[druber]

I've finally got my photos from Africa organized and resized and whatever-ized. Building gallery pages, however, looks like a huge task. Thumbnails in a simple table would work well enough, but I'd like the links to pop open a page with the image, the window being the size of the pic. I can do it by hand, but that'll take endless copy/pastes. Could something as accessible as Applescript be used to pull the next file name from a folder, make the correct changes to a text file, the save the file as the pic's name, and move on? I can follow the concept, but writing it out in any code is beyond me.

I've seen solutions like Gallery, etc. That'd be handy, I guess, but I don't need picture resizing, stuff like that. I'm using Movable Type, and maybe I should do more to explore that as a solution. It'd be great if the full-size pop-up window could also include some caption text, even if that meant non-standard-size windows.

I do own a copy of Flash, which I'm equally useless in. An actionscript to automate this would be fine as well. In some ways, it'd be preferable; it would push people to get permission to grab the photos instead of just running off with them, though this isn't essential. Hardly Ansel stuff.

Any thoughts? or ideas?

[Xeo]

Tried iPhoto? It does a pretty nice job putting together web pages.

[druber]

Sure, but it's got zippo features. Captions, comments inside of CSS: probably will use MT. I'll try to post back when I find a decent solution that doesn't make posting ~450 photos a massive ordeal.

[bluedog]

If you have a host that allows PHP and has the gd libraries available, there's a great app called "Gallery" that allows viewers to post comments and retains the digital data(EXif?) if the photos were taken from a digital camera.

The application builds thumbnails for you and allows you to generate 'albums' for different themes/events/etc.

If you are not serving the site yourself (or on a server where you can make some configuration changes), it can be a little more difficult.

The cool thing about gallery apps that are run on the hosting server is they can be dynamic and make changes on-the-fly.

Otherwise you'll be looking at rebuilding the image gallery any time you want to make changes.

Here's a link to Gallery software that is open-source:
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=gallery&section=projects

And specifically a link to the "Gallery" software I've tried and liked:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/the_ga...ic_id=92%2C112

[druber]

Because I have a shared hosting account, I don't believe that my host has the image::magick software installed. I've checked out Gallery, and it looks like a pretty good solution. I have the pics, and I can make thumbnails no problem. Not sure if I could still use Gallery. I'm just afraid that I'll have to upload each pic and associate it with its thumbnail.

[nica]

Why not use photoshop web gallery, then tweak the index page background and banner, etc. then add the captions individually. But 450 pics, that's alot of work, maybe edit a few pics out, think of how many people will see all 450 images... I wouldn't.

[druber]

Well, but that's the whole point. When I searched the web for pictures of Kenya, I'd usually find less than a dozen scattered through a few travel stories. Those 450 pictures are around 1/4 of the pictures I took. And I don't expect that people will sit and browse the whole bunch, certainly not at one sitting. But if you're looking for pictures of the Nakuru game park, here's a whole pack. Shots around Nairobi? Yep, there's a set of those too.

Is the Photoshop Web Gallery built into the app? I've never heard of it before.

[SAgent0068]

Not to plug my own app, but have you checked out myPhoto?

Click the icon in my signature for more details...

[ThisGuy]

i have used JAlbum a couple of times. it may be worth looking at.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12793

[NYCFarmboy]

I use Photoshop's automatic web photo gallery generator.

You can go in and tweak the settings for larger thumnails or smaller..and for the final size of the "large" views.

http://www.sd45.com/SandPatch2003/index.html

That is a gallery I posted last week.

I hand coded the movies and graphic additions, but the basic code is all Photoshops.

You can adjust the thumnails to include a file name as well..I just prefer to have images only.

[yoyogi]

better html export is great.
http://www.droolingcat.com/software/betterhtmlexport/

check out the templates on their site, or make your own.

[Scoo]

I've been very pleased with PhotoSite TimeSaviour

Lots of features, free, stable