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Articles, tutorials and projects for the business side of digital art and licensing your art.

Create an Album and Set Permissions - Gallery 2
How to create an album in Gallery 2 and set permissions.

Customized the Gallery 2 Matrix Theme
How to change the default template for Gallery 2 and set the background graphic.

Customizing the Header and Footer for WebCards
How to customize the header and footer for the WebCards ecards system.

Customizing the WebCards Send Form
In this tutorial we will change the default send form for the WebCards ecard software.

Gallery 2 Album Top Level Settings
How to set Gallery 2 Top Level groups and permissions for the default album.

Gallery 2 Custom theme.inc file
Creating a custom theme for Gallery 2 is an easy way to add an online portfolio to your website.

Gallery 2 Groups and Users
How to create groups and user for the Gallery 2 software.

Gallery 2 Header and Footer
Now that we have our custom background graphic in place for our Gallery 2 portfolio, we can move on to changing the default header and footer for our own.

Gallery 2 Thumbnail Manager Module Plugin
How to install the Thumbnail Manager Module plugin for Gallery 2.

Gallery User Permissions
How to set user permissions for a single user without a group in Gallery 2.

Gallery2 Control Panel
After installing Gallery2, you will want to login as Administrator. As you can see, the Control Panel isn't too intimidating.

How to Install Gallery Software
During my search for the best gallery/portfolio software for my website, I discovered Gallery, an open source software licensed under the GPL.

Install WebCards Ecard Software
Installing WebCards ecard software is easy with the built-in installer.

Reduce the Width of the WebCards Layout
We need to reduce the width of the WebCards layout to fit the size of a Facebook Fan Page.

Reducing the Width of the WebCards Send Form
How to move the send form down below the full sized preview in the WebCards template.

Removing the Extras from WebCards Layout
In this tutorial, we will remove the calendar and search cloud from WebCards.

Structuring Your Portfolio
Now we can begin setting up the structure for our portfolio. The first question you need to ask is what are the main purposes for this portfolio.

Templates for Gallery 2 Software
The open source Gallery 2 software has a very simple default template. This will make it easy for us to customize that template to match the rest of our website.

Universal Color Management Problem
There are so many monitors, software and operating systems that universal color management or monitor calibration is almost impossible. Gamut warning in Photoshop.

WebCard Template System
The WebCards template system makes it easy to customize the look of your ecards site.

WebCards as a Facebook Fan Page
Now that we have finished customizing the WebCards system on your website server, we are ready to add it to the Facebook Fan page.

WebCards as Facebook Fan Page
Now we will begin to configure WebCards to work on Facebook.

WebCards Custom Side Menu
We will customize the WebCards side menu for our Facebook Fan Page.

WebCards Ecard Software
What better way to advertise your talents than by giving away some free samples and allowing your friends to pass them on to their friends as ecards with the WebCards software.

WebCards Ecard Software Ecard Preview
In this tutorial, we will customize the WebCards render_card.html template. This template is used to displays the ecard in two places.

WebCards General Settings
The general settings for the WebCards software will control the overall ecard process.

WebCards Language File Changes
We will continue to customize the WebCards system by making some changes to the text on the pages.

Your Online Portfolio
There are many types of software that can be used to build an online portfolio. They range from a simple gallery to an e-commerce catalog software.