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Gallery
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.
Features
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 allows you to configure
many of Gallery's options while determining as much as it can from
your environment. The wizard will create an admin account for you.
This is a special account that allows you to create other user accounts,
create albums, and set album permissions.
Administrator
You start off with only one user, the Administrator
(login name: admin). This account can do anything with Gallery.
Typically you'll want to use the admin to create other users. Users
can be granted permission to create and maintain their own albums.
Albums
An album is a unit group of the Gallery. It can contain
pictures and movies. It can have specific permissions (ie, some
users can modify it, some users can add to it, etc). The album owner
is typically the chief maintainer of an album, but the owner can
grant those permissions to other Gallery users.
Adding photos to Albums
If you have the appropriate permissions, you can add
photos to an album. You can add them one at a time or up to 10 at
a time using the "Add Photos" dialog. If your server has
ZIP file support, a faster alternative is to upload a ZIP file full
of photos and movies. A third option is to specify a web page and
let Gallery go and slurp all the photos and movies off of that page
for you (it'll let you pick which ones you want). A fourth option
is to copy images to your web server and let Gallery copy them directly
into your album. As photos and movies are added to the album, Gallery
will resize and make thumbnails of them for you.
Gallery also allows you have albums within albums so
you can organize sets of albums together. You can choose which album
you want to be the highlight, just as if it were a photo. You can
move albums and ranges of photos in and out of other albums.
Maintaining photos
A photo or movie is the basic unit of Gallery. Photos
and movies are grouped together into albums. Once you have the photos
in your album the fun begins. Typically an intermediate resized
version and a thumbnail of the image are created for you. You can:
- Add captions
- Edit the thumbnail. Gallery comes with a small Java applet
that lets you select a part of the image as the source for your
thumbnail.
- Rotate your photo (in 90 degree increments)
- Highlight a photo (pick a photo to represent the album in the
main Gallery)
- Reorder the photos in the album
- Hide photos (so that they're only visible to the owner)
- Delete photos
- Sort your album based on popularity, title, number of comments,
and photo capture date.
- Edit multiple captions at once
Maintaining Albums
Each album's appearance can be customized by its owner
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.
Mirroring Albums
Gallery lets you mirror your albums on as many remote
servers as you like. This lets you run your Gallery on a machine
with limited bandwidth (like over a DSL line) but still serve up
your images quickly from a high bandwidth source like an ISP. Gallery
will not actually mirror the files for you. You're responsible for
doing it yourself. I use a program called rsync. You can use whatever
you want. If the remote album is up to date, Gallery will use it.
If not, Gallery will use the local one.
Users
A user (provided the admin allows it) can create a
new album. This user (the creator of the album) is the album's owner
and can modify the album's permissions. You can grant read, write,
modify and delete permissions to individual users on a per-album
basis. Owners and the Administrator always have all permissions.
Embedding Gallery
Gallery is now compatible with Nuke 5.0+ and PostNuke
as an add-on module. Simply put your gallery directory inside the
Nuke modules directory and you're all set. All the regular Gallery
features will work properly while embedded inside Nuke, and Gallery
will have the same look and feel as the rest of your Nuke site.
Customizing Gallery
You can change much of Gallery's look with style sheets.
You can also wrap it inside your own website in a seamless fashion
using HTML wrapping system. The one thing you can't easily do right
now is to change the layout from a grid format to something else.
However, in v2.0 we plan to introduce a templating system that will
let you write your own HTML to do customized themes and layouts
(or use the ones that we and other users provide). You can find
out more about MANY more customizations further down in the user
guide.
Viewer Options
Users viewing your album can easily navigate around
using the navigation bars at the top and bottom of every album page.
Each album can be given its own unique URL. Each photo within the
album in turn has its own unique URL. You can use these URLs to
get directly to a specific photo from outside the Gallery (useful
when you want to email photo links to a friend). In addition to
this, the album owner can allow the user to use the following features:
- Fit-to-window This feature will scale any
photos that don't have intermediate resized versions so that they
fit on the screen of the viewer (experimental) This is an optional
feature that can be disabled by the Administrator.
- Full-vs-Resized
- Photo printing. Gallery is integrated with
Shutterfly. Your viewers can order prints via Shutterfly with
a single click.
- Short URLs. If you have the mod_rewrite capability
on your webserver (this is a module for Apache, and many ISPs
enable it) you can use very short URLs for each picture which
makes it easier to email them around.
- Keyword searching. Gallery allows you to
search your album and photo names and descriptions for keywords.
This is a configurable option.
- EXIF headers. Gallery displays the EXIF data
embedded into images by most of the newer digital cameras. This
is a configurable option.
- Click counting. Gallery tracks how many times
an album or photo has been viewed and displays it for you to see.
This is an optional feature that can be disabled by the Administrator.
- Public commenting. Visitors can write their
own comments on individual photos for all to see. Admins can manage
these comments. This is an optional feature that can be disabled
by the Administrator.
- Slideshow. Visitors can view the contents
of an album using a slideshow.
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