Online Photo Album / Gallery

Online Photo Gallery is a web based online photo album that lets you manage your photos on your own website. With Online Photo Album & Gallery system you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. You can give accounts to your friends and family and let them upload and manage their own photos on your website!

You can create your own online album easily an even create a slide show for your friends and family.

See a sample Online Photo Album

See a sample Online Slide Show

See a sample Online Photo Frame

Gallery Administrator

Gallery Administrator can do anything with Gallery. Admin can create other users and users can be granted permission to create and maintain their own albums.
Adding photos to Albums

Users who have appropriate permissions can add photos to an album. There are different ways to add photos yo your Online 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, Online Gallery System will automatically 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
  • Add picture frames. (See a sample photo frame here.)
  • Edit the 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.
Gallery Remote (Optional)

Gallery comes with a Java application called Gallery Remote that your users can use to upload photos to your Gallery via a drag-and-drop interface.

Gallery Remote is a desktop file upload utility for Gallery. It enables easy batch uploading of images to a Gallery installation, without the need to use the Gallery Web Interface. Features;

• • Multiple image upload
  • Drag and drop support
  • Image preview
  • Image resizing
  • New album creation
  • Multiple Gallery installs

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.

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. This is an optional feature that can be disabled by the Administrator.
  • Full-vs-Resized -- Viewers can specify that they want to view "only" the full sized versions.
  • Keyword searching -- Gallery allows you to search your album and photo names and descriptions for keywords. 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. (See a online album slide show here.)

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