Creating web photo galleries

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WSE7BC7E4B-BC7A-4c05-994A-A6F74113B819.html

Not strictly a Lightroom question, but you need to get server space or a host. There's plenty of free ones about, just google 'Free web host'. The hosting service will give you FTP details to enter into Upload Settings part of Lightroom's Web Module.

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What identically replaces CS 5 "Create Web Photo Album"?

I have one web site that is using the Dreamweaver CS4 "Create Web Photo Album", however now that I have upgraded to DW CS5, "Create Web Photo Album" is no longer available. I know you can use Bridge but I need an identical layout of the photo album that was in CS4 to match the others. Any ideas here?

I can't speak for Adobe since I'm just a plain old end user of their products just like yourself.
I do know that Adobe never remove features without having a good, hard look at what they're proposing to remove and getting feedback from users about how it's used and by how many people.
However, in Adobe's eyes, legacy features such as web albums (there since Macromedia days I believe) are clearly more suited to Bridge rather than Dreamweaver.
When they transfer features to different apps, it is rarely a seamless change so you won't get identical results at the pixel level.
When you're upgrading, everyone focusses on the new features. It's also wise to check what has been changed or discontinued before upgrading. Sometimes you'll find yourself in the unfortunate minority which relies on a given feature that apparently (according to Adobe) few people use but those that do think it's an important feature.
Having said that, Web Photo Album in Bridge is excellent from what I can see. Perhaps try it out and see what you think.

Wanted to Edit "Create Web Photo Album" template

I'm using MX2004.
I've recently done a major, major overhaul on a website I
manage. We use the "Create Web Photo Album" (not an extension - the
one that came with DW) extensively, but with the new design, the
basic photo album template isn't going to cut it. I could probably
sit with it myself and drop created photo albums into a template
page and make it work, but I'm not the only one doing photo albums
and some of the other people aren't the most... technically
competent.
What I'd like to do is somehow edit the template that
Dreamweaver uses to create the photo album so that it looks like
how we're wanting without any post-album-created-action.
Is this possible? Is there an extension that'll work for this
as well? (Looks like the Exchange is currently down, so that isn't
helping me in my search.)

Get the free extension "Create Web Photo Album 2" from Adobe.
It has many
pre made templates plus instructions on how to create your
own.
Michael Hager
www.cmhager.com
"Dexter74656" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm using MX2004.
>
> I've recently done a major, major overhaul on a website
I manage. We use
> the
> "Create Web Photo Album" (not an extension - the one
that came with DW)
> extensively, but with the new design, the basic photo
album template isn't
> going to cut it. I could probably sit with it myself and
drop created
> photo
> albums into a template page and make it work, but I'm
not the only one
> doing
> photo albums and some of the other people aren't the
most... technically
> competent.
>
> What I'd like to do is somehow edit the template that
Dreamweaver uses to
> create the photo album so that it looks like how we're
wanting without any
> post-album-created-action.
>
> Is this possible? Is there an extension that'll work for
this as well?
> (Looks
> like the Exchange is currently down, so that isn't
helping me in my
> search.)
>

Problems creating web photo album

Hi, I've been creating web photo albums in CS3 using Fireworks over the last five years. The last album I created was in February 2012
http://www.classictennismatches.net/images/index11.htm
However, I have been trying to create a new album since Saturday and it wont work, the thumbnails nor pictures are just not been retrieved from the parent folder on my computer and I just get the page created with thumbnails not manifesting or collected in the images folder. I always have Fireworks opened before creating the album.
Does anyone have any ideas why I am not able to create proper photo albums all of a sudden? Any help will be appreciated.

You have provided no information about what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/691654?tstart=0

Create Web Photo Album

I'm trying the 30-day version of Fireworks CS3 for two
reasons: First I want to more easily create my web photo albums,
and second, I want a graphical navbar with some elements having a
popup menu.
The issue I'm running into when I use the "Create
Web Photo Album" command from within DW CS3 is that the
resulting images get renamed to have a suffix of
"_jpg" added. I HATE that! (This means that an
image called "name.jpg" gets changed to
"name_jpg.jpg". Redundant, to say the least.
How can this be controlled? If I use FW directly to optimize
an image, this renaming doesn't happen, so I'm guessing this is
something that DW controls. And I'd like to override that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Eldor - Montreal

NO! It's not that easy! Have you actually tried the advice
you just gave? That'll break the whole routine!
(Folks, whatever you do, before attempting ANY modifications
to this file, MAKE A BACKUP!!!)
You need to make changes in several places and everything
must remain in sync - don't forget that this routine also writes
the html table code to display both the thumbnails and full-size
images and the href and img src references must point to the
correct files! If you remove the references to .jpg the resulting
html tables will NOT work! And the files will probably be wrongly
named as well.
Proceed with caution!
I'll see what I can do about documenting what I did - I'm new
to javascript but have many years of higher level programming
experience. The first thing I did while going through the code was
to put in comments explaining what certain parts of the code did,
as I figured them out. And then with great care, I made my changes.
By the way, Notepad certainly works for this, but it's a lot
easier to use Dreamweaver itself or (what I did) the Adobe
Extendscript Toolkit 2 that was included with my CS3 package. It
makes it easier to visualize the blocks of code and how everything
relates. And the find/replace dialog is superb.
Eldor
quote:
Originally posted by:
YonderAnt
quote:
Originally posted by:
TibaTeebs
can you share a) how/where you changed the code for JPEG in
the JS? and b) what new functions did you add (such as addidng a
title)
Open .js with notepad, in notepad press CRTL-F, type ".jpg"
in the search box, press the "find" button twice, change the ".jpg"
word to "" (nothing), do that to the third, fourth, and fifth ones
(there're only 5 ".jpg" words found in the .js file, don't change
the first one).
Then search "_", change all of that "_" to "" (don't change
the ones that contain a letter between "_")
done.
(Excuse my English language)

Create Web Photo Album Problem

Please help!!!!!! I have the Adobe Web Premium Suite CS3 so I
have all the programs loaded on my computer.
I have been working on this for 2 days and cannot get this
command to work. I have 15 folders of pics that need to be put up
and I want family to be able to click on the thumbnail and open up
to a larger pic. There are over 100 pics in there. I loaded all the
pics in their own folders; I have tried jpg, tiff, jpeg, psd and
gif pics; (I separated them by file name so there are none mixed in
the folders) I put the pic folders inside my web page folder, then
I tried it on my desktop and I tried to use My Pictures folder.
This is how I am doing this:
I have the index.html page open on Dreamweaver CS3
I hit Command > Create Web Photo Album >
fill out "Photo album title:
fill out "Subheading info:
fill out "Other info:
In the "Source images folder:" when I Browse I go to the
folder and
I click on it and when that opens there are no pics in there.
Nothing shows up at all.
I finish up the rest and an error message shows up "An error
occurred".
Anyone know what I am doing wrong????
Thank you.... Linda

Hello Do you happen to know if you get the same problem with windows 7
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Create web photo album missing in Dreamweaver CS6

Why is create web photo album missing from the command menu in my Dreamweaver CS6?

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 12: Create Web Photo Gallery

Adobe Photoshop Elements 12: I need to create a Web Photo Gallery so I can upload thumbnails and full-size pictures to my own website. Does anyone have an idea? No Facebook, Flickr, Adobe Revel etc.

Barbara, thank you very much. I really miss it. I have tested jalbum. It's great.
PSE 12 should also offer something like this.

Increasing photo quality in Web Photo Galleries

I create Photo Galleries (Create->Photo Galleries) and FTP them to an ISP for family to view. However the quality of the photos is low(ish). I have tried every Type and Style I can find in Elements. How do I increase the size (and therefore quality) of the photos in Photo Galleries to (say)100K per photo. If this isn't possible, what are the alternatives? Thanks!

Robin,
There are different layouts of galleries (PSE5), which display images of
different pixel dimensions and file size.
For instance, in my case, the first gallery when choosing a template,
"Standard (Small Thumbnails): A paginated grid of small thumbnails on the
left and a preview image on the right" displays images in the 60 - 70 KB
range, at a size of 480x320 px. Another gallery, "Slideshow: Slideshow-only
gallery that scales to fit the browser window" uses larger images, 636x424
px at right around 100 KB.
The quality of these two image sizes is probably similar, the file size
difference is due to variation of the pixel dimensions.
When using the second gallery above, or another one that uses the large file
size, you can actually go in and exchange the relatively low quality images
with a set of the same images that you would have manually sized and saved
at a better quality. I just ran a test and substituted the 100 KB images
with a set of 180 - 200 KB pictures at 800x533 px. They have to have the
exact same file names as the original set. They are located in:
C: ...\Untitled_Gallery\resources\media\08slideshow\large
This sounds like a tedious procedure, but if you have edited a set of
images, you can run the gallery creation with that set and turn around and
replace the files.
Juergen

Can't create web photo gallery with modified RAW files

I can use CS-2 to create a web photo gallery using unmodified RAW files, this seems to work fine.
However, after I tweak the exposure of a RAW file and a .xmp file has been created, if I try to create a web photo gallery, the program goes through the motions but no thumbnails or (bigger) jpg files are created. The resulting web photo gallery pages are just filled with broken link icons.
What's up?
Windows 2000
Photoshop CS-2
Cannon RAW files (.CR2 extensions)
Thanks,
Mark

I believe it may be to do with the sidecar files. My girlfriend has similar issues on Windows XP.
I have tried to recreate the problem here (on Mac OSX) but it all works fine for me, so i can't fully test it, but here is what i believe may be happening....
The sidecar file has the same name as the actual raw file (except the extension of course), so when the web gallery script is processing it, it does the raw file, then overwrites by trying to process the xmp file as an image, but of course it can't and then you end up with no image file in your thumbnail, or image directories in the web gallery for that image.
Two options you can try...
1) go into bridge and select the images to process in there (xmp files shouldn't show up there) and then use the Tools/Photoshop menu to access the WGB and choose 'Selected Bridge Images' as the source. (this has been tested successfully on win xp)
2) in the camera raw plugin, go into preferences and change the 'sidecar xmp' option to 'camera raw database'. You will then probably need to delete any sidecar files for the folder you wish to process and reapply your raw adjustments. If the problem is what i suspect (as above) this should also work, though i haven't been able to test.
Obviously you don't need to worry about the 'down rezzing' mentioned above as the web gallery builder should already be doing this for you...unless you changed it.

Preview, export, and upload web photo galleries

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WSA20E5E2B-1F61-4c59-A3F4-13C1AEF9EF56.html

In the web photo gallery, exporting seems to automatically create 4 sizes of images: large, medium, small and thumb. Because of copyright and bandwidth concerns, I start out with small images anyway. What Lighroom does, however, is to still create images for each, small, medium and large to be exactly the same size, and then the thumbnail. Ie I end up with bloating website which is 3 times as large as what it should be. Multiply the space wasted by thousands of photos, and you'll soon see that it is extremely inefficient way of creating a web presence. Then I have to FTP the mass to a remote server. Crazy. Yet, I cannot find an option anywhere (incl the help text) to turn off the bloatware. Adobe. How do I create only one size of image during export, namely original size, plus a thumbnail? That is all I need.

Help! Multiple Bridge Web Photo Galleries in my site

RunI am in need of some help and I posted this in Bridge and didn't get an answer.
I have a website and I used bridge to make my photo galleries. I downloaded the photo galleries bridge made into two different temporary folders outside of dreamweaver and then changed the name from index.html to "deck.html" (photos of a deck we built) and "of.html" (photos of an outdoor fireplace we built). Everything worked fine. I copied the deck.html file and the resources folder into my site folder and then linked a thumbnail of the deck to the deck.html file. Everything worked fine and the gallery loaded.
Now, I know that I can't put the resources folder into my site of the of.html gallery due to the same name so I changed it to resources2. I then put the of.html and resources2 folder into my site folder. I then checked the code to find where it was pointing to the resources folder to change it to resources2. This is what i did:
changed <script src=resources... to <script src=resources2...
I then linked a thumbnail of the outdoor fireplace to the of.html, but the deck.html gallery loaded
I am assuming that I am not changing the code correctly to link to the group.xml file which contains the images to load and the other files in my resources2 folder. When the link is clicked it loads the original deck.html gallery and I thought that somewhere in the AC_RunActiveContent.js it must be linking to the resource folder and not the resouces2 folder. I have searched through all the files in the resources2 folder and the of.html and I can't find where to change the code.
Please, any help would be appreciated. Also, if there is some other way to do this let me know.

Maybe I can explain this better....
the group.xml file has the information for what images to load. When previewing the outdoor fireplace web gallery "of.html" it loads the "deck.html" web gallery. I believe this is because in one of the files it is requesting the info from the group.xml file from the resourses folder. I need to find where the code is that directs it to the group.xml and change it to group2.xml and rename that group.xml file for "of.html" to group2.xml in the resourses2 folder.

Web Photo Galleries

Hi
I normally use the big guy, Photoshop, but I bought elements 9 because I thought it would have that automated web photo gallery from previous versions. That is that automated feature that makes a web site of a folder of pictures. I can't seem to find it.
How do I do that?
Thanks
Jon

You can select a group of photos in the organizer and start there, or you can open all the files in the editor and right click the project bin to save them as an album if you don't use organizer, then go on from there.
I don't know what you mean by "it didn't function". To run the gallery on your local computer, go into the finished smart album folder and double click the index.html file.
Many of these galleries are interactive: they don't do anything till you do something, like turn the pages of the book, click on a photo in the pile to pick it up and look at it, etc.

Cannot Create Web Photo Album

I have Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks CS3. I am unable to create
a Web photo album in DreamWeaver because I get an error saying that
Fireworks 4 or greater is required to create a photo album. I have
the full version of Fireworks CS3.

I have upgraded to DW Studio 8 from MX2004 and have a similar
problem...it's inconsistent though. Sometimes I am able to create
the web photo album with no problems. But tonight it balked and
balked and balked! I wound up opening up DW 2004 and FW 2004 and
created the photo album that way and somehow it linked back to the
DW 8 site. Is there a way to prevent this conflict??
Help!

Created Web Photo Album but Main Photos do not show on centre page in Firefox

Site is
I have used web photo album in this web site. In IE this is showing OK and all images are centralised, however in Firefox the main photo pages are showing to the left can anyone help me please?
http://www.sancere.com/Album/pages/Picture-018_jpg.htm

The page is showing OK in IE because it's in quirks mode - due to the fact that you are not using a doctype. Firefox is showing the page as it really is :-)
I've recoded the page for you - see if this works better.
Notice the doctype at the top of the document. You should use this on every page of your site. Which version of DW are you using if it didn't create the doc type ??
I've moved the body style into the style rules to the head of the document. I've added an ID for the table #gallerytable and applied that to your table.
If you look at the #gallerytable styles, you'll see I've given the table a width and set the margin to auto, which will center the page in both browsers. I've also removed the centering you had in the <td> elements.. no need for that because it's covered in the #gallerytable styling
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<head>
<title>Portfolio of Events / Picture-018.jpg</title>
<link href="../../oneColFixCtrHdr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<table id="gallerytable">
<tr>
<td ><h2>Portfolio of Events/Picture-018.jpg</h2>
<a href="Italy-2008-127_jpg.htm">Previous</a> | <a href="../album.htm">Home</a> | <a href="088_jpg.htm">Next</a><br><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >
<br>
<a href="../images/Picture-018_jpg.jpg"><img src="http://www.sancere.com/Album/images/Picture-018_jpg.jpg" border=0></a><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps :-)

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