photon photo album 0.4.4

Photon project is a photo album with a clean design.

Here are some key features of "photon photo album":

· static HTML pages (you can put all pages and images on a CD-ROM)
· slideshow (use javascript optional)
· can use gimp to resize picture for greater quality
· navigation between the image can use the keyboard (use javascript optional)
· work on any browser (Mozilla, Netscape Navigator 4.x, Konqueror, Opera)
· Each image can have a comment (with HTML tags)
· Information about the image (if taken from a digital picture) can be draw
· thumbnail image size can be choosed by the user
· output images can be scalled down
· control the number of thumbnail in a page
· movie support (new in 0.4.0)
· w3c compliant

Requirements:

· Python >=2.1
· Python Imaging Library It's the library use to load image, resize (optional if you have gimp)
· EXIF library (included in this package but optional)
· Gimp for better quality (optional)
· dcraw to decode RAW files (optional)
· Some photos and free space disk

How to build a gallery:

The quick start:
# photon -o myoutputdir /photos

Use the gimp plugin
# photon --resize-plugin=gimp -v -o myoutputdir /photos

Change the size for all images and the thumbnail keeping the original photo (0)
# photon --sizelist=0,1600x1200,800x600 --thumbsize=320x240 -o myoutputdir /photos

My current command line:
# photon -a -m -z -s 640x480,800x600,1280x1024,1600x1200 -o /tmp/torcy /torcy

See photon --help for a list of switch

What's New in This Release:

· This release has a template engine, MJPEG support in the AVI movie, and some fixes to be w3c compliant.



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