[gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Harry Putnam]

I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
generating tools available on linux.  

I have photos on smugmug.com   and wondered if there is do it yourself
tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
> generating tools available on linux.  
> 
> I have photos on smugmug.com   and wondered if there is do it yourself
> tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.


never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
you sell them online.

Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
hosting.

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

"My education message will resignate amonst all parents."

George W. Bush
January 19, 2000
Quoted in the New York Post.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Mick]

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On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
> > generating tools available on linux.
> >
> > I have photos on smugmug.com   and wondered if there is do it yourself
> > tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.
> 
> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
> you sell them online.
> 
> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
> hosting.

A really low-tech solution that was more than enough for me was the ability of 
Konqueror 3.x to generate an html page with thumbnails and link it to the 
folder with all your chosen photos.  With KDE4 I had to install kim4 for 
editing my pics and creating an html gallery.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:

> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
> you sell them online.
> 
> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
> hosting.

If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.
 

-- 
Neil Bothwick

EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has
pictures.

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Harry Putnam]

Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> writes:

> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
>> generating tools available on linux.  
>> 
>> I have photos on smugmug.com   and wondered if there is do it yourself
>> tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.
>
>
> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
> you sell them online.

I'll look into JAlbum

One main requirement is that user/viewer be able to download full
resolution original photos.  No commercial (shopping cart) type stuff
is required.... just a family operation.

> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
> hosting.

Yeah thats what I'm after.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
>> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
>> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
>> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
>> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
>> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
>> you sell them online.
>> 
>> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
>> hosting.
>
> If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
> options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.

Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability
to download original (full res) images?  Or does it generate the php
versions but leave the originals out of what is viewed?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Harry Putnam]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> > I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and
>> > gallery generating tools available on linux.
>> >
>> > I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it
>> > yourself tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated
>> > handling they do.
>> 
>> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
>> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
>> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
>> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
>> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
>> you sell them online.
>> 
>> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
>> hosting.
>
> A really low-tech solution that was more than enough for me was the
> ability of Konqueror 3.x to generate an html page with thumbnails
> and link it to the folder with all your chosen photos.  With KDE4 I
> had to install kim4 for editing my pics and creating an html
> gallery.

That does sound close to what I need, but it involves jacking around
with KDE, something I swore off of a while back.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:53:15 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
> >> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
> >> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
> >> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
> >> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
> >> you sell them online.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
> >> hosting.
> >
> > If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
> > options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.
> 
> Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability
> to download original (full res) images?  Or does it generate the php
> versions but leave the originals out of what is viewed?
> 

I use Gallery myself for my picture collection and this can be configured 
easily.
As in, you can allow users access to all versions or just the 'resized' 
versions.
This can be done through groups or specific users.

I usually only allow people to access the resized versions. It does support 
resizing on-the-fly, but only to the sizes you actually configured for that 
particular photo/album/...

the on-the-fly bit is only done if the requested size doesn't exist yet, eg. 
it will only do it once (unless you clear the derivatives folder ;) )

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> > If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
> > options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.  
> 
> Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability
> to download original (full res) images?  Or does it generate the php
> versions but leave the originals out of what is viewed?

It's your choice, you can allow specified resolution or full size too. I
only allow full size to logged in users, to stop web spiders eating up
all my bandwidth by crawling over the original image links.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked "Power"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Mick]

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On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:54:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> > I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and
> >> > gallery generating tools available on linux.
> >> >
> >> > I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it
> >> > yourself tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated
> >> > handling they do.
> >>
> >> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
> >> push JAlbum.  You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
> >> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
> >> need a webserver).  It can synchronise to your website.  There are a
> >> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
> >> you sell them online.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
> >> hosting.
> >
> > A really low-tech solution that was more than enough for me was the
> > ability of Konqueror 3.x to generate an html page with thumbnails
> > and link it to the folder with all your chosen photos.  With KDE4 I
> > had to install kim4 for editing my pics and creating an html
> > gallery.
> 
> That does sound close to what I need, but it involves jacking around
> with KDE, something I swore off of a while back.

Use Knoppix or similar to see if it does what you want, as you want it and 
then decide if it is worth you installing Konqueror and kim4.  JAlbum is a 
more substantial application built for this purpose (as long as you have Java 
on your machine).

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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Harry Putnam]

[ Note for fellow searchers: The topic here is the image/photo Gallery
  software available on portage as: www-apps/gallery
]

"J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> writes:

> I use Gallery myself for my picture collection and this can be configured 
> easily.
> As in, you can allow users access to all versions or just the 'resized' 
> versions.
> This can be done through groups or specific users.
>
> I usually only allow people to access the resized versions. It does support 
> resizing on-the-fly, but only to the sizes you actually configured for that 
> particular photo/album/...
>
> the on-the-fly bit is only done if the requested size doesn't exist yet, eg. 
> it will only do it once (unless you clear the derivatives folder ;) )


Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
>> > options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.  
>> 
>> Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability
>> to download original (full res) images?  Or does it generate the php
>> versions but leave the originals out of what is viewed?
>
> It's your choice, you can allow specified resolution or full size too. I
> only allow full size to logged in users, to stop web spiders eating up
> all my bandwidth by crawling over the original image links.

Great info fellas... thanks, I reposted it here for the ease of any
searchers who may stumble on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:50 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> I'll look into JAlbum
> 
> One main requirement is that user/viewer be able to download full
> resolution original photos.  No commercial (shopping cart) type stuff
> is required.... just a family operation.

from memory I did 3 sizes - the thumbnail, an intermediate size suitable
for screen viewing after clicking on the thumbnail, and then a third
size which was the original image size.  In some cases I left the
original size out to save space.

I gave these out to family as well - some as CD's and some as zip files.
In either case you just had to open index.htm and the rest was done (as
mentioned, so long as you have java in your browser).

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

A good question is never answered.  It is not a bolt to be tightened
into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the
hope of greening the landscape of idea.
		-- John Ciardi