What are Active Controls ?

Active Controls, like this help button, will assist you to easily navigate this site.    They will not take information from your computer or harm it, nor will they alter your computer settings.

You can identify an Active Control element by a flashing border or a cursor that is shaped like a hand.     This indicates that an action will take place (such-as selecting an image) if you click the mouse.

To permit Active Controls, specify "Allow Blocked Content" in the box that may appear at the top of your screen.   To disable Active Controls, simply depart from this website or close the browser window.

Full Screen Web Browser View

You may enjoy viewing the gallery in "Full Screen" rather than "normal" web browser view mode; which will provide better visual and conceptual detail on the larger screen size.

"Full Screen" mode is a temporary optional setting within the "View" menu of your web browser.  To return the browser to its normal "view", simply move the mouse to the top of the screen and select "Restore" from the drop-down menu.   Some browsers also use the "escape" <Esc> key to restore the menu.

If your web browser has a "zoom" feature, you might also try different "zoom" settings to create the optimal setting.

Wall colours, patterns, and textures

The colour bar at the top of the screen is an Active Control that enables various choices of background.     Any one of a variety of colours may be chosen by placing the mouse upon the colour bar and then clicking in the small square that appears.
The "default" colour is "Plain Black".

Below the colour bar is a series of patterns and textures.
Any colour may be selected in combination with a pattern (such-as pinstripe), or without a pattern (plain).  Patterns are indicated by the light shaded boxes.

Texture selections (such-as stucco) are indicated by darker boxes.   Texture selections temporarily supercede pattern selections.   To disable a texture and return to a colour selection, simply select the "plain" pattern box (or any other light-shaded pattern box).

Viewing Images

After making your selection, pull the browser window down to sort the image thumbnails in the array at the bottom of the screen.

Be patient while waiting for gallery pages to load, and while activating image controls.  Images of artwork are large, and require some additional time to download.  

A choice of three viewing modes is provided; "Slide Show", "Contact Sheet", and "Filmstrip" modes.

The adjacent "Contact Sheet", Filmstrip" and "Slideshow" buttons are always visible at the top left screen.   

While in FIlmstrip mode, select from amongst the thumbnail images in the slider panel at the bottom of the page, and a medium-sized image preview will appear above it.    Clicking that  image will then enlarge it to full-size "Slide Show" view.

"Slide Show" view in full browser screen should give a fairly good represtentation of how the artwork should actually look while hanging on your wall. 

Four active controls will appear in full-size "Slide Show" view.
The dark blue "next' and "previous" buttons move through the gallery one image at a time, whilst the light blue "play" button will automatically display all of the images full-sized in a sequential "slide show" style of presentation.   

When in "play" mode, the light blue "play" button will temporarily disappear and a red "pause" button will appear in its place.  The red pause button flashes to remind you that you are in "play" mode.  Click the pause button to temporarily stop the progress of the slide show at the currnent image. 

If selected, the "exit" button will return to the Filmstrip mode.  The "Filmstrip"  or "Contact Sheet" button may also be selected.

If you do not have a high-speed internet connection, it may be more convenient to browse the image thumbnails exclusively in "Filmstrip" or "Contact Sheet" modes, selecting only individual pieces that interest you the most, rather than opting the automatic "play" feature.

Blabby Blob and Sticky Tack-Note

A semi-transparent "Blabby Blob", containing a description of the artwork, will follow the mouse while it is hovering over an image enlargement.  To make it disappear, simply move the mouse cursor away from the image.

A tack-note will appear when the mouse is clicked over an enlarged image.  The tack-note contains a feature that allows you to change the dimensions of an artwork  image and to obtain a price that is based upon the selected dimensions.

To discard the tack-note, simply click the "X" on the thumbtack.