Gallery Features

How it works:

Albums:

An album is a group of pictures and movies inside of a gallery. Albums can be nested inside of each other and can be customized on an individual basis. Albums can have specific permissions (ie, some users can modify it, some users can add to it, etc), and the album owner can grant permissions to different users. Albums can even be hidden to only allow logged in or specifc users access to even see that it exists.

An album's thumbnail defaults to a scaled version of the first image added but can be set to be all or part of any image in the album. Items in an album can be sorted based on date added, date captured, etc, and the whole album can be deleted, moved, or renamed. All captions for items in an album can be edited at once without having to click on each picture (screenshot). Comments can also be viewed in once place for easy review and moderation (screenshot). Additionally, if polling is enabled for an album, the results can be viewed by the album owner or optionally displayed at the top of the page.

Album can also be easily watermarked (watermarking every image in it) (screenshot) and customized by their owners 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) (screenshot). The number of rows and columns in an album is customizable, as well as a variety of viewer options.

Photos:

If you have the appropriate permissions, you can add photos to an album. The default method is a drag and drop applet, but there are several other ways to add photos:

Upload a ZIP file full of photos and movies. Your gallery will unzip the file, resize, create thumbnails and store your media automatically.
Use a web-based form to browse your computer and upload up to 10 photos at a time. (screenshot)
Specify a web page and let Gallery retrieve photos and movies from that page. (screenshot)
FTP or Copy your images and videos to a directory on your website and let Gallery import them directly into your album.
Use Gallery Remote is a easy tool that you can install which will connect with your photo gallery that lets you easily drag and drop, resize and make various other adjustments.

As you upload pictures, they will be automatically resized for thumbnails and intermediate sized images and added to your album. They can also be automatically watermarked. Once photos are uploaded there are several things you can do to manage them:

Edit the title, caption, keywords, and other custom fields that you define.
Modify the thumbnail with java applet, selecting only part of the image to show.
Rotate the image in increments of 90 degrees.
Move the photo to a different place in the same album or a different album.
Hide the photo so that only the album owner or logged in users can see it.
Delete the photo.
Add a watermark of your choice to your photo.

Mirroring albums:

Gallery also lets you mirror your albums on as many remote servers as you like. This lets you run your Gallery on a machine but have the ability to create duplicate copies for your friends website. Gallery will not actually mirror the files for you. You're responsible for doing it yourself through a program like sync.

Customizing:

GalleryReadyGallery is extremely customizable. There are lots of included customizations, many more that you can download, and endless possibilities! There are 4 main ways to customize Gallery:

CSS - Modify Gallery's style sheets, use your existing site's style sheet, or write your own to control colors, borders, spacing
Themes - Gallery comes with lots of themes are there are plenty more to download.
html_wrap - Have an existing HTML template for your site but don't use a content management system? html_wrap is for you! You can include content above, below, to the left, and to the right of gallery to make it blend in with the rest of your site.
changing code - Gallery is open source so you can easily change the source code to make it do whatever you want it to do.