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

Organize your images using tags.

* Vista Photo Gallery main area has three display modes: small icon, large icon and details.

Small Icon - an arrangement of icons in a main area which uses smaller icons and alphabetizes across the window.
Large Icon - an arrangement of icons in a main area that uses a larger icon. Arranged alphabetically across the window.
Details view - shows the picture properties across the main area, like Caption, Date modified, Size.

* On the fly filtration of your pictures by tags, date and folders.

* The tooltip with oversize picture and detailed information appears when you hover over the pictures.

* Full size picture preview. Your picture will scale proportionally when you resize your browser window, and the picture will always stay at the center.

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'.

Adding folders with images or images to website album.

From the Images menu, select Add images... Browse to the location of the folder you'd like to add and select the images. Vista Photo Gallery will now include that folder. Or you can drag the images (folder) to the Vista Photo Gallery window. The image is copied to your pictures folder and automatically added to your website gallery.

If you have included the images that you do not wish to be in the website photo album, you can easily remove them. Select all images that you wish to remove from web site album, and select Delete images.. from the Images menu. You can pick and choose pictures by holding the CTRL while clicking the pictures you like.

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.