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The Lightbox (My Favorites)

> The Lightbox is YOUR collection of images. You may add up to 100 images to your lightbox. Landscape Design customers can use this tool to pick out their favorite look and style. Then send the lightbox to a Steck's landscape designer to help formulate a design based on your individual needs and wishes.

• 1) Create a account by clicking the link Sign in / Register at the top
  right of the page.

• 2) Fill out the fields and click submit.

• 3) Check your email you used to sign up with and copy the activation code and click the activation code link.

• 4) Paste the activation code in the field and click submit.
  You are now registered.

• 5) Browse through the gallery and when you see a photo you like click the lightbox square. This will add the photo to your collection of images.

• 6) Once your collection is complete you can now send your lightbox to a
  Steck's designer. Click the "Send lightbox" link. Fill out the fields and submit.

Searching

> We have endeavored to create an easy to search database for our growing collection of landscape images. As you can see there are numerous categories to browse. You can also enter keywords in the search box to narrow your choices. We have embedded keywords into all the image collections to respond to more selected searches. The scope of your search results will be determined by your selection of keywords. Keywords are under the description text on each image detail page.

> Quick Search - By default the system uses "Match at least one keyword" for the quick search function. If you input "rectangle pool" (without the quotes) into the quick search field, then the search function will return results for any media that contain either "beautiful" OR "sunset" in its properties.

The system supports the "AND" and NOT" operands in the quick search function by the use of the plus sign (+) and minus sign (-) respectively in front of the keywords.

• If you input "rectangle +pool" (without the quotes) into the search field, the system will only return results for any media that contain both keywords "rectangle" AND "pool" in its properties.

• If you input "rectangle -pool" (without the quotes) into the search field, the system will return results for any media that contain the keyword "rectangle", but this media can't contain the keyword "pool" in its properties.

• Note: There must not be any spaces between the second keyword and the input operands (+), (-) keywords.

> Advanced Search  - The advanced search function doesn"t use the same algorithms as above. It offers options allowing you to choose which operand you want to use for your searches.

There are three options available.

• Match at least one keyword
  The system will return results for any media that contain either one of the input keywords in its properties.

• Match all keywords
  The system will only return results for any media that contain all input keywords in its properties.

• Match exact phrase
  The system will only return results for any media that contains the exact input keyword phrase in its properties.