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Organizing and choosing which images to add to your portfolios can seem like daunting task. Whether you’re a photographer, an artists, or an art gallery with various artists, it may seem difficult to choose the amount of portfolio galleries necessary to showcase all of your best work. With some planning and organizing, your images and portfolio galleries will begin to take shape before you know it! Here are some steps that we have found helpful to get you started:

• Categorize your work before uploading to galleries

This first step is sometimes overlooked when starting off your website. If you’re able to categorize your artwork or images into categories, portfolios will soon develop. For example, if you are a wedding photographer, you may choose to organize your weddings based on the bride and groom’s last name. You may also choose to sort them by season, location, or year. Whatever means you choose to sort your images, ensure that you have a cohesive system in place on your site.

• Bulk uploading your images onto portfolios

Once you are able to organize your work on your computer, bulk uploading will become easier. This allows for a multitude of images to be uploaded to your website’s gallery/portfolio at a time.

1. Once you have added the “Portfolio” page, click to add a new block. Choose “Image Gallery”.

2. Once added, choose the “Select from computer” tab and select the images you’d like to upload to the portfolio.

3. Once ALL images have been uploaded, refresh your browser. Some pictures may not be in the same order as they were on your computer. You can click and drag the images to organize them as you’d like.

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• Adding image details

Adding image details can help index your work in a more organized way. Attributing the correct information will also help search engines pick up on what your image is related to and will help explain what you’re trying to show the world. Ultimately, these simple steps will help boost your images’ SEO.

1. Select the eye icon next to your image

2. Add all image details needed

• Title – Name of your work
• Description – Short explanation of the work (viewers will see as a hover/pop-up on most browsers)
• Tags – Helps organize all of your images into a sort of filling system on your “Image Library”
• Photo Credit – Helps attribute credit to the photographer
• Photo Credit URL – Links viewers to the website of the photographer or rightful owner of the work (if you are the owner, you can leave blank)

• Adding hyperlinks and deleting images

If you would like to hyperlink your image to a specific website, you can do that through the “hyperlink” icon. In order to delete an image, you can select the “trash can” icon.

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You can find all of the images you have uploaded to your liveBooks website builder through the “Image Library” tab in your “Content” section. You can use the “Filter images” tool to sort through image tags (i.e.: if you tagged “Smith Wedding” in the “Tags” section of the image, you would type this into the Filter images box to see all of your images with this specific tag).