RDC Help

Reed Digital Collections

Using RDC

Follow the step-by-step instructions below to learn how to use RDC's features, including advanced searching, downloading, and using galleries and slideshows. 

Download Media

Download an Item

  1. Find the image or video you are looking to download
  2. Click "item" view by clicking on the image or video
    1. This will display the full metadata in the left panel
  3. Click the "Download" button in the upper left action bar at the top of the screen
  4. The browser will download the image to your default download location, typically your downloads folder
To download one or all items in a gallery, navigate to the section "Using Gallery Features" section and follow the instructions for "Downloading a Gallery."

Using Gallery Features

Access My Workspace

  1. To access your workspace, hover over your username in the top right menu navigation bar and click "My Workspace"
  2. In the left panel, you'll find your galleries or folders of saved images
  3. To view a specific gallery older, click on it and the active folder will become bolded

 

 

Adding Images

  1. You can save images by selecting the "star" icon, but before you save an image, you need to select an active gallery
  2.  Select or create a new gallery by clicking "My Workspace" located in the menu navigation bar
  3.  After your gallery is selected, then you can click the "star" icon to save an image to the active gallery
  4. Note the "star" icon will be green once it's been saved to your gallery

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  1. If you clicked on the item and are in the full record, locate the star in the menu navigation bar
  2. Click the "star" icon to add the item to your gallery

Copy Images within a Gallery

  1. To copy an item in the gallery, hover over the image you want to copy
  2. Click on the duplicate icon in the upper right of the thumbnail
  3. A duplicate item will appear next to the original

Download a Gallery

  1. When you're viewing a gallery you can choose to download the entire gallery or single images in the gallery
  2. To download the entire gallery, click the "Download" button in the upper right action bar at the top of the gallery

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  3. To download a single image in your gallery, hover over the image and click the check box in the top left corner of the image thumbnail 
  4.  Then click the ‘Download’ button in the upper right action bar at the top of the gallery 
  5.  You'll be presented with a pop-up window that asks you to make a selection for image size preference
    1. Select “Original” to get the largest size file
    2. Select “Presentation” for images that are 1280 pixels
  6. Once you make your selection, the browser will download the image to your default download location, typically your downloads folder
  7. The “Download” button will change into a “Preparing Download” button and then will change

Copy or Move Images to a Gallery

  1. Use the "Item Actions" drop-down and click on "Copy or Move to a Gallery"
  2. An alert box with the selected image(s) will appear in the browser
  3. Select a gallery destination from the dropdown menu for your selected item(s)
  4. Click the "Copy" or "Move" button

     

     

Reorder Images in a Gallery

  1. Custom sort images in your gallery by hovering over the image you want to reorder
  2. Click and hold the image, and drag the image to a new position 

     

Remove Images from a Gallery

  1. Select the gallery you wish to move or copy items from
  2. Select images by clicking the checkbox that appears when you hover an image thumbnail.
  3. Click the "Item Actions" button in the upper right action bar at the top of the gallery
  4. Select "Remove from Gallery" to remove the image selected

Share Your Gallery

  1. Select the gallery you'd like to share, then from the default view click the hyperlink icon
  2. An alert box with the gallery link will appear in the browser
  3. Copy the link, then click ok. The link to the gallery will be on your computer's clipboard and can be pasted into another application or program such as your syllabus, website, email, etc.
  4. Note: the link itself will direct a user to your gallery in Lightbox view

Delete a Gallery

  1. Open the gallery you wish to delete
  2. Click the "Gallery Actions" dropdown underneath the gallery name and select "Delete Gallery"
  3. A pop-up prompt will appear, click "OK" to delete that gallery permanently

Using Slideshow Features

View a Gallery Slideshow

  1. Navigate to your gallery
  2. Click the "Play" button to start the slideshow view
    1. This will begin with displaying the first image in your gallery

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  1. Hover and click over the image where you would like the slideshow to start
  2. The slideshow view will open starting with the image you selected

Display Basic Image Metadata

  1. From the lightbox view click on the thumbnail of the image you’d like to view or hit the "Play" button located in the bottom slideshow menu bar
  2. This will take you to a slideshow view of the images
    1. You can use the directional arrow keys to navigate through the images
  3. To view basic image metadata, click on the icon of a circle with the letter "i" (info)
    1. This will open the metadata panel at the bottom of the screen
  4. To close the panel, click the icon of a circle with the letter "i" (info)
  5. To return to view all of the image thumbnails, click the grid icon located in the bottom slideshow menu bar

Side-by-Side Image Comparison

  1. To compare two images at a time in slideshow view, click the 2-column button ("split view") at the bottom of the screen
  2. Each side of the screen will display an image view that can be operated independently

Return to My Workspace

  1. At the bottom of the slideshow menu bar, click the left arrow icon to return to "My Workspace."