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Photo Gallery Software |
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| A Gallery is a collection of photo
albums. You can have as many Galleries as
you want on your web server. Each gallery
contains as many photo albums as you want.
Configuration of Gallery and administration
of the photo albums is done entirely via an
intuitive, web interface. You don't need
special privileges on your webserver to
install, configure and maintain Gallery.
It's free, and we (the Gallery team) support
it. Gallery works with several different
image processing toolkits and is available
in over 30 languages! |
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| Administration |
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| Installation/Configuration Wizard |
| Gallery comes with a handy web based
configuration wizard. This wizard helps to
make sure that your web server and operating
system are set up correctly . It also allows
you to configure many of Gallery's options
while determining as much as it can from
your environment . The wizard lastly creates
and admin account for you to administer your
Gallery with. Later on if you want to change
settings, you can run the configuration
wizard and make changes without having to
take down your Gallery. |
Here are some of the features that you
can customize in the configuration wizard:
- Image Magick or NetPBM - pick which
image manipulation package you have on
your server or want to use.
- Auto Rotate Images - Gallery can
look at information in pictures from
digital cameras and automatically rotate
them as needed.
- Image Quality and Size Defaults -
You can limit the quality and size of
images so that when images are uploaded,
Gallery will resize them to save space.
- Main Gallery Page Settings - The
configuration wizard contains all of the
settings for how the main Gallery page
looks and acts including showing or
hiding the album tree, search engine, or
album owner, and what frames to show
around albums.
- Optional Binaries: zip, jhead,
jpegtran - If you have these programs on
your webserver, you can enable them to
make gallery work better and be more
flexible.
- Languages - Choose which languages
you want your Gallery to support and how
the user is presented with the choice.
- Email Support - Set up email support
to have your Gallery email users when
their accounts are created or when they
forget their password, email you copies,
email people when the Gallery is
updated, and more!
- Gallery-wide Slideshow - enable or
disable a slideshow that includes all
pictures in the gallery
- Commenting - turn off or on the
public commenting system and configure
it.
- Logging - enable logging with syslog
or the Windows logger
- RSS publishing - publish your
Gallery with RSS!
- Album Defaults - set defaults for
the way that all new albums will
originally look
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| Accounts/Permissions |
| You start off with
only one user, the Administra. This
account can do anything with Gallery.
Typically you'll want to use the admin to
create other users (which can also be
administrators if you want). Users can be
granted permission to create and maintain
their own albums on a per-album basis. Users can also self-registerand sign up for e-mail
notification when things in
the Gallery change. |
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| Albums |
An album is a group of pictures and
movies inside of a gallery. Albums can be
nested inside of each other and can be
customized on an individual basis. Albums
can have specific permis(ie, some users can modify it,
some users can add to it, etc), and the
album owner can grant permissions to
different users. Albums can even be hidden
to only allow logged in or specifc users
access to even see that it exists.
An album's thumbnail defaults to a scaled
version of the first image added but can be
set to be all or part of any image in the
album. Items in an album can be sorted based
on date added, date captured, etc, and the
whole album can be deleted, moved, or
renamed. All captions for items in an album
can be edited at once without having to
click on each picture . Comments
can also be viewed in once place for easy
review and moderation .
Additionally, if polling is enabled for an
album, the results can be viewed by the
album owner or optionally displayed at the
top of the page.
Album can also be easily watermarked
(watermarking every image in it)
and customized by their owners
in a variety of ways. You can change the
title, colors, background, fonts, and
borders. You can also specify a target
thumbnail size and a target intermediate
photo size (so that folks with lesser
bandwidth can view scaled versions of big
photos) . The number of rows and
columns in an album is customizable, as well
as a variety of viewer options. |
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| Photos |
If you have the appropriate permissions,
you can add photos to an album. A default
method is set in the config wizard, but
there are several ways to do this:
- Upload a ZIP file full of photos and
movies
- Use a form to upload up to 10 photos at
each time with and optional file containing
descriptions.
- Specify a web page and let Gallery go
slurp up all the photos and movies on that
page.
- Copy all images to a directory on your webserver and let Gallery copy them directly
into your album.
- Use the embedded applet and
drag-and-drop pictures and movies to upload
them.
- Use Gallery Remote or one of the Other
methods available.
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As you upload pictures, they will be
automatically thumbnailed, added to your
album, and have intermediate sized images
created if needed. They can also be
automatically watermarked if you have
enabled this feature. Once photos are
upload there are several things you can do
to manage them:
- Edit the title, caption, keywords, and
other custom fields that you define.
- Modify the thumbnail with java applet,
selecting only part of the image to show.
- Rotate the image in increments of 90
degrees.
- Move the photo to a different place in the
same album or a different album.
- Hide the photo so that only the album
owner or logged in users can see it.
- Delete the photo.
- Add a watermark of your choice to your
photo.
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