You don’t have to be a geek to use Zapplication.

This is the first in a sev­eral part series around dig­i­tal sub­mis­sions to art fairs. The series will begin with an intro to  the Zap­pli­ca­tion process in sim­ple easy to under­stand terms. This first part is sim­ply to get you started by show­ing you how to set up an account, log in and start upload­ing your pho­tos. I’ll also briefly cover show applications.

The next part of the series will go a lit­tle deeper and explain some of the guide­lines and stan­dards described on the Zap­pli­ca­tion site. Other parts of the series will dis­cuss more tech­ni­cal issues like image prepa­ra­tion, hav­ing work pho­tographed etc.

So lets get started…

The screen illus­trated above is the log in screen, for now we are going to assume you are new and need to cre­ate an account. If you are a new user sim­ply click on the but­ton in the lower right hand cor­ner and you will be taken to the fol­low­ing screen:

This screen asks you to agree with the terms and con­di­tions for use of Zapp…click on the “yese, I agree” but­ton and you will be taken to this screen:

Click where it says “click here to reg­is­ter with Zapp” (right above the lit­tle hand curser in the image). This will take you to the pro­file page where you enter your infor­ma­tion, that page looks like this:

Fill all of the infor­ma­tion that applies to you and when you are done click the “Reg­is­ter Now” but­ton in the lower left cor­ner of the form. The image above doesn’t show it  because you will have to scroll down and I only cap­tured the upper part of the form. After you do this you’ll be taken to your “My Zap­pli­ca­tions” page.

When you have done this you can then begin upload­ing your images. I’ll be cov­er­ing how to size your images and trans­late the tech­ni­cal jar­gon found on their Man­age Image pages. For now tho we are going to assume you have your images ready for upload. So with your images ready just click tthe “MANAGE IMAGES” link in the mid­dle of the page.

This page gives links that dis­cribe image prep and man­age­ment which I’ll cover in future parts. For now just click on one of the “click to add image but­tons”. Unfor­tu­nately from here on out you will need to have your pai­tience in full gear because it will be slow (depend­ing on your inter­net connection).So when you click the but­ton you will be taken to the fol­low­ing page that asks you to inter all of the appro­pri­ate info regard­ing your submission…

To upload an image you will need to click on “Browse” but­ton at the top of the page. When you click the but­ton you will be taken to your computer’s file/folder tree which will look like this (if you are on a Mac, Win­doz will be similar).

you will need to nav­i­gate to the loca­tion of your images, as you can see on the image above by fol­low­ing the gray high­lights to the blue one where images are stored. Once you have got­ten to the right folder select the image you want depend­ing on whether you are on a mac or PC you may be able to pre­view the images by click­ing on them as shown below.

As you can see when the image is clicked the “open” but­ton  becomes live (for Mac not sure about the other OS), click that but­ton to upload that image.

NOTE: Make sure you fill every­thing in before you click the “Add Image ” but­ton!!! If you don’t you will end up hav­ing to do every­thing over again…I told you to hold your tongue!!

You can upload as many as 40 images if you have a few days to do so, other wise I would sug­gest around 6–8 includ­ing your booth shot. This will give you some choices when it comes to select­ing images for shows. So breath deeply and think about how fun this is… after you have all you images uploaded you can click on the “Man­age images” tab and taaadaaa your very own image gallery appears.

Now you can get up from your com­puter shake it off, take a walk or what­ever makes you relax. The next part of this series will be sub­mit­ting all of these good­ies to shows.

So stay tuned for the next install­ment… Oh and at the end of the series I will be putting every­thing together for you to download.

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