Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support

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What is it?

Album - ^[1] An HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes directories of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need.

Album is a perl script, which means you need to be comfortable with or prepared to use the command-line. If you just want a point-and-click, you may wish to look elsewhere. Features:

• You can use themes to choose or redesign the album "look and feel."
• Recursively descends directories to make a hierarchy of photo albums
• EXIF support, Video thumbnails...
• Has a plugin system that allows you to write perl code to alter the behavior of album.
• Slideshows, transparent overlays, credit tags, easy captions, and endless features!

Look here for documentation: http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Docs/ ^[2]

There are a few photo gallery alternatives:

• Photo Gallery with igal - online image gallery generator
• Photo album using gallery

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

1. Apache or Lighttpd or Thttpd
   1. Apache w/ PHP and MySQL Support (MIPSel)
   2. Apache HTTP server, installing
   3. Lighttpd with mysql and php (LLMP)
   4. Run a second instance of thttpd (on an alternate port)
2. Perl and the script for MarginalHacks:Album^[3]
3. Imagemagick tools (specifically 'convert')

Optional Installation

1. Themes^[4]
2. ffmpeg (for movie thumbnails)
3. jhead (for reading EXIF info)^[5]

Install Jhead

FreeLink

Skip ahead to #Install Album, apt-get will resolve all dependancies for you

OpenLink(PowerPC)

1. Install Ipkg on the Linkstation (for end-users) and enable the NSLU2 Feed: Ipkg Package List: PowerPC
2. Install jhead

wget http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/jhead-latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf jhead-latest.tar.gz
cd jhead-?.?
make
chmod chmod +x jhead 
cp jhead /usr/local/bin

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/jhead-2.5.tar.gz

Install Imagemagik

FreeLink

Skip ahead to #Install Album, apt-get will resolve all dependancies for you

OpenLink(PowerPC)

1. Install Ipkg on the Linkstation (for end-users) and enable the NSLU2 Feed: Ipkg Package List: PowerPC
2. Install imagemagick

ipkg install imagemagick

OpenLink (MIPSel)

WARNING! Untested

1. Install the Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS
2. Install imagemagik from source.^[6]

Download ImageMagick.tar.gz from ftp.imagemagick.org or its mirrors and unpack it with this command:

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz

Next configure and compile ImageMagick:

 cd ImageMagick-6.?.?
 ./configure
 make

If ImageMagick configured and compiled without complaint, you are ready to install it on your system. You need to be root to install. To install, type:

 make install

Install Album

FreeLink

apt-get install album

OpenLink

WARNING! Untested

1. Install the Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS (to get Perl)
2. Download and run Album:

wget http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.tar.gz
tar -xvzf album.tar.gz
cd album-3.12
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cp album /usr/local/bin/
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/album

Running Album

The directions below should provide you with enough to get started. This all came from:

MarginalHacks/Album: MINI HOW-TO^[7]

1. Simple album
2. Add captions
3. Hiding Photos
4. Using A Theme
5. Medium images
6. Adding some EXIF captions
7. Adding more albums

References

1. ↑ http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/
2. ↑ MarginalHacks Album Documentation
3. ↑ http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Download.html MarginalHacks: Album Download
4. ↑ Davepics.com - Snapshots of all Album themes
5. ↑ jhead: Exif Jpeg header and thumbnail manipulator program
6. ↑ ImageMagick: Install from Source
7. ↑ marginalhacks.com Album Documentation: MINI HOW-TO

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