Share Photos On Your Own Website Using Flash Photo Gallery
The use of a photo gallery can range from a set of happy snaps of the grandchildren to a collection of sales oriented images.
The common theme here is the presentation. Initially photos were expensive to store on the web because of their size. These days that is not an issue as storage is cheap, and most people are browsing the net with broadband connection.
What counts now is the quality and fitness for the purpose. Happy snaps and sales imagery both share the need for captioning and ease of maintenance. This is where professional web photo gallery software comes in. It allows you to group like images, to name and discuss them and to present them in both full and thumbnail size.
So what is the difference between a set of BMW photos to drool over and a set of drooling grand kids? Apart from the obvious images, there is only the method of presentation. In other words, the template. The kid's photos would likely be on a light or colored background with thicker borders whilst the BMW photos would be set on a shiny black background with a pencil thin frame of white or silver.
More and more websites these days feature a flash based photo gallery on their website. Most flash photo gallery software are easy to use and comes with templates to suit any purpose. You can then organize marketing imagery on a web site or on a CD for distribution to prospects. The base technology is flash, so it can be embedded in most applications and is operating system independent.
There is another, more subtle benefit of using a flash photo gallery. The base files stay on your computer. You can swiftly and easily modify the presentation easily and upload it. If the site gets hacked or hit by a worm, you can rapidly reload.
Many of the shared image services on the web consider your photos to be free from copyright and allow their free use. Flash photo gallery will protect your images from copying using the old right click trick. This is of little consequence if they are just happy snaps. If however they are graphic work that you have paid for, it is a totally different story.
In conclusion, a flash photo gallery will provide you with the ability to present a set of images in a stylish and professional manner at minimal cost.