change the Large Images Size to 700 px or less.
9. Adjust the Quality to between 60 and 90.
10. Click the "Export" button and choose a location on your computer to save the exported folder of images.
11. When the export is complete (it may take a while depending on the size and number of photographs) find the "thumbs" folder inside the exported folder of images and rename it to "thumbnails".
12. Upload the entire exported folder to your website using your FTP software
(see our FTP Tutorials for help with FTP software).
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