Getting your photos into Viovio!

Zipped & Uploaded Images:

I zipped up my files in ACDSee Photo Manager using the Create Archive feature.

Zipping up my images

• I selected about 5 images - 10 images and tried to keep the size of the zip file to 30 - 50 MB.
• choose Tools | Create Archive and created a zip file of those images. I numbered my zip files, Book1.zip, Book2.zip.
• Repeated this for however many images I needed to do.

Uploading them to Viovio

• Logged into Viovio.
• Click on [my] photos
• Clicked on Create Gallery and made a gallery for the book images.
• Clicked on Upload images, in the Upload Files section, entered in the name of my zip files.
• Made sure that “Add files to these Galleries” that the right gallery was chosen.
• Choose “Don’t Resize” and chose a private security level since I didn’t wish for others to view my images.
• Then click Upload Files.
• Then walk away and do something else for a while.

Note: Viovio only allows 200MB worth of images uploaded. So make sure your total book image sizes is less than this. If not, you may need to upgrade and get more storage.

Viovio Supporter
500 Megabytes
US $25 / annually

Quick things to do in your Viovio Gallery:

Once you images are in the gallery, there a few things I did to get ready.

View your images, by clicking on the appropriate Gallery

Here are 3 things I did to get ready:

Choose Edit:

• Changed the Security Level to private so no one else can see my gallery. Default is public.

Choose Image Order:

• Scroll to the bottom, and choose Re-order gallery by “filename”, the choose Save Changes. If you followed my advice from above, your pages should be ordered correctly now. If not, you need to manually change the position numbers of every page and click Save Changes.

Choose Cover Image:

• Find the cover image, and check that it is a gallery image. This means it will be used for the cover.

• Once done, Save Changes

Okay, all we have to do is create the book and checkout and we’ll do that in the last blog entry. Everything should be ready so this part goes quickly.

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