Uploading a Deviation

Uploading a Deviation

Please Be patient...The images are very good quality and may take a while to upload. If you don't want to sit around and wait for them to load, you're perfectly welcome to do something else while you wait, it won't affect the process at all [Though it may slow down your computer a bit...]

For those of you who don't know, deviations are basically files. You know, art. Right then! Let's get started!

First of all, we'll need to get you logged in!


This is pretty much the easiest step. You just enter your username in the "Username" box, and your password in the "Password" box, then press the log in button. If things seem squished together, all you need to do is stretch the window out horizontally until all those little buttons and whatnot get themselves sorted out.

After you've gotten yourself logged in, then it's time to actually start submitting! On the right hand side, under your username, there should be some links, options, if you will. You want the one called "Submit Deviation".


If you're observant, you will notice there is some text and an avatar near my username [Yes, this is MY account.] Don't worry about that right now, we'll get to it later. For now, click the link and a new page will come up.

Congratulations! You are now on the right page to start submitting!

First of all you put in a title. Anything you like, it doesn't matter, but some things, like exclimation marks and slashes are not allowed. Don't worry though, if you do something wrong, the system will tell you when you click the submit button [Which I have a picture of at the end of the tutorial].

After you've put in a name, then it's time to choose the category. You're not allowed to submit anything without putting it in a category. Don't worry, it's easy! First click on the little "Choose..." button under "Category"

A window should pop up.

Since I'm uploading a photograph, I want the photography category. My photo is of some trees, so I'll pick the "Animals, Plants & Nature" category, then it gives me even more options. I'm going to pick "Flowers & Plants"


Now you can press "OK" and the category choosing window will close, but look! It now tell you what category you have chosen.

Great! Now it's time to "Add a File", meaning your telling DeviantART where to get the file to show to everyone.

Now go to wherever you saved the image [You know, picture, file you want to upload] and press "Open"


It might be slightly different on Windows [I'm using a Macintosh] but the general idea is the same.

Now that the hard part's over and done with, we can move to the fun part. It's time to add your own comments and tags, which are words which have to do with your deviation. They should be seperated by spaces. You can put anything you want into "Artist's Comments"

Next is setting comments. You can set it to anything you want. I personally like "Discourage Criticism" because I like comments, but not negative ones. If you don't want comments, pick "Disable Comments"

Now all that's left to do is press the "Finish" button. Make sure you don't press "Make Print", that's defenitely not what you want right now [maybe never]

Way to go! You have just submitted a Deviation!

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