http://www.enpimages.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.enpimages.com/stack-photo-gallery-save-your-photos-in-virtual-stacks.html http://www.enpimages.com/stack-photo-gallery-save-your-photos-in-virtual-stacks.html#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:25:49 +0000 ewwink http://localhost/wpbeta/stack-photo-gallery-save-your-photos-in-virtual-stacks.html After the first photo “The scene from the window” had appeared, still pictures changed greatly and virtual galleries replaced common albums with transparent pockets for photos. Photography lovers are even a little disappointed, because one can not paddle files, sitting on a convenient armchair behind a wooden table.

Developers from Flash-Gallery.com (http://flash-gallery.com) designed a unique gallery for those who like to look through photos one by one holding a stack of them.

Stack Photo Gallery (http://flash-gallery.com/stack-photo-gallery/) is one of the most unusual flash-galleries, you have ever seen.

Naturalness gives zest to Stack Photo Gallery(http://flash-gallery.com/stack-photo-gallery/). The only button (back) is small and unnoticeable, and nothing else reminds that the photos are electronic.

Photos are stacked; the stack is even fluttering a little, when you are trying to take a photo from the bottom. Please, watch the Demo, look through some photos and you will forget that they are digital ones rather than common paper ones.

What a convenient flash-gallery should be?

It is pleasant that the gallery developers were concerned not only about the attractiveness of the interface, but also about the usability. Digital photos are as convenient to look through as a stack of your favourite photographical prints.

There are no loading problems, even if your Internet-connection is not fast enough – the optimized code of the gallery works very productively.

Captions will retain the date the photo was made, and everything that you want to remember about this moment of life.

Any photo looks better in a frame – photos in the gallery are placed in shadeless frames, which are reminding a bit the frames of the photos from the Polaroid. Do you remember that all photos from these cameras seemed brighter than others? One of the secrets – contrast frames.

Flexible configuration will please every web developer. Flash(cs3) and swf-xml versions are available.

Natural and convenient interface does not have any unnecessary elements; it does not distract your attention from the main thing – looking through photos.

ou can try to download a free demo with restriction on the maximum quantity of photos and with a reference to the site of developers (http://flash-gallery.com)

]]> http://www.enpimages.com/stack-photo-gallery-save-your-photos-in-virtual-stacks.html/feed 0 http://www.enpimages.com/adding-an-ajax-web-photo-gallery-to-your-website-for-amateurs-based-on-my-own-experience.html http://www.enpimages.com/adding-an-ajax-web-photo-gallery-to-your-website-for-amateurs-based-on-my-own-experience.html#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:03:00 +0000 ewwink http://localhost/wpbeta/adding-an-ajax-web-photo-gallery-to-your-website-for-amateurs-based-on-my-own-experience.html I was recently found a new product from Vista Web Photo Gallery.com, http://vistaphotogallery.com/, an IT company. The new product has the same name, Vista Web Photo Gallery, http://vistaphotogallery.com/, and it helps users to create albums of photos and put them online. Vista Web Photo Gallery is announced as the only software that creates AJAX-powered on-line picture galleries without the need for server side setup. It means you just upload files generated by the program to your web server and it will run instantly, even if it’s a free web hosting without a cgi, php, asp, mysql support.

I’m not a pro of html design or web coding, so I wanted to find out how easy it is to make that “high-end image gallery apps that look and behave exactly like desktop software”. I downloaded the free test version of software from the VistaPhotoGallery.com web site http://vistaphotogallery.com/vistaphotogallery-setup.exe and installed it on my home computer (I’m on Windows).

After running through a fast installation procedure, Vista Web Photo Gallery opens on your desktop – and right away you see step-by-step hints in the main window on how to get your photo web gallery ready.

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In short, you should drag and drop image files, add descriptions and tags, and then publish using “Publish Gallery” button.

Vista Photo Web Gallery’s interface is very simple and clear. You’ll see a toolbar running along the top, “Tags”, “Date Taken”, “Folders” trees at the left, and an picture data panel that runs beneath the main window. If you ever used the standard Photo Gallery software that comes with Windows XP or Windows Vista, you’ll find Vista Web Gallery very familiar.

I dragged and dropped some photos from Windows Explorer, thumbnails appeared in the preview window and the “Date Taken” tree at the left was filled with dates of images. Then I tried to drop four folders with my recent photos, more that 300 in total – no problem, all thumbnails were displayed in the main panel and folder names were added to “Folders”.

I very liked “Date Taken” tree functionality. All the pile of photos I dropped to the program, were sorted by date, so I could easily navigate through years, months and days of feelings and memories I’m already thinking about using this software as a organizer for all my photo collection. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OddNt6Ea0Ks/SQBpj1D-eOI/AAAAAAAAABA/8LPcAMeUaxo/s1600-h/1.jpg

Vista Web Photo Gallery offers some options for working with tags, including the “Tags” tree and “Add Tag” field on image info panel. I added several tags and several captions for my photos without any troubles.

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Ok, not bad so far. I had a photo gallery on my computer, but what about online gallery? Much to my surprise, generating the image web gallery was even easier than I imagined! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OddNt6Ea0Ks/SQBqd4iHHqI/AAAAAAAAABQ/796t3hus6eI/s1600-h/3.jpg

I clicked “Publish Gallery”, selected a folder to save, a couple of seconds, and .. WOW! The gallery was opened in my Internet Explorer, but at the first look I didn’t realize that it’s my finished photo web gallery! Great vista-like style design, the same “Tags”, “Date Taken”, “Folders” trees at the left with the same “on-fly” sorting and filtering, picture thumbnails with zooming on mouseover and changing the preview mode – all looks and acts as a Windows desktop application but inside the web browser.

Finally, I uploaded the folder with generated gallery to my free webhosting account at 50webs.com, http://eskolahti.50webs.com/, and it ran at the first try without any efforts from my side in spite of the fact that 50webs does not support PHP, CGI or any server scripts in free hosting plans. You can see my gallery at http://eskolahti.50webs.com/. It’s not a full web gallery I made, just a small part for public eye, but as a sample it’s very good.

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Vista Photo Gallery is an excellent software that is friendly to amateur website developers, but at the same time is powerful enough to meet the needs of more-advanced users. The advanced AJAX-powered engine is the key feature that makes photo galleries looks and performs great. I had some experience with other gallery generators before, but Vista Web Photo Gallery, http://vistaphotogallery.com/, is definitely best in both easy-to-use and final result.

]]> http://www.enpimages.com/adding-an-ajax-web-photo-gallery-to-your-website-for-amateurs-based-on-my-own-experience.html/feed 0 http://www.enpimages.com/make-your-pictures-accessible-universally-with-free-photo-galleries.html http://www.enpimages.com/make-your-pictures-accessible-universally-with-free-photo-galleries.html#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:43:29 +0000 ewwink http://localhost/wpbeta/make-your-pictures-accessible-universally-with-free-photo-galleries.html In recent times, uploading the photographs on the Internet has become a trend. It is also a hobby of many people. Digital technology has played a major role in popularising this trend among the people.

Now you can capture the images through your camera phone or digital camera. You can also transfer them to your computer and upload them on any free photo gallery on the Internet. You can also upload the scanned photos that have been originally captured by the film cameras. There are a number of websites that provide photo galleries so that you could upload the images and other users could view it. In the same way you also can view the images that have been uploaded by other users.

There are a plenty of portals on which the photos are already there. These pictures may consist of different themes such as nature, events, vehicles etc. Different people have different kinds of interests. People like these images as per their interests. Free car photos are extremely popular among youths. These images consist of different models of cars with different sizes, colours designs etc. Car lovers enjoy these images a lot. Many individuals are inspired by such photographs to purchase a particular model of a car manufacturer. Some of the Internet users also post the photos taken by them on a free photo gallery. In addition to this, residential house photos are also very popular in every age group. These are taken by the users very often. A large number of photos consist of this theme. Different events related to the residential properties are also covered under such themes.

Uploading the images in these galleries is an easy job. The time taken to upload the pictures depends on the size of the picture. Many sites provide some special software through which one can upload the images in bulk. These images could belong to different categories such as residential photos, nature, sports, disaster etc. You have to upload the image as per its category.

You can also download beautiful photos and display them on your computer monitor as wall papers or share them with your friends. One can find the images by searching for a particular theme or category. These pictures can be searched by entering your favourite topic in the search box of the website.

The photos may belong to different qualities depending upon the resolution of the camera which captured them. If the images have good resolution then you can view them clearly in any size. If the resolution is poor, then they may get distorted if increased in size. A large number of good quality pictures are taken by the professional photographers also.

These days some websites also pay your for uploading the photographs. If you upload the photo in the free photo gallery of any such website, then you are paid some amount for the same by the website. The photo galleries on Internet are gaining popularity day by day due to the increasing interest of the people in them. Digital cameras and camera phones have made it easy to capture and upload as many images as one wants. These galleries have become a good source of keeping one’s memorable moments alive for long.

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