I recently pinpointed the error in my online gallery. Actually, I pinpointed how to make the upload work but I didn’t particularly fix the problem. The gallery program I use (Gallery 2) has a lovely feature where I can place a watermark on my images, thus preventing unwanted activity – if you know what I mean. However, it seems the program does not like to actually apply the watermark. If I have the setting turned on to apply a watermark at time of upload, the program has a fatal error and will not upload anything.
In order to get my newest photos up, I disabled the watermark feature and hello! upload completed. Then I went to apply the watermark on each image and the program still rejects the feature with a lovely error message. I tried several image formats, despite the fact that my .png file was approved by the software company, including a nasty .gif . No luck! I will have to apply my own watermark to each image I upload, which will be a large pain in my big left toe.
However, it seems that over 50% of the images I uploaded weeks ago are not even visible to the public! In a way, this is fine as I will have to apply my new watermark system before final upload anyway. But how incredibly frustrating that I’ve been thinking my work was displayed to the public, and verily it was private!
I am certain, given the time, I could hunt down the coding error that must be causing the watermark issue but I don’t have the time to shift through that many lines of code for one little issue. I will just have to deal with it. As of now, I am disappointed in the software and wish I had the time to code my perfect version. Alas, I don’t have the time.
Frustrated,
Kristina
