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A few years back, I was looking for an easy way to create online photo alubm pages for my family's website. After trying all the tools I could find, I started using jAlbum, which did basically everything I wanted (it was a Pick of the Week back in 2003). Recently, however, a colleague at Macworld told me about Galerie, and I'm now using it for my online photo albums.

Galerie has a ton of features; to name just a few, you can: specify what text is associated with both thumbnails and larger images (comments, EXIF, date, etc.); set the horizontal and vertical spacing of thumbnails; add a watermark; add the full-sized images to the upload (optionally zipped); set the size of thumbnails and larger images; upload to your FTP server automatically; and much, much more. In addition to all the album setup features, you can choose from 18 different templates that control the appearance of your album. If that's not enough, you can download 50 more free templates. Many of the templates use CSS for styling, and can thus be easily customized.

The program is also very new-user-friendly. There's an extensive user manual available from within the program, and each setting has a pop-up tooltip that further describes how it works.

One of the main things that made it easy for me to switch from jAlbum is Galerie's integration with iPhoto. Just create a selection in iPhoto, then switch to Galerie and click the Generate button. Galerie will automatically grab the images from iPhoto and create the album. With jAlbum, I had to manually export my images first. It will also work in this manner with selections in GraphicConverter, iView MediaPro, and Extensis Portfolio 7. You can also drag and drop files or folders from the Finder.

Macworld.com covered Galerie in a Mac Gems writeup a couple years back, but somehow I missed it. I wished I'd found it sooner; it's a great timesaver for me -- with two small kids in the house and no local family, I spend a lot of time making online photo albums! My only wish for Galerie is that it supported more than simple FTP as the upload mechanism; I use SFTP on our server, so I have to do the upload myself. But that's a very minor complaint for a well-documented, easy to use program -- and it's free!
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Galerie - An easy to use web photo album creator
Authored by: mclbruce on Nov 28, '06 08:12:49AM

I've been using Galerie for several years and I like it a lot. The iPhoto integration is great, as was mentioned in the article. Although it's simple to use on the surface, there are some sophisticated options available in the preferences. Modifying the templates is not difficult if you know a little HTML.



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Galerie - An easy to use web photo album creator
Authored by: NB on Nov 28, '06 08:17:38AM

You forgot to mention the comments sytem!
Using this, you can let people post comments on your galerie, and it works regardless your host. Comments are hosted on myriad's servers. (Which is a good reason to donate - I'm not affiliated with them.)



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Also from a selection in GraphicConverter
Authored by: Herve5 on Nov 28, '06 09:37:12AM

FWIW, you also can auto-create a gallery from a selection of photos inside Graphic Converter (not only in iPhoto)...



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have you tried myPhoto?
Authored by: j-beda on Nov 28, '06 12:27:42PM
http://agent0068.dyndns.org/~mike/projects/myPhoto/index.php is a PHP solution to generating photo galeries. It atomagically generates stuff from the iPhoto library, so once set up, there is almost no need to touch it again. I've been using it for a couple of years now and it has certainly made my life easier.

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Flash options
Authored by: jsluys@mac.com on Nov 28, '06 01:24:46PM
I use a couple of flash based galleries, that I like a lot. They are all from Airtight Interactive and are free for basic use – but if you want to modify the source they cost money.

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/ is my favorite.

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WebExport
Authored by: rgray on Nov 29, '06 05:15:11AM
"WebExport is a universal exporter for iPhoto 5 and 6. It is geared for the production of low to high end photo galleries on any kind of website." Has template to work with SimpleViewer as well as others.. Very easy.

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Galerie - An easy to use web photo album creator
Authored by: pbw on Nov 28, '06 02:59:21PM
These are all really interesting suggestions but I don't have my own website or .Mac. I've been using Phanfare (www.phanfare.com) to host photos and videos. I especially like the video sharing capability since I can upload many video formats and they're automatically converted to Flash on-the-fly (but viewers can still download the original video files if they'd like). You may not have the flexibility to add features as you would with the above-mentioned services but Phanfare's a nice product for people who don't want to set up their own website or server.

I'm not affiliated with them but am a very satisfied user. They have a Mac client (with some iPhoto integration) and provide top-notch customer service.


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Galerie - and there are others...
Authored by: Señor Epiphyte on Nov 28, '06 08:57:29PM
For web solutions integrated with iPhoto; Coppermine ([link:]http://coppermine.sf.net/) and CopperExport ([link:]http://zzamboni.org/copperexport) are a match made in cyberspace.

I used the MyPhoto tools for a few years, but the implementation became more complex and performance less predictable. Thankfully, I have found nothing more simple and useful for sharing photos than the impeccable iPhotoWebShare ([link:]http://www.bitpatterns.com/iPhotoWebShare). All or selective portions of your iPhoto library are shared from your home Mac, including comments.

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Galerie - An easy to use web photo album creator
Authored by: CatMac on Nov 29, '06 06:48:00AM

Downloaded and tried it - good program, easy to use, real time-saver.



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