One way to to have your coins and their tags display nicely in the gallery would be to merge the images. The gallery already expects you to merge the images of the obverse and reverse, merging the tag too would not be that much of an additional step.
Hi Joe,
As Jay pointed out above (he posted before I
had a chance to reply), Andrew has already suggested this to me in the past.
There are 2 problems I have with this:
1) Not all of my coin tags are 2 sheets. Some are 3 sheets, and at least one is 4 sheets. Plus, I have the dealer tags sandwiched in between to maintain some sort of
pedigree. In addition to that, some dealers provided me with very old (antique?) tags. Those are also sandwiched in between my handwritten tags. So, in some cases, in addition to the 2 coin photos (which I may merge into 1 photo), I could also have as many as 4-6 more photos. That's not counting the 2 coin photos. The grand total could be as high as 6-8 photos
per coin.
What happens if I have an odd number of photos (like 3 or 5)? How do I merge them all into a uniform square or rectangle? The only solution would be to include a "blank" photo (background only).
2) The more photos I add and merge into that 1
Forum gallery photo, the smaller my coins are going to be in the photo. If I have 6 photos, the coins are going to 1/3 the size of the coins in other members' photos. If I have 8 photos, the coins are going to be 1/4 the size of the coins in other members' photos. Do you see the problem?
And that is bad enough in the single
gallery photo. In the preceding page, where there are photos of dozens of coins to click on, my coins will be so tiny that viewers may not be able to see them. The coin size will be divided by a factor of 3 or 4.
This "solution" will not
work. The only way that I can post my photos in Forum's
gallery (without significantly reducing the coin size in the photo) is if Forum's
software is altered to allow me to download my tag photos directly from my iPhone. But I think that is too much to ask. I think I'm better off just doing my own website.
Plus, in addition to this problem, I never fully resolved the problem of the number and/or arrangement of all my folders. This becomes an issue when someone has 2,000
ancient coins.
Meepzorp