Using the Picture Library

The resulting library will be empty, and the uploading process is similar to what was covered for the document library in Lesson 5, "Document Library Basics." To upload a single document, simply click the Add Picture button in the toolbar in the Picture Library page (listed as AllItems.aspx in the URL address) and then browse for the file.

If you have Office 2003 installed and want to upload multiple files, the process is a little different because SharePoint will open the Microsoft Office Picture Manager program to allow you to choose multiple files.

NOTE

If you don't have Office 2003 installed, you won't see the option to upload multiple files.

Figure 6.2 shows the interface when you click Add Picture, then choose the Upload Multiple Files option from the Add Picture page (the Upload.aspx page in the URL address).

Figure 6.2. Upload multiple images using Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Several things are worth covering briefly in the Picture Manager, as numbered in the figure:

1.	To select multiple image files, you need to hold the Ctrl key and click each file. In this figure, the three images have been selected, as evidenced by the gray borders around the image previews.
2.	If the folder doesn't show up in the Picture Shortcuts area, you may need to click Add Picture Shortcuts and find the directory that contains the image files.
3.	Clicking the Upload settings option Send picture optimized for viewing on the Web can save a great deal of time, if the quality of the image isn't that critical. In the case of these three sample images, the total transfer size was 9.8MB originally, but it went down to 35.9KB when the optimized option was selected.
4.	Some editing tools are made available when you click the Edit Pictures button in the toolbar. These include Brightness and Contrast, Color, Crop, Rotate and Flip, Red Eye Removal, Resize, and Compress Picture.
5.	Finally, once you have the images selected, you can click Upload and Close.

Once the images have been uploaded, you may have to click Go back to "Team Photos" (or the name of your picture library). You'll then see something like what's shown Figure 6.3, with the images displayed in the Thumbnails view.

Figure 6.3. The picture library's All Items view.