Open Source Photo Gallery Software
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 Click For a Bigger Picture. Photo Galleries is one of the most popular software on the web and for different kinds of usage. Here you find the most usable and popular photo gallery software's; from small galleries when you want to show some pictures on your web site to big galleries where you can print and sell pictures. It can be a daunting task to pick the software that fits you but you have to start with to decide what you are going to use the gallery to. Then collect information about the software and check available demos and live web sites. Some galleries have support for plugins and skins/themes which extends the functions and give you different style options. We will soon launch a theme gallery so it will be easier to choose the theme that is right for you. Also check out Wikipedia’s photo gallery comparison page. 4images4images is a powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload and HTML templates for page layout and design. By using the integrated template system the design and layout can be customized easily. 4images is multilingual: an external language file can be used for translation in other languages. More features are: RSS feeds, search engine, automatic thumbnail generation, extensive user administration, upload function for users, showing IPTC and EXIF data of images, rating of images, spam protection, protection against hotlinking, newsletter function, e-cards, integrated database backup function, etc. 4images is free for private and non-commercial use. Development Status: Production/Stable. Coppermine Photo GalleryCoppermine Photo Gallery is a photo gallery script which can be either private or public. You can let your users upload pictures with a web browser and/or only upload pictures yourself (thumbnails are created on the fly). Users can rate pictures, add comments and send ecards. The admins can manage the galleries and batch adds pictures that have been uploaded on the server by FTP. Coppermine has support for many languages and over 60+ themes. Many of the themes are similar to other software's, e.g. phpBB and SMF forums, why it is easy to get similar looks on your web site. There is also possible to bridge Coppermine with some other software, e.g. phpBB forums. There is also support modifying of the software to be used with WordPress. Development Status: Production/Stable. Gallery 1Gallery is very interesting photo gallery software that has split into two different galleries, Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. Gallery 1 (or G1) is the original photo hosting product, suitable for small to medium-sized photo collections. You can manage your photos on your web site, create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. G1 store the "metadata" (comments, titles, descriptions, keywords, etc) in files. Storing the metadata in a file is much simpler and thus can be faster for smaller galleries. It also has fewer resource requirements, so will run better on lower end or older servers. Of course, it also has drawbacks. As G1 grows, it will use up more and more memory (ram) to do certain operations. With average usage, G1 starts to top out at around 5,000 images. G1 can easily be integrated into your web site or even your content management system. G1 has been around for a while and it is many skins/themes around and G1 supports many languages. Development Status: Production/Stable. Gallery 2Gallery 2 (G2) is the next generation of Open Source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Features include: easy to create photo galleries, user/photo administration and editing, comprehensive permissions system, extensible modular design, fully themeable and much more. G2 is the best choice if your gallery is going to be large. G2 keeps the data in a database and the biggest advantage is scalability; G2 should be able to keep five, ten, one hundred or even a million images with very little performance difference between them. There is a site that hosts over 900,000 images (and probably has 5,000+ users). However, being database driven has a drawback though. A file based system may take 0.1 seconds to open up a 10 image album, but a database system which is fixed at 0.5 seconds for *any* album is still slower for 10 images. Of course, it might take that file based system 10 seconds to load an album with 1,000 images and it would just crash and die trying to load 10,000 images. Development Status: Production/Stable. singaporesingapore is an Open Source, multilingual, template-driven image gallery web application. What makes singapore different from the hundreds of other similar scripts is that it was originally conceived for displaying photographic art in an aesthetically pleasing fashion using a clean, uncluttered interface. Now, though, its powerful templating system allows you to display your images in pretty much any way that takes your fancy. singapore aims to adhere to the KISS philosophy by including only the features that are actually useful. It does NOT require MySQL or other database programs since all image information is stored in flat text CSV files. However if you do have access to MySQL there is a backend that allows you to use it. Development Status: Beta. |
