10I want to document my work with photos

Add photos, set a primary image, reorder, and add captions

Before you start
1
Open the Photos tab
A project photos tab in the browser, showing ten photos with their captions
The same tab on a phone, with the primary photo marked

Open your project and tap Photos. Every picture of the piece sits here in one grid, with the Primary one badged. Each photo has a button in its corner for the things you can do to it.

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2
Add a photo
An empty photos tab offering Take Photo and Choose from Gallery

Take Photo opens the camera; Choose from Gallery opens your photo library, where you can pick several at once. A project with no photos yet says Add Your First Photo and offers the same two buttons.

Tip: Photos are compressed on the way up so the upload is quick, but with enough quality left to zoom into your stitches afterwards.
3
Look at one properly
A photo open full screen with its caption, copyright line, zoom level and thumbnail strip

Tap any photo and it fills the screen. Pinch or scroll to zoom - the percentage in the corner tells you how far in you are - and the strip along the bottom moves you between photos. The play button runs them as a slideshow, which is a pleasant way to see a long project from cast-on to bind-off.

4
Put them in the right order
The reorder screen, saying the first photo becomes the primary one
A photo menu with Reorder Photos, Move Down and Delete Photo

From a photo's menu, Reorder Photos opens a screen where you drag them into the order you want, and Move Up / Move Down nudge a single photo one place without opening anything. Progress shots in order and the finished piece last is the usual arrangement - though the first photo is the one everyone sees, so many people put the best one there instead.

5
Write a caption
The edit photo information dialog with a caption field and a copyright notice field

In the full-screen view, the pencil beside the caption opens Edit Photo Information: a Caption of up to 500 characters and a Copyright Notice of up to 100. Captions are what make a project readable a year later - "after blocking", "sleeve detail", "before I ripped it back".

Tip: Captions are public on Ravelry, so this is a good place for the things other makers want to know: the modification you made, the yarn you substituted, how it behaved after washing.
6
Choose the photo that represents the project
A photo menu with Make Primary among the options

A photo's menu offers Make Primary. The primary photo is what appears beside your project in lists, in search results and on other people's screens, so it is worth picking deliberately - usually the finished piece, in daylight, on a plain background.

Tip: Dragging a photo into first place on the reorder screen makes it primary too - the screen says so. Either way works.
7
Blur faces before you share

A finished-object photo often has a person in it, and Ravelry is public. Turn on Auto-blur faces as you add photos, or use Blur Faces on one you already have. The faces are found and blurred on your own phone - nothing is sent anywhere to be analysed - and you see the result before anything is uploaded.

On phone and tablet: face blurring needs the camera-side processing that only the iPhone, iPad and Android apps have. The browser cannot do it.
8
Crop from the full-size original

Cropping a photo that is already on Ravelry would normally cost you resolution, because you would be cutting into the copy on screen. Edit from High Resolution, in a photo's menu, fetches the full-size original first, so the crop comes out of the whole photograph. Also phone and tablet only - in the browser the app tells you so rather than quietly giving you a smaller picture.

Available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and web at app.stash2go.com

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