TheBeachcats.com FAQs (frequently-asked questions)

The Members Gallery is a free service of TheBeachcats.com. You must be logged in with your member username and password in order to create an album and upload photos, but that too is free!

All submissions to TheBeachcats.com are governed by our Terms of Service.

Two ways

1. Upload to an existing album:
Login using your member username and password. Browse the albums in the members gallery, and pick the one that most closely matches the subject of your photos. To add a single picture with a title and long description Click On "add photo" and submit the form. To add up 10 photos at once with just short titles (or filenames) Click on "add photos". NOTE: If you are running "popup stopper" software or have JavaScript disabled, you will not be able to add photos unless you allow them for TheBeachcats.com.

2. Create a "New nested album" of your own.
For more control over the look and description of your photos, you can choose to create your own album. Creating your own album gives you control over the album title, album description, background color, text color, link color, border size and color etc..

Steps to creating your own album and uploading to it:

Personal albums should be added to the "Beachcats People" album. Use your own real name for the Album Title. If you have a collection of photos which all fit well into one of the other main albums, go ahead and create an album within that category as well.

1. Login to TheBeachcats.com using your member username and password.
   
2. click on the "Beachcats People" album thumbnail or name.
   
3. Click on "new nested album" link at the top right of the album.
   
4. Click on the "properties" link and use the pop-up box to name the album and select options. (change only the Album Title if you are unsure what to do here)
   
5. Scroll to the bottom of the box and click on "Apply".
   
6. Click on "add photos" and use the pop-up box to upload up to 10 pictures at a time. NOTE: If you are running "popup stopper" software or have JavaScript disabled, you will not be able to add photos unless you allow them for TheBeachcats.com.
   
   Once you have added photos to your own album, you can use the "Edit Photo" drop down box below each thumbnail to:
   
   
   • Edit the caption, rotate the photo (handy because you can upload pics right out of your digital camera and then rotate them online)
     
   • Highlight the photo (make it the one that represents the album)
     
   • Rearange the photos in your album
     
   • Hide the photo from view
     
   • Delete the photo.
   
   
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First, you must register for a free membership on TheBeachcats.com to be able to upload photos.

Rules for acceptable use of the photo album:

1. Beachcats related pictures only, TheBeachcats.com will be the sole judge of what is related to sailing beachcats. If you have questions, use the contact form.
   
2. This is not a porn site. Any abuse of the photo album in that manner will dealt with harshly.
   
3. Number two doesn't mean all nudity is banned, use descretion. If you have ANY question about what is acceptable use the contact form to request a ruling BEFORE posting the photos.
   
4. Pictures may be uploaded in jpg, gif, png, avi, mpg, mpeg, wmv, mov formats. Yes, you can upload (small) movies too!
   
5. Max file sizes for still images: Unlimited, the server will properly resize your large pictures for you, so if you don't have (or want to learn how to use) photo editing software, you can upload pictures straight from your digital camera or photo disk.
   
6. Max file sizes for movies: Movies are not resized, so please keep uploads under 2mb. If you have large movies you would like to share, use the contact form to contact TheBeachcats.com.
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As creator of the "artistic material" you hold the copyright to your images, and that does not change when you share them with TheBeachcats.com. As copyright holder you grant to TheBeachcats.com free use of your images. This includes but is not limited to:

• Displaying the images on TheBeachcats.com or affiliates of TheBeachcats.com.
  
• Using the images to create other works. (such as thumbnails)
  

Change the album title and description by using the "properties" selection on the drop-down administration list inside the album.

• The maximum size allowed to be stored in the photo galleries is 1280 pixels on a side. So 1024 x 1280 or 1280 x 1024 or even 1280 x 1280 would upload without resizing the original.
  
  
• If the image you are uploading is larger than 1280 pixels on either side, it is automatically resized down to fit this maximim. Keep in mind there is also a maximim total upload size of 10mb, so if you try to upload 5 pictures of 3mb each from your digital camera, it won't work, you will need to upload them one at a time. For very large pictures (over 1mb each) you will get better results by resizing the pictures yourself closer to the size limit before you upload.
  
  
• At the time the image is uploaded, two additional images are created for browsing, the thumbnail, and the intermediate image that is used in slide shows and when using the "next" link inside albums. The size of the thumbnails and browse images are set by the album owner in "properties", usually to 150 pixels for thumbs and 640 pixels for the browse image.
  
  
• When you upload pictures to TheBeachcats.com photo album, keep in mind that this is not meant to be secure lifetime storage for your pictures. If you have pictures that are important to you, be sure and make local copies and back them up yourself. Otherwise a server or software failure could cause you to lose images.
  

Just go the your album and copy and paste the URL from the address bar into your email. The link will be very long and might break in email, so you might consider using the Tiny URL service at http://www.tinyurl.com. You can copy the url into their form and it will be converted into a very short URL that won't break in email.