Help:Faceting Designs

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This page will guide you through the required actions to post a design on the Gemology Project.

Create an account & Log in

You need to create an account which you can do by filling in a request through the contact page. Your request will be processed as quickly as possible but please allow us some time to do so. Normally you should be able to access your account within 48 hours. You will receive an email containing your username and password from one of the administrators.

Once you have received your login details you can proceed to the Log in page. A link to this page is provided in the top left of your screen (Internet Explorer 8.0 requires the compability mode to be enabled).

Preparing the design

Programs required:

Preperation of the design: step by step

  1. Make sure you have the required programs installed on your computer

Turning the .gem file into a pdf:

  1. Open the design in Gemcad
  2. click 'File' and then 'Print'
  3. Select 'PrimoPDF' as your printer
  4. Click 'OK'
  5. After a few seconds PrimoPDF will pop up:


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  1. select a destination for the pdf (red arrow)
  2. click 'create pdf' (blue arrow)

You now have the design in pdf format in a folder of your choice

Turning the pdf into a jpeg of reduced size:

  1. Open the pdf in Photoshop
  2. Click 'image'
  3. Click 'image size'
  4. Reduce the image size to 800 pixels in width
  5. Save the file as jpeg in your designated folder ensuring the image size doesn't exceed 150kb by adjusting the quality to 9 or 8.

You have now created an uploadable image.

Uploading the .jpg and .gem files to the Gemology Project:

  1. Log into the Project using your username and password
  2. Click 'upload file':


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At the upload page you are asked to fill in two fields:

  1. The source. Click on the button indicated by the red arrow saying 'bladeren' (dutch for 'browse')
  2. select the jpg file and click 'open'
  3. Now fill in the summary field. Here you can add text that will accompany your design. Two required bits of information are: Name of the design and name of the author. If you want to write more you are more then welcome to.
  4. Once you are done click 'upload file'


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If the file is larger then 150kb you will get a warning page. If it is only slightly over you can click 'ignore warning' and continue.


  1. The file will be parked on a page of it's own.
  1. repeat the process with the .gem file. This file will be parked onto a page of its own as well.

You can stop here. An editor will see that you have added the files and will create a design page for you. Alternatively you can take it all the way and create a design page yourself. Below will follow a tutorial on how to: