[Discuss] Photo Manager

[gruntly at gmail.com (Theodore Ruegsegger)]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Theodore Ruegsegger <gruntly at gmail.com> writes:
>> I've built a web application called Photo Album Manager that manages
>> all metadata in a PostgreSQL database. Not sure that counts as
>> lock-in, since it's all free software and it's easy to migrate data
>> from one RDBMS to another.
>
> Okay, why did you do this instead of using something like Gallery2?
> http://gallery.menalto.com/

Short answer: I started this over a decade ago. Looked at the
available packages and they didn't meet my needs, especially scale
(tens of thousands of photos) and searchability. Checked from time to
time but found that the community seemed to be focused more on pretty
"skins" than efficient management of large collections. A quick look
at the Gallery site suggests it's worth another look. I can't find
anything that looks like a simple walkthrough or tutorial, whence I
could easily get a clear idea what it does and how it looks; I'd be
grateful for a pointer to one. Failing that, when I have a chance,
I'll set it up and try it.

Ah, looking over the Gallery site again, I see a big difference.
Sharing your photos requires not only a website to host them but that
that website have PHP and DBMS support to run Gallery. Photo Album
Manager/PhotoTrove requires a webserver with PHP and PostgreSQL to
manage photos and assemble albums but the finished albums can be
uploaded to any website as a static set of HTML pages or simply burned
to a CD to display on any computer, no website required.

Longer answer:
Why Another Photo Album Manager?
http://www.tux.org/~tbr/photoalbummanager/doc/desiderata.html

Regarding tutorials, walkthroughs for Photo Album Manager:
How to Build and Edit a Photo Set (with screenshots)
http://www.tux.org/~tbr/photoalbummanager/doc/howtoset.html

User's Manual (with screenshots)
http://www.tux.org/~tbr/photoalbummanager/doc/usermanual/

The Photo Album Manager is still available and still works fine, but
if you get serious about using it, let me know and I'll make the
considerably improved (more features, fewer annoyances) PhotoTrove
available.

Ted