There have been numerous threads with links to free photo software programs, and there are often links to many other programs in each thread. My goal here is to compile a list of free (and possibly include cheap software). Please feel free to post descriptions of the programs, as well as other programs (with links). -David
Photo Management Software (Album and Editting Programs)
Image Magick or NetPBM - pick which image manipulation package you have on your server or want to use.
Auto Rotate Images - Gallery can look at information in pictures from digital cameras and automatically rotate them as needed.
Image Quality and Size Defaults - You can limit the quality and size of images so that when images are uploaded, Gallery will resize them to save space.
Main Gallery Page Settings - The configuration wizard contains all of the settings for how the main Gallery page looks and acts including showing or hiding the album tree, search engine, or album owner, and what frames to show around albums.
Optional Binaries: zip, jhead, jpegtran - If you have these programs on your webserver, you can enable them to make gallery work better and be more flexible.
Languages - Choose which languages you want your Gallery to support and how the user is presented with the choice.
Email Support - Set up email support to have your Gallery email users when their accounts are created or when they forget their password, email you copies, email people when the Gallery is updated, and more!
Gallery-wide Slideshow - enable or disable a slideshow that includes all pictures in the gallery
Commenting - turn off or on the public commenting system and configure it.
Logging - enable logging with syslog or the Windows logger
RSS publishing - publish your Gallery with RSS!
Album Defaults - set defaults for the way that all new albums will originally look
Thumbs generates thumbnails for an entire folder tree. Not just one folder at a time
Thumbs generates in index page linking all the folders
Thumbs links all the thumbnail pages to each other with Prev and Next buttons
Thumbs optionally makes auto scaling partial screen pages so that the images can be viewed by anyone
Thumbs links the partial screen pages to each other with Prev and Next buttons for easy navigation.
Thumbs uses the original size image for the partial screen pages so less space is used.
Thumbs can include thumbnails for MPG video files
Thumbs can be run again on the same folders of images and it will "do the right thing". It will not generated thumbnails for its thumbnails.
Thumbs includes the files to make your CD autorun in Windows so your index page will show up automatically when the CD is inserted into a Windows based machine.
CKRename is a handy utility you can use to perform batch file renaming operations. It provides a three-pane interface: One to select a path, one to display the contents of the current path, and the last to show the effects of the renaming options you've chosen. You can eliminate file names, insert strings before or after file names, or replace file names completely. You can also choose to sequentially rename your files, change file extensions, change case, and perform string substitutions.
VCDEasy is a VideoCDs (VCD/SVCD) authoring tool that allows you to play/watch your videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), your pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and your audio files (music, audio comments,...) directly on most of the home DVD players, without having to buy a DVD Writer and DVD discs. A VideoCD ("Video Compact Disc") is stored on a CD (CD-R or CD-RW)... a cheap way to make DVD-like discs at home!
For the VCD listing I have used VCDEasy which has some nice features including converting Roxio created VCD's to be able to play the files as mpg in regular MS Win MediaPlayer. There is a trial version:
Also, Picasa seems to be constantly running in the background, does anyone know if any of these Free Photo Software do not run in the background (and only launches when media is attached)?
I can speak for Irfanview which is a local application and does not run in the background, You can pretty easily set it as the default viewer for jpg or what ever you want for other supported file types.
There is also a really cool program that's freeware from www.trivista.com called A Square Image. It works great and also does JPEG compression. Just go to trivista.com and click on free trials, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on A square Image to DL. It's a really small program too. Hope this helps with your list.
First off OP, thanks for this listing and all the work behind it!
Secondly, my little addition to the list: I use the freeware verion of Coffeecup Viewer to help create thumbnail webpages. Its very simple and easy and takes no time. You then just take the directory that the software creates and place it into your web. Its great for someone like me that doesn't know much of coding but rely on software like Frontpage.
thanks for this great post. I have a question. does anydody knows which has best features to enhance the photos(like red eye or change glow, brightness etc.)
**** FREE web photo album & thumbnail generating software! I use it myself, awesome freebie!
Easy to use. Just drag and drop an image folder onto JAlbum, select an output directory and press "Make album"
Use any web browser to view the generated albums. No special viewing software needed. Albums can be served from any web server, a local harddisk, CD-ROM etc.
Album appearance can be highly customized through use of skins (HTML template files, style sheets, customized icons etc). Create your own album look by making your own skin! (Requires HTML skills)...includes a collection of templates.
Can create albums with text and comments in any language. JAlbum itself speaks 17 languages.
JAlbum supports deep hierachies of image folders. Each folder is represented by a folder icon in the resulting web. You can easily organize thousands of images.
Movie files like mpg, avi and wmv can also be added to albums, not just images.
Integrated smart FTP client with synchronization ability so you publish the created album on the Internet in a snap.
EXIF support. Camera make, shutter speed, aperture and other metadata can be extracted from images and used in albums
Image filters can be plugged in to enhance images during album generation, adding watermarking, logos etc. An open API and source code example are provided so developers easily can add new filters.
Really advanced album functions can be scripted in a Java-like language called BeanShell. This allows for limitless extensions to JAlbum.
It's a JavaBean! The inner engine of JAlbum is a JavaBean meaning that you can easily integrate it into existing Java applications. An example could be inside a webserver for automated album generation. Here is an API for the bean.
It runs in console mode too (shell window). This allows for easy automation repeating album generation tasks through batch files etc.
Runs everywhere. It's Java so it runs on Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX, OS/2, eComStation... Any platform that supports Java 1.3
It's free and that's no bull. No expiration dates. No nag screens. No adware. No spyware. No bad conscience
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