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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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: 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 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. 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. This application can run on Mac, *nix, and Windows. 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. Gallery is now compatible with Nuke
5.0+ and Post-Nuke
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. You can change much of Gallery's look with style sheets. You can also
wrap it inside your own website in a seamless fashion (example
1, example
2, example
3) using our 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). 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:
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