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To open your own page FREE:

1) At Create your Page create a sign-in and password - write it down

2) Fill in the profile page

	Your name or alias
	Scale
	Name of Layout
	The name of your best photo, name only, no path, and .jpg example= (mybestphoto.jpg)
	Description up to 200 words text only
	No active html links. A non active link to your web is allowed and an active email is allowed but not recommended. You can have phone numbers, address, etc if you wish. No html is allowed.

3) Sign in to Managers desk (Have a sign-on)

4) Go to New Photo and load one image.

5 Go to Update/Add/New and load the remaining images to a maximum of 70. You must delete photos if you have 70 before adding new. More than one page (additional sign-in) is allowed for different scales and construction and complete.

6) You can reload the same image name (to update picture) or add new ones from Update/Add/New Photo

7) Delete images from the delete photo option

8) You can edit your Profile from managers desk for different best photo or change text. You can also add additional text on construction information.

9) From managers desk you can open a second window to check page for look.

10) You can have more than one page (different sign-on) for different scales or construction and complete.

11) Pages that have no photos for 5 days will be deleted.

13) There is an additional text box for 500 words for construction or more info which becomes available after the site is open and a mid page text box for dividing photos top and bottom like construction at top and finished at bottom.

12) You can arrange the photos on your detail page by sort photos in managers desk. 0,1,lowest number = top 70,highest number = bottom or multiple photos at 1 will be higher than multiple photos at 3. The default is 0.

13) You can add individual text per photo, limit 250 characters, (use special characters with care, they might not work) which will show on the SLIDE SHOW.

14) Modelers are arranged on the summary page by quantity and quality of photos, not by date opened. When you open a page has no bearing on position.

Used our Backdrops??

We give a 10% cash payback on the purchase price of our backdrops for pages here that show our backdrops clearly. Limited to BackDrops and Backgrounds only, not blemishes, EB scenes or Ezkut buildings or clouds, or samples. Limit one payback / customer and limited to $100 payback. Contact us if you have questions.

Contact -

1-800-540-1708 ext 11. (Backdrop Warehouse) If there is a problem with the program., or you need help with sign-on or usage.

or email (change replacethis to 4help) replacethis@myrrlayout.com

About images:

There are three settings for jpg images. All 3 are independently adjustable.

1) Physical size in pixels or inches

For this site around or about 900 p wide x 600 p high is good

2) Resolution in pixels per inch ppi

72 ppi is standard for the web

3) Compression

Use high compression or low quality

We recommend an image aspect of about 900 pix wide x 600 pix high at 72 ppi, jpeg only which means the extension MUST be .jpg not .jpeg or .gif or .bmp or JPG .

Try to make your photos close to this aspect otherwise they will be smaller and not fill the available space. It only takes a few seconds to adjust the size. Also try to get clear, well lighted photos. No advertisements or promotions allowed. We can remove photos that are other than your layout or promote a product.

To get good depth-of-field and sharp image, you need plenty of even lighting, a high f-stop (f16, f22) and a tripod.

An optimum size to load is 900 pix wide x 600 pix high x 72 ppi (74kb) low quality setting on jpg check this . Recommended file sizes are 40 - 80kb, maximum size 100kb.

For larger expanded images follow the procedure below (for web servers only) if you load from a PC this is not for you.

1) On your server, copy all the images to be uploaded to a different temporary folder.

2) Using whatever software you have to compress the jpg image, make images under the 100kb limit at the approximate aspect of 900p x 600p.

3) From our manager''s desk, upload all your photos

4) Copy the original jpg photos that are over 100kb from the temporary folder to the folder just uploaded, overwriting all the smaller images. The file names and folder must remain unchanged.

5) Any updates will require the same procedure.

Crop images that are high and narrow or of a much different aspect.

Most digital cameras come with photo manipulation packages. Your operating system may have the necessary Photo program. A good, reasonably priced editor is PhotoShop Elements by Adobe (not to be confused with PhotoShop also by Adobe). This is available on-line like ( http://www.ebuyer.com USA or UK pricing) for around $80 or at COSCO and other retailers. There are many other editors but you get what you pay for. Tutorial on Photoshop Elements

Other editors like LITE version http://www.reasoft.com/products/reacompressor

and http://www.reaconverter.com

Backdrop Warehouse does not recommend an editor and takes no responsibility as to their use and results. Links are for your reference only.

Be sure to save the new photo as a new name. Don''t overwrite the original, you can''t get it back.

Also jpg is a lossy format. Always start from the original. Each copy loses detail.

On file names - do not use special characters (&%$#'@)," only _ underscore is useable. Do not use spaces. The computer cannot handle space and will change to %20. Do not use .jpeg. This is true on all computers worldwide, web, home.

Good examples: myphoto.jpg my_photo.jpg more_my_photos.jpg

Bad examples; my photo.jpg myphoto&more.jpg myphoto.jpeg my(photo).jpg myphoto.JPG myphoto's.jpg

More detailed information on .jpg

More detailed information on resizing and resizing programs.

More detailed information on photographing your layout.