Gallery Possibilities
Don’t get me wrong, I love my current gallery located over at flickr! I am really impressed with not only the pleasant way that it looks, but more impressed with the administration. Having the ability to do so much with your tagging, sets and collections is just perfect for someone hoping to put their photo gallery online. I also take advantage of the privacy options and have public and private photos in the same online gallery.
What happens one day if I decide to quit using flickr? Not that I think this will ever happen, but a backup copy wouldn’t be all that bad on a local install. That is why I started looking around the internet for export/import functions that work with a script that plays nice with flickr. I personally have a great bias to 4images because I used it for so many years and just love the interface. It isn’t that great for uploading photos, but the user and administration interface are what I like. I don’t really like Gallery 2 that much, but it had potential.
After my search for the export/import functions though, I quickly warmed up to Gallery 2 rather quickly. It has an entire project on Sourceforge that deals with nothing but getting Gallery 2 and Flickr to play together nicely. I installed Gallery 2, installed the Gallery2Flickr module, imported all my flickr sets and was running locally with a backup of my flickr gallery with 3,100 photos in 2 hours. That included the time it took for this importer to pull all the images and various sizes off flickr to my local installation. Shocking if you know how much data that really is because if I had to manually upload every photo, describe them and re-tag them, that would be days if not weeks.
So what is my plans with this new Gallery 2 installation? That is a good question. It will remain hidden as a backup gallery and have me playing with it for quite some time. It may get integrated with my private journal and test out all of possibilities that are available.
So what are my plans for my current Flickr gallery? Keep using it as it is still my favorite for managing my increasing photo gallery needs. I have 1,700 photos from just 2007 so far. That is a great thing, but if I ever find myself with privacy issues or just plain poor judgment from Yahoo! on the fate of flickr, I just deploy my local installation to the world.
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This is way off for the volume you have, but a very neat photoblog software is cheesecake:
http://cheesecake-photoblog.org/doku.php
For showcasing a few it’s pretty good.
That looks like a really cool photoblog software! Thanks for the link Mark! I think that for a gallery though, it wouldn’t quite fit my needs, but if I ever decide to start a photoblog, that is my first pick
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