TURN YOUR PHOTO COLLECTION INTO AN AJAX-POWERED WEB GALLERY IN A FEW CLICKS!

Organize your images using tags.

One of the many useful features of Vista Photo Gallery is it's built in ftp client. This means that you can upload your gallery to your web server in the same environment in which you are developing it.
To use the built-in ftp client, go through the following steps:

1) Start Vista Photo Gallery.
2) Create your gallery or open your project.
3) Click "Publish Gallery" button on the toolbar.
4) In the next step you have to specify the technique you are going to use to connect to the server i.e Publish to folder / Publish to FTP server. In our case we are using FTP.
5) In the 'FTP Location Manager' window specify your domain name without the 'http' protocol, for example: domain.com and not http://www.domain.com.
6) Then enter your FTP username and password.
7) To test the connection, simply click the 'Test FTP Location' button. Then click 'OK'.
8) Now you should specify the remote folder path where you are going to upload the files i.e 'www/gallery'.
9) Then simply click 'Publish'.

Sorting of your images.

All images in your web page gallery are sorted in different ways:

• by folders, as they are situated on your local drive. So, you can save your file structure in the web site gallery, for example:
  
• by date, for example:
    2008/
       February/
         Feb 5, Tuesday
         Feb 6, Wednesday
         Feb 11, Monday
         ...
  
• tagging

  A tag is a description of what is in the picture. What makes tags useful is that if you know what is in the photo, it is easier to search a huge collection for photos that match that tag.

  

  You can apply tags in a variety of ways to help you organize and find photos in your web page album. You can add tags when you first add an image to your collection, or you can select an image, or multiple images, to tag at any time.

Image info.

When you select an image you'll see the various information about it, such as:

• Caption - you can enter any comment or text about the image (up to 512 symbols) in the website photo gallery.
• Tags - when you select an image all tags applied to it will be shown. You can easily add new tags to the selected image or delete some tags.
• File Info - for each image, you will see the file name, full folder path; file size and date of last change.
• EXIF Property - you'll get detailed info about your photos: digital camera model, exposure time, focal ratio, focal length and much more..