This is a short tutorial on how to use the Lab. But, maybe you are like us and never want to read instructions? Although the Lab has new features and is very different from what you have been used to, we encourage you to give it a try without reading on. Just follow this link: "beta.lomography.com/lab":http://beta.lomography.com/lab - write down all your thoughts and let us know. If you would still like some help, please read on...
This is a short tutorial on how to use the Lab. But, maybe you are like us and never want to read instructions? Although the Lab has new features and is very different from what you have been used to, we encourage you to give it a try without reading on. Just follow this link: beta.lomography.com/lab – write down all your thoughts and let us know. If you would still like some help, please read on…
Bascially there are four menu points:
- Albums
- Selection
- Image
- Upload
Upload
Upload is for uploading images (well, what else?): just hit upload, select some files and wait for them to finish. You can select more than one picture at once.
Albums
In Albums you can select the albums you want to edit. There are two special albums: Trash (all the images which are removed from your albums) and Unsorted (all the images you haven’t moved to an album yet). You can also create new albums here. If you want to edit an album simply doubleclick on it and it will open in Selection. Or select an album by clicking on it – if you want to select multiple albums just hold CTRL (Windows) or APPLE (OSX) to do so. You can even select ranges by clicking on the first album you want to select, holding SHIFT, then clicking on the last album – all albums in between will be selected.
Selection
So to get into Selection view you have to select some albums to work with. In this view all those albums are opened and you can see the images. All images can be sorted within the albums by drag and drop. You can even drag images from one album to the other.
Image
To get into Image view you have to select some images.
The general flow is always from Albums to Selection to Image. Apart from moving the images around you can also apply tags to your selection. If you are in the Albums view and have one album selected, adding the tag “summer” will add this tag to all images within this album. If you are in Selection view and have one or multiple images selected adding the tag “summer” will add this to your selection. In Image view only the currently shown image will receive the new tag. Same goes for cameras, film and location.
How to start?
- Prepare some images you want to upload
- Go to Upload, click the upload button and select some of your images
- Wait until they are uploaded
- Go to Album view and doubleclick the Unsorted album
- Now you should see your images
- Create some new albums to organise your shots, do so by clicking Create Album
- Drag and drop the images to the albums (remember you can select more by holding SHIFT or working with CTRL/APPLE).
- Clicking on the album name will give you the option to rename it
Everything clear? We want to get your feedback on the functionality. Or do you have any ideas on how to improve it? Are there any features you are missing? Bugs? Open questions? Anything else?



105 comments
peter
To make your albums show up in your home you'll have to "make it public" in the Selection view.
tveden
Very nice improvement. One thing, when i select multiple (using ctrl), sometimes images dissapers.
A nice feature could be to be able to select images from multiple folders, when downloading.
vtayeh
I uploaded my first album here and the new features are very easy to use. I love being able to select multiple images at a time and editing them. The sorting feature also very cool, especially when you have a bunch to upload and you can sort them into their own albums later. Super Nice!
larslau
Resizing is kinda slow even when the images have dimension 768 x 512. This could probably be improved...
And a little note: The "Apple"-key is called Command/Cmd. (:
recurving
@larslau: thanks, you are of course right - we will change that. but to me it will always be the apple-key after my french design teacher who always used the phrase "click with finger in the apple" (please imagine with heavy french accent)...
xbalboax
not bad, its alittle tricky at first but i like it
larslau
@recurving: I know... To me it's also the "æble"-key. But on new macs there is no apple anymore :-(
awhisker
Seems good. Shame you can't select a key image!
larslau
How do I delete albums and photos?
tomk32
You forgot to change the link to one's own lomohome in div#account to the new lomohomes.
mubblegum
Is there any way to add photos to an existing album without having to make a whole new album again?
peter
@awhisker: At the moment the key image is the first image of the album.
@larsau: If you select albums/images a "Remove selected albums/images" link appears beloow "All Your Albums"/the album title.
@tomk32: Thanks, should be fixed.
@mubblegum: You can select multiple albums in the Albums view with CTRL/Cmd/Shift click; after switching to the selection view the contained images can be arranged to your wishes.
ananditya
i've uploaded images, but why is there non of them in my home?
mrramsey
drgonzo900
I don't know if anyone has asked this question or not, but how do i move images from the unsorted album to an album that is already created? I can't figure it out. drag&drop doesn't work in the "albums" tab.
annegreat
How can I add a title and description of several photos in an album simultaneously?
breakphreak
tried to upload the images and succeeded
tried to create the new album and succeeded
tried to move the images from "Unsorted" to the new album and not succeeded
they are only draggable in "selection" view (with a single album)
the interface is not intuitive (for me), otherwise I could do it during my 5 first minutes and I simply couldn't
still, assumed that all the rest like it - please explain what am I doing wrong
breakphreak
still, re-checked it - and it does not work - tried to drag and drop the images - in Selection view the new album is displayed only once just when it is created and not later
means that only when I am creating the new album I can drag the images from Unsorted to it and only if the new album was created while I was in "selection".
something is wrong. Peter, would you please explain again what can be done? That's _very_ confusing.
maddyoulook
how do you remove things from the trash, not delete, but move them to another album?
rikkib
How do I remove an empty album?
hatetofakeit
To delete an album select it and look under the All Your Albums title youll see a button.. "delete selected albums" click it and BAM album deleted.
toycamper
_shockwave
olliep64
grifter
I agree olliep64, i just can't move my images from different albums, it just doesn't happen, I am getting a little frustrated with it to be honest.
vstephanie
i moved some images into the wrong album. and now im trying to move it back to another existing album, but its not working! help?
sanalomo
wendalls
Ahhh tricky and frustrating, just wanna throw my computer across the room!!
myvitaminx
fucked-up beta version!
lafawnda
birdsandhorses
treehugger419
When i upload images and then place them into an album they just disappear when i check on the album again. So i then have to upload the pictures again and put them into the album again. Sometimes it doesn't work at all so I just give up.
tnzzz
Haven't been able to get any photos to stay in my albums, they just disappear. Arr.
irbypace
Moving photos only worked for me once. Now they just get deleted.
irbypace
Yep. It's a bad service. It just deleted my pictures for the 5th time. Very annoying.
irbypace
OMG I can't stand it. I just uploaded more images and they are gone after placing them in an album. WTF?
irbypace
Thank goodness everything is working. It's amazing. Im glad it's working so well. Thanks for fixing everything.
ripsta
i think lsi should publish a book
" how to upload photo to beta for dummies "
if the upload method and button are same like the lomohomes
its much better to understand
vtmiller
analogeye
arrrgggh...it keeps telling me my images are too small. even after sizing them to the limit!
jimw08
Does anyone else think the new version is incredibly ugly? Where has the wall gone?! That was my favourite thing about the lomohome :(
knoock357
georgelikesmusic
This is so difficult! I can't figure out how to get pics into albums!
wackogal
ryuudaze
thefrenchnomad
daniwahlers
@ryuudaze to delete: select the photos you want to delete and click on "remove selected photos from this album" right under the album title
daniwahlers
I'm getting a really weird error when I upload some of my photos. I says: "wrong format (jpeg only)" but I'm 100% sure they are jpegs, I actually saved them in every way possible, for web, normal, flat, not flat....and the same error keeps ocurring, does anyone know why this happens and can give me a little insight?
marcela_cuartas
oh god, i hate this, where are all my photos?
this is very frustrating, i think i'm going to say bye to lomography as a comunity,
was nice to meet you, i will miss my old lomohome :´(
cam122093
_fu_
taranoia
rotating feature would be nice for portrait oriented photos, and bring back the lomowall page!
taranoia
rotating feature would be nice for portrait oriented photos, and bring back the lomowall page!
taranoia
rotating feature would be nice for portrait oriented photos, and bring back the lomowall page!
hannahasprey
mygodisafaggot
mygodisafaggot
mygodisafaggot
mygodisafaggot
letsgorebel
ryuudaze
ryuudaze
mishpix
mishpix
drusilla
manue-la
stefpasquini
camerabrain
man, I so miss the old Lomography so bad
nosiaht
hey, i like the way this new stuff is working. but id say it is pretty hard to learn and thats probably because it takes quite sometime for the slower internet users like me (sigh) to have the page fully loaded. and it becomes so much more complicated to learn...
mightymouse
im confused on the panoramic photos. How big do they have to be before you upload them. There should be a special button to push when uploading them so the website will do the work for ya
raw
lomoglam
bleeptricity
ilovemydiana
i do not understand how to move images between albums. im still so comfused.
roc723
anabananaangel
i dont understand how i can add new images to an existing album. doesnt seem to give me an option. trying to do this is harder than i thought, it was way easier before.
thisishuman
roc723
saymawa
so i'm guessing no one has figured out how to move images out from the "unsorted" album.
what a helpful tutorial page. O_o
haschek
unzaunza
rabidshark
How do I get the images to my home page?
kimdaehyun
I uploaded more than hundreds pictures on my lab. If I want to submit a LomoLocation, should I upload images again? I want to use photos I've uploaded before on my lab...
kimdaehyun
I uploaded more than a hundreds pictures on my lab. If I want to submit a LomoLocation, should I upload images again? I want to use photos I've uploaded before on my lab...
kimdaehyun
I uploaded more than a hundreds pictures on my lab. If I want to submit a LomoLocation, should I upload images again? I want to use photos I've uploaded before on my lab...
goldfishy
pawsinart
dreamdistortion
cangia
daylightsecretsyells
my photos arent coming up on my home even when i make it public?
what do i do?
abbym
sirio174
How to delete photos in my TRASH?
vinyl_otter
kalai
atkinson
All good, if simple. I'd like a rotate feature. Also, using a mc, I rotated the images on my local disk and uploaded them, however they are still the wrong way. I think Flickr is a good template as far as features / functions go.
kimdaehyun
I hope that I could rotate my pictures on the lab directly.
kozor
pixie
nickjessop
oriontrail
reflex
a rotating tool would be great
imaguoy
How the heck do I delete photos? I tried every suggested method here and none of them worked! There NEEDS to be an easy delete button.
lamadude
juanperez
gelibee
@juanperez just go to the lab section, choose the photo/photos you want to delete and on the left side bar, you will see change visibility or delete. Hit delete and you're good to go! :)