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Registering for an account allows you to save your work and preferences, search external media, create Media Groups and Presentations, customize your settings, create annotations, and upload your own content.
Upon registration you can select default viewing settings. These settings (thumbnail size and number of thumbnails per page) will stay intact each time you login until you change them.
Upon registration an Active Media Group will automatically be created, titled "My First Media Group". This group will be private until you choose to change it's properties.
Your user settings will also determine your default collections. You can view other collections than these as you browse by selecting them from the Collections page, but each time you login you will by default be viewing the collections selected here.
Create a user account in the LUNA Viewer:
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Edit Settings and Defaults
To personalize and edit your User Settings, click on the Edit Settings/Defaults icon 
at the top of the page after log-in.
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Client Side Effects: Which option is best for me? When you register "Minimal Animations" is selected by default and can easily be changed to "Full Animations". The “Full Animations” option requires slightly more CPU’s (central processing units) which could slow performance down a bit if, for example, you had a lot of images in the LUNA Workspace. If you feel the performance of LUNA has slowed down due to this change, simply change it back to "Minimal Animations". |
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Default Collections
Select from the collection list in the user settings which collections you would like to access each time you login to LUNA .
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The LUNA Commons ( www.lunacommons.org ) contains additional free content from other LUNA collections. The media in these collections is available for you to use in your Media Groups and Presentations .
Active Media Group
A Media Group allows you to save select media into a group for later use, or to share with others. As you browse LUNA and select media to save into a Media Group , you'll be saving this media into your Active Media Group .
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In the example below the Help Tip will appear every time you perform an Advanced Search, create a Media Group, or create a presentation.
