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Ron Goodwin

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I’ve tried using the search facility in the gallery without much success. Not sure what it is conducting the search on, but expected it to be able to pick up on the various categories, etc., that appear in the submission form. Searching for “Portrait”, for instance, results in any type of art - landscape, seascape, still life, etc. Is there any information on what it searches on or the syntax that can be used?

Tessa Gwynne

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I think it’s just for searching for an artist Ron, by name.
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Ron Goodwin

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Thanks Tessa. Makes me wonder why they still bother with the categories in the submission.

Tessa Gwynne

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I must admit I struggle sometimes with completing the submission details in particular the last re style! However you made me look further at this and in fact you can search by entering words such as impressionist, digital, watercolour, etc, most of which give a sensible result, but not all.

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Ron Goodwin

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I'm with you, Tessa, I don't know what style to use as I don't set out to have a specific style. I just leave that one blank. The search criteria I used didn't seem to work very well and maybe it is due to the categories not being selected anyway. With so many 'ready-made/plugin' search engines out there, I'm surprised that a better one wasn't incorporated during the update.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m in agreement about not ticking a box in the style section, I don’t have a clue what to put anyway.