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The feature of the gallery should:
• Highly customizable
• Show all picture  format & video, flash, (integration of sound with the gallery will be great)
• Easy to manage lot of images/movies etc (batch upload) & possibility of categorize and reshuffle the organisation of multiple categories fast
• Ability to customize the access in the frontend— Ex: Thumbnails or directory tree
• Stand alone Mac & Window organizer apps for clients with ftp upload will be great.

Do you think I can integrate in a special HTML module something like Showit at http://www.showitfast.com/ (http://www.showitfast.com/)

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance... ;)

I would use SlideShowPro (http://slideshowpro.net/), with SlideShowPro Director (http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro_director/slideshowpro_director) and SlideShowPro for Joomla (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2135/Itemid,35/).

wouldn't exactly fit your requirements but close and its free. try expose.

Expose was my startup choice but Slideshowpro seem amazing, I conduct the server Test on Bluehost everything is green to go....

How easy is to implement and can you have multiple instance?

and what is this quote from the module on Joomla extension—>

”This module requires Flash MX or greater to generate and requires the SlideShowPro Flash component from www.slideshowpro.net.”

You can use Joomla's copy module function to duplicate the module, and change the xml field for each instance.

Thanks to SlideShowPro for Joomla (soon to be replaced by EasySSP for Joomla! (http://www.joomlashack.com/community/index.php/topic,9698.msg35066.html#msg35066)), installation is really not difficult.

There are now two versions of SlideShowPro: one for Flash and one for Lightroom.

IMHO there is no perfect Gallery solution for Joomla at this time. :-\
Of course I could be wrong and just haven't found the right application.

I need something that allows users to add photos easily and that integrates with the J login for 1.0.

I tried them all until I ran into this free app, and never looked back.  I needed lots of categories with sub categories.  I think it supports the formats you list (including video).  Can be customized and skinned etc.

Link is here: http://phpwebgallery.net/?lang=en

I use it here:  http://www.stevencherry.com

Click "Portfolio."

Agreed. perfect would be one that was native to joomla, central community wide gallery but allowed personal gallery to appear in CB with ability to control who views it, one that will allow the user to query his personal gallery from with in ANY Joomla  content creation interface ( Like MyBlog or Submit content ) one that a person could access though fireboard to place an image in a post AND OR Allow through the same post the ability to upload an image or file and have that file go to his or her personal gallery and have at that upload time an ability to choose if it should be available in CB AND have the choice to allow it's embed code to appear so commentors can place images on their sites ....an ability to e card community members images.. on that creates slide shows that also generate embed code so that slide show can be placed in their profiles on other communities ( Myspace) with link backs to your joomla site,,, one that creates playlists of gallery files also with embed code,, and one that can compress to flv on the fly at upload most  raw and other codecs video files.............

is this to much to ask??   :)

Not at all, I will ask for more. And we want it free! :)

I use a long time the Menalto Galley2.

I don't know if is recommended for your need, but take a look http://gallery.menalto.com/features

I use Expose and SSP

Expose
Very sleek.  Supports video & images.  It looks easy.

SSP
It is more of a gallery for portfolios and of course a slideshow view.  With that said....

I LOOVE ssp.  I own ssp + ssp director.  You will probably need both to do what you want.  ssp director highly uses ajax.  You can drag and drop images to organize with ajax.  1 button activate/deactivate albums with ajax.  SSP color and looks is highly customizable especially if you know Actionscript.  Just go to their website and read their PDF's documentations.
Drawbacks:  It is a flash slideshow, so looking at tons of images at once isn't too pleasing.  Not really for multiple client control.  If you want the client to have some control you are better of buying multiple copies of director.  SSP directory does have user groups, but it is not good at all.  There is only editor, publisher, admin ( or something like that) you can give a person permission to edit images and upload, but it will be for all galleries.  You cant limit which galleries they have permission for.Director has 1 license for 1 domain

   On the upside the new Director coming out will support API which opens tons of possibilities.  Even looking at images without using the flash slideshow.  Slideshow pro alone without director is alright, but your clients might not like it.  You have to manually edit the XML file, and get get messy if you have many galleries and images.

Here is an example how customizable it is IF you know flash http://www.lakecrackenback.com.au/
Heres an example if the new api in Director(beta4) http://www.italyapartments.it/admins/director_api_demo/

END: SSP is more for your own gallery rather then clients.

I choose SSP and director.
The module to integrate SSP made by Joomlashack don’t seem to work in Joomla 1.5.2 and the last version of SSP ( SlideShowPro_for_Flash_188.zip).

Now if I can have some hint on the embedding process to be able to use Director as well.......

Which way do you edit SSP settings? with adobe flash, or standalone version?

Using flash to transform the .fla to .swf.

Upload your swf anywhere convenient in your server. Go to modules, then click on New and create a custom module. then click on Embed media link and put the link to your SWF.

To use director open the .fla and set the ssp setting called xml to 'director' instead of images.xml

To access your director its http://xxx.com/directorpath  You can't embed director into joomla if that is what your saying.

m using XHTML suite as WYSIWYG editor and they will have a flash embed button on the next version....

for now I use:

Everything work well now, but the full screen button don’t work... I try to implement with <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> but it’s not working????

when i try to install the zoom media gallery or  Pony Media Gallery, i had this error line... please help me!



Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/people/public_html/administrator/includes/pcl/pclzip.lib.php on line 3360

Have a look at DatsoGallery (http://www.datso.fr)

Have you downloaded the latest flash player?

Yes, yesterday.
Do you think that way to embeded is OK.

I'm not sure,  go to their support forums.

Datsogallery does not seem to have English translation for their site. How can one understnad what they are offering?

Translate using Google or Babel Fish

i need a gallery for one of my site where.

1. users can upload pics in the front end.
2. create their own folders (viewable by others)
3. have comments, ratings etc.
4. preferably free  ;D

After installing SSP, I Highly recommend it for any professionnal use. For the comment, just add another position and use a free comment system.....
Not free but very good.
Ex: http://www.grafcomm.ca/joomlagraf/hivemind/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=10 (http://www.grafcomm.ca/joomlagraf/hivemind/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=10)
and the backend control is perfect....

SSp is more to displayer only Your personal gallery (Portfolio).  I'm not sure whats out there, but I would go either with Gallery2 or Coppermine.

the only problem you may have with Gal 2 and Copper is getting a good working personal gallery for members ( if your site is a social community)  AND  you create additional membergroups besides the native Joomla ones.

other than that Copper is a great solution for site wide gallery AND personal gallery,, it allows private and public view,, e cards and with Stramms BB code plugin allows for embedding images into other communities like myspace and such.

Tried with both gallery2 and coppermine. bridging them with joomla. both needs a lot of tinkering. and both bridges gave me a headache. Lots of errors. i would have picked gallery2. but i lost hope with all the errors that i got. Are there any other galleries that will allow my users to have thier own gallery? And yes CG Icon, my site is a social community.

if social is your goal and I mean a TRUE social community,and you use Joomla and CB ??  no,, there really is not a single solution to create a true social community media gallery,, ( and I do not know why any one has not jumped on this opportunity to make one )

  I have gone through every gallery,, patching and hacking,,, all fall short ,,

Alright I found 2 more.

CB gallery plugin
These gives each member their own personal gallery that will be showed only in their profile.  It shows that it is only for 1.0, but I just used it for joomla 1.5.3 & CB 1.1.  It is in beta phase to use at own risk.

I notice *for me* that when I click on a image to view it, it does not work hence beta version, although if I put it on table view rather then default thumbnail or lightbox it works.
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,745/Itemid,35/

I use Gallery2 and I don't change it for anything.

In my case thought I didn't need anyone to be a member through Joomla so I integrated Gallery2 with phpbb3 and it works great.  I get the images I want to display in Joomla with the external imageblock of Gallery2  with the help of Jumi.

In fact I think I won't be using Joomla anymore for this site as I decided to concentrate on Photos and Joomla is not needed that much. :(

You have here nant's gallery. i already have this installed for my users. its great but what i want if to have a single page where all photos that will be uploaded by the members will be displayed. just sorted by folders with thumbnails.

What you describe ZOOM gallery did well... though it has fallen to the side and doesnt work very well anymore with updated Joomla,, unless you are prepared to "fix it" yourself.