Web Galleries and Captions

I know that in order to show captions in a Web Gallery you must copy the caption into the Version Name field. For the most part that works okay, but some of my captions are longer than the image is wide, so it gets cut off. Yes, you can see the whole thing by mousing over it in the index or selecting the I-button to flip it over. Neither of those are intuitive to my viewers, however, and even the I-button field isn't quite long enough for a couple of them.
I found an Aperture plugin that makes a flash-based gallery with Captions that can be exported to a folder. The plugin is called "Flash Album Exporter." Its only downside is that you must export it to a folder and then upload it to your iDisk. If you are hosing somewhere besides MobileMe, that is fine, but I prefer the simplicity of one-click publishing directly to MobileMe.
Is there a better solution for this?

Bob,
When captions are a key factor, I publish as a Web Page, and not Web Gallery. The features of easy downloading for the viewer is not there, nor is the full screen slideshow, but it is a good choice to provide images of an event where the viewer may not have been there themselves and need lengthy captions.
With a Web Page, you can keep the version name, and simply also provide the info you enter into the Caption field of the metadata.
Ernie

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The new version of iWeb allows for "album" pages that serve as a collection of all the photo and mvies pages that are in a site. This is pretty slick, and allows one to re-order the photo pages exactly like one can re-order photos on one of the photo pages.
I am playing with web galleries, and notice that you can create a widget for a gallery for any iWeb page. When I do this on my album page, the widget shows up, but does not act like or interact with the other picture pages. It is simply a "widget" that sits on the page where it is placed. Has anyone figured out how to get a (link to a) gallery to act like one of the photo pages?
-=[doug]=-

I'm searching the forum for a solution to this too; web galleries look cheap next to the albums, and there's no reason for it. Short of changing all of my albums to galleries, here's my temporary solution, but it's a half-measure:
1) Drop a square on top of your .Mac Web Gallery widget that's just a bit larger than the widget.
2) Select the square, and in the Inspector, go to the Graphic Inspector, and under Stroke, select Picture Frame.
3) Select the frame that matches your album's format, then resize the square until it's just about the size of the widget, or provides the desired border width around the widget.
4) Move the square backward, behind the widget.
5) If desired, add a dummy album name beneath the gallery for visual continuity.
See my example here: http://www.vehphoto.com/sandrift/Photos/Photos.html
This worked for me because I'm using a white background and white frames; your mileage may vary depending on what theme and picture frames you're using. (I can't recall if I enabled additional frames in the Inspector as described in the Keynote forums - if a matching frame appears to be missing in the Inspector, let me know and I'll double-check this.)
Still, it's a sub-optimal solution, because 1) the widget cannot be resized 2) the widget still contains the gallery name, and 3) widgets cannot be rearranged the way albums can - they probably have to be segregated from albums.
I'll be posting feedback on this at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
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.Mac - galleries and caption

I've searched the forum trying to figure out how I can add captions (actually I would like to use a combination of headline and caption) to photos in a web gallery but only found posts that suggest that this can only be done from iPhoto.
I've tried and I have no problems adding a caption in iPhoto but haven't been able to do this in Aperture. Is it really true that this can't be done in Aperture???

This problem is extremely irritating. For all the 'good looks' of .mac/mobleme's web gallery, you can change the desired order of albums on the MobileMe gallery page until the cows come home, but it doesn't stick. Something that a 10 year old could do with hard coded HTML seems beyond the ability of Apple's web 2.0. This is just one of the really limiting shortcomings of .mac web galleries: No ability to display captions (version names only). No ability to display photo locations via geotagging (esp. now the iphone, and Aperture, can do such). Frequent problems when trying to update an already published gallery (trying to add in a new photo from Aperture is hit or miss for me). So far, galleries remain a great concept with poor execution. Is anyone at Apple listening?

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I've mainly been learning Aperture's photo management and adjustments and until today have ignored web albums and books.
Just had a play with making your own galleries for the web and I love the integration of captions. Was thinking I would have to rewrite all of these for my own website. At this stage does the Aperture webpages offer key word searching for website visitors? I'm guessing not but that would be a cool feature. I'm tired of waiting for google etc to work out searching jpeg embedded iptc data.
My main concern is how adaptable are the Aperture webpages to integration with one's existing website. The original concept of my own website was to add an image gallery with shopping cart facilities where people can click on an add to cart icon below each image. Would it be easy to integrate shopping cart facilities to the Aperture generated webpages?
I also wanted to have articles which use my images - I guess the webjournal could be used for that. Again, would it be possible to integrate a shopping cart into that as above?
One last dumb question - I exported a webgallery with one image just as an experiment and see it creates an index.html file. If I want to integrate this into my website (which already has an index file) do I just change the Aperture index file to something like imagegallery.html with an appropriate link on my own website. Or is it more complicated? And what about images I add later on and then export. Do they go to the same export folder and does changing the index file complicate this?
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i have posted a thread in the Aperture Assistant forum about this, and am looking for the same functionality.
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Are web galleries able to be password protected?

Ok Christoph, I think I see what you're saying.
You can only set one password for the top level Web Gallery index page - you would like to send people to gallery.mac.com/mygallery#gallery and depending on how they log on they would then get access to different content - a bit like having more than one gallery really via login/password.
Is that correct?
You probably know that you can set separate login names/passwords for the individual albums on the gallery top level page. You do this in iPhoto by choosing a gallery, clicking Settings, then Album Viewable by - Edit names and passwords.
This would allow you to have top level albums viewable by all, and other albums by individual login/passowrds. The problem with this though is that you can't tell which album you can access for a given username which might confuse people, unless you named the album accordingly Work - Office Party, Family - Joe's Birthday or something and told people which category Work/Family/etc they could access with their logins.
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Hey all,
I've got a question regarding the MobileMe web galleries. I'm pretty sure that you can create them in three places; Aperture, iPhoto and iWeb. So my question is kind of relating to two methods of creating and collaborating web galleries.
Say that you've created a web gallery in iPhoto in a pinch but use Aperture primarily. Now you're on Aperture and want to continue to update that gallery. Is there a way to migrate that gallery from iPhoto to Aperture. Or, and this is my situation more specifically, say you're on vacation and create an Aperture based web gallery on your Macbook. Now you're back home and want to continue using and updating that web gallery but are now on the Mac Pro. Can that gallery be migrated from the Aperture database on the Macbook over to the database on the Mac Pro?
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More info here:
[Aperture on multiple computers|http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/09/managing-aperture-2-on-multiple-comp uters>
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Updatable web galleries, and intelligent upload

It should not be necessary to recreate a web gallery every time you add an image or two to an existing collection which corresponds to that web gallery. Somehow the content and format of the gallery needs to be saved so that you can just update the existing web gallery, adding only the new images and updating the thumbs database as needed.
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Bob,
When captions are a key factor, I publish as a Web Page, and not Web Gallery. The features of easy downloading for the viewer is not there, nor is the full screen slideshow, but it is a good choice to provide images of an event where the viewer may not have been there themselves and need lengthy captions.
With a Web Page, you can keep the version name, and simply also provide the info you enter into the Caption field of the metadata.
Ernie

New iPhoto web galleries and iPhone

I've made several web galleries via the new iPhoto and put them on my .mac site. When I go to view the gallery from my iPhone I never get past the login window. I type the password really carefully and it just gives me a new blank login window again. It works when I check the gallery from my desktop computer.
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AND
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Why doesn't aperature up/downsammple images using
better calculations, some of the pictures here
http://homepage.mac.com/jonwilson/brittaney/ are
sharpened just a bit too much,(most notably 1,2,3,&
7)i found a few other posts that have this problem
but none seem to have to have any answers as to why
it does this. now that Joe has arrived, maybe he can
help?
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Can you post a Photoshop downsampled version of one of the trouble images for comparison? You can open a duplicate version in an external editor, resize and save - when you go back into Aperture it will see the size for that version has changed. Then you can export that version as "Original Size" and it will pretty much be the same as the Photoshop version. I think if the resized version is not larger than the web gallery maximum size it will also pretty much put the resized version in place.

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It appears it's been established that iPhoto automatically sizes uploads to Web Galleries and iWeb albums to 800x600 no matter the resolution of the original picture.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5118968#5118968
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5168599#5168599
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Web galleries, albums, titles and ratings vanishing. Database corruption?

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Dan
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There is a template in iWeb for albums, but not one for iPhoto Web Galleries. You can use the insert .mac web gallery option to get a web gallery onto a page, but is there a way to use the cool album template instead?
It seems so odd that there isn't better integration between Web Galleries and iWeb templates.

Yeah, I'm noticing this, too. Seems a bit of crap work, if you ask me.
I'm kind of unimpressed with the new iWeb. A few "widgets" isn't really all that neat, and I'm shocked they didn't include some sort of iphone theme (like a theme best viewed on an iphone.)
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