The easier way to add photos on your gallery is uploading them from your computer. On your admin panel, click on the bottom-left button Add photos.
A window will appear with 3 tabs. The first one is the right : Upload.
Click on Browse photos. Select some photos on your harddrive, you can select more than one to upload them in one time.
When you've finished, you can fill some other informations before the upload.
The maximum size allow to resize photos during the upload. Define a width or a height, or both and PicsEngine will resize the pictures larger than your choice.
It's important to not have large pictures on your gallery to improve the speed download.
Tags to set are the keywords you want add to all the photos. Seperate tags by commas.
Compression quality is the JPG compression quality. 100 is the best quality, 80 is a good one.
Note: if you enabled the original pictures conservation, when visitors want to download pictures, the originals will be provided.
The web-upload is powerful, but perhaps it will be quicker to upload photos via FTP and then import them to your gallery.
Open your FTP client, connect on your server and open the directory /pictures/imports/. If it doesn't exists, create it and give it the write permissions.
Upload photos in this directory. Note: photos names cannot contain specials caracters, accents or spaces. Alphanumerics caracters, and some like . - _ enough.
Go next on your admin panel, click the bottom-left button Add photos and select the tab Import via FTP. You'll have the whole list of the imports directory content.
The same options are available but also the Remove after import option. If this option is checked, all the photos will be erased in imports after the importation.
Note: if you don't know Flickr, it's useless for you.
PicsEngine allow to import photos directly from Flickr. Fill with your username: be careful, Flickr have 2 usernames for each account, try with both if one doesn't work. Only public photos can be imported.