Gallery Software

In our world today image is very important and if you want to illustrate something you must necessarily add some photos to exemplify what you are talking about. Society evolved enormously in the past century and so did technology. Now we can use regularly what our grandparents only heard about. We also have more device available to take pictures with: photo cameras, digital cameras, mobile phones with camera incorporated and so on. It is not like in the early days of photography when you had the opportunity of having a photo only once in a while,  when you celebrated something important. You had to go to the only person in town who owned a photo shop and pay a lot for a black and white photo that was often lacking expression and shapness. But, like I said, these are long gone times. Now you have the possibility to take photos everywhere and also to edit your photos and print or publish them in a customized manner, adding a personal touch.

People have realized that photos are the only memories we get after the passing of the time, because our brain memery is reduced and often deceiving. We get used to the changes of our faces and do not realize how much we have changed in time except for when we see ourselves in old photos. Our memory is also limited and we can't possibly remember all the things we did or people we met in time. But the photos can do that for us. They work like a trigger and when we look at them, they bring back those past times to memory. When I look at old photos of myself I remeber Marcel Proust and his masterpiece "In search of lost time" where he describes exactly my thoughts. I feel like the little boy whose memeries are brought to life by the smell of a cake.


I know that you all own photo digital cameras and you all have thousands of photos, more or less beautiful and clear. You certainly want to share them with your friends and relatives that live abroad or in a distant city. All you have to do is make a photo gallery and then send the link to the people you love and want to share your memories with. There are a lot of web sites that are specialized in photo galleries that you can use for free and where you can upload your photos, make photo albums , organize the photos and everything. But most of the times these web sites offer a only limited number of photos to upload and limited features.


Then there is the trouble of uploading a big amount of photos if you choose to share more or even the inconvenient of having your accounts that you have created in time deleted after some time (an illustrative example is yahoo album that is now closed after I worked for long hours to upload almost 1000 photos then I got a notice that the web site will be closing). So many people decide to use theie personal web page to show their photo albums and, besides everything, they have the privacy option, too. The gallery software used to make photo albums and photo galleries is used both by normal people and professionals: fashion photographers, wedding organizers, real estate agents, restaurant, hotels and other jobs that need illustration.


Here is a top ten of the best gallery software that you can purchase if you want to build your own photo gallery on your web site:

1. Gallery - one of the best and updated photo organizers. It helps you manage your photo albums, both for small personal web sites, but also for big companies. You can use it to manage as many galleries you want to add on your server. The interface is intuitive and it offers you the opporunity to administrate your albums quite easily. One of the most important features of this software is the unlimited number of albums and photos you can add to the web site. Some other features include: auto image rotation, wide slideshow and RSS publishing. The feature that differentiates this software from others is "Mirror gallery" - the users can mirror their albums on remote servers. The Gallery is easy to set up and use and it guides you step by step with the configuration wizard, so as to avoid the mistakes that can appear when setting up the server or the OS. The intelligent feature of rotating the photos automatically makes it even more useful and saves a lot of time. You have a great variety of options to choose from when customizing your photos and albums, elegant themes and many other features (like RSS publishing). The only unpleasant thing about it is that the software does not keep the original size of the pictures.

2. 4Image gallery - is used to store and display mutimedia galleries, images and other files in .NET format. It has auto thumbnails and an original feature: you can transform your favourite photos in ecards and send them to people you know on several occasions.

3. Plogger -you can edit descriptions for every picture in the gallery, automatic thumbnail generation

4. Zenphoto - You have the option to use spam filters, use predefinite themes when customizing your albums

5. Shaddow box- is very flexible when supporting media publishing formats; it has an original feature - it adjust to any Javascript format or runs as an independent application

6. Coppermine - offers a large quantity of templates, users can be members in creating customized groups.


7. Simple picture gallery maker - you have the option of organizing hidden galleries or viewing your galleries in a random or fixed thumbnail form

8. Image gallery pro - supports more than one user

9. 2 Photo Gallery

10. BolGallery

All the ones I mentioned above are very good and offer many nice features. Your only job is to try to find which one is best for you, as preferences vary just like personalities and it is impossible to find a model that fits everybody. So have fun while searching and afterwards while watching the nice photo galleries made by yourself.