[ 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.

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).

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