Free Image Galleries
April 15,2009 ♥ Wednesday
Filed under:Galleries


It is just really amazing for us to encounter some image galleries that is built in Flash, Php, Ajax, JQuery, and JavaScript that makes us wonder how this people create such an amazing image galleries like this, that inspires us to create one yet we don’t know where to start. There are some image galleries are for free, some are copyright, some are copyleft, and some offer premium image galleries for a fee. I just want to share with you some of the free image galleries that I know that might actually help you to exhibit your works, drawings, and pictures to the internet.

1. dfGallery 2.0 is one of the most popular and coolest free flash image gallery with its new version that really offers beautiful experience due to its application that really offers a lot of features like;

  • Embed the Gallery anywhere [Blog, Facebook, Myspace...]
  • Themes - Change the layout and the presentation of the gallery [advanced]
  • Skins - Simply edit a PNG file to change the whole look if your gallery [Skin guide in the package]
  • Flickr - Gets every Flickr album of any user [api key customizable]
  • Picasa - Load any picasa album by just configuring the URL
    Custom Albums
  • Full control over the system from the Administration Console.
  • AJAX & Multiple Image Uploads
  • Customize the background music of the gallery
  • Fullscreen feature lets you view images with the highest resolution.
  • Built on Flex 3 SDK
  • More coming in the upcoming builds…


Website | Demo
dfgallery

2. Imagin is a flash photo gallery that can organize photos into galleries and sub-galleries, and create slideshows from them. Or you can browse in a more html and faster way with mouse wheel.

Imagin works by pointing it to a folder that contains photos, everything else is automatic.

Features:

  • Can display: jpg, png, gif, swf, txt
  • Loading a few images in advance, for faster navigation
  • Deep linking - you can go to any state of the gallery by changing the URL, use back/forward browser buttons (html like)
  • Customizable interface: alignments for every element, sizes, cursor, font type
  • You can create your own pages with info. CSS support
  • Keyboard navigation (Space, arrows, Escape), and mouse wheel navigation
  • Images scales down automatically to fit the browser window
  • Can read and display the IPTC metadata of the photo (Caption, City, Location - ex: lat=46.7700125&lon=23.5892987)
  • View photos as slideshow or in the classic way with scrollbar
  • Password protected galleries. Please, if you have nude art, do not hide them.


Website | Demo
imagin

3. Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well… all around easy. Creating an image gallery shouldn’t be a complex thing.

Website | Demo
pikachoose

4. XML Photo Album automatically develops all of your multimedia files into a portfolio presenter. All you need to do is to sort images,audios(mp3),videos(flv) in your data XML file. Extremely easy!

Website | Demo
xmlphotoalbum

5. Minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX/JSON that lets you put easily your images in an online gallery, without having to configure databases or changing and customising code (though you may do it if you feel so) allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.

Features

  • New interface: easier at-a-glance thumbnail navigation and a clean layout.
  • Simple galleries: just upload a folder full of images to your /galleries/ folder and voilá you have a new gallery!
  • Lightbox view: Images can be viewed in a lightbox way, easier and more precise, with a convenient integrated thumbnail menu.
  • Languages: set your gallery in French, Italian or Spanish. Set it to select the user’s local language (if available). Translate it to your own language!
  • Permanent URLs: now you can share your galleries and images with friends and acquaintances. Just copy the permalink for a gallery or an image, and email it to them!
  • Automatic thumbnails: you don’t have to worry anymore about creating your images’ thumbnails. Let minishowcase take care of it
  • Added viewing features: Configurable timed slideshow (for now, more to come)
  • And more…

Website | Demo
minishowcase

6. FlashFlicker Photo Gallery a photogallery made in Flex2/AS3 using Flickr API.
This application let users to browse your flickr pictures, see your sets, tags and notes.
It’s also implemented the flickr authentication for flickr registered user. In this way registered users can also add comments, tags (if allowed) to your images.
In order to use this photogallery you need to have a flickr api key (put the api and secret keys into the Config.as file).
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

Website | Demo
flashflickr

7. SmoothGallery is one of the most famous image gallery that is always used in some premium wordpress theme for Featured Posts. Using mootools v1.11, this javascript gallery and slideshow system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website.

Website | Demo
smoothgallery

8. SlideShow2 is a javascript class for Mootools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website. Slideshow might be used to enhance the presentation of images on your website.

Website | Demo
slideshow2

9. BarackSlideshow is an elegant, lightweight Mootools slideshow script inspired from Barack Obama Official Website

Website | Demobarackslideshow

10. PhotoDiary 1.0 is a web application developed by Webgriffe which lets you to easily publish a brand new photo blog on the web. The application frontend is built upon Flash technology and data is managed through a dedicated web control panel, developed in PHP.

Website | Demophotodiary






    Dear Ayei,

    wow. cool image galleries.. and free pa sila hehe. thanks for sharing sis ayei. muah! haiiszt. pag mey isa pa kong domain itry qu yan! yey!



    much lurve, jei
    April 15, 2009@1:33 am


    Dear Ayei,

    hey sis thanks for shring! i was looking formore picture galleries to use because flickr jut ran out of space for me this weekend :\ thanks!! :D



    much lurve, Ivy
    April 15, 2009@1:35 am


    Dear Ayei,

    lol ang dami pla nyan iba iba - - wala ako alam sa ganyan.

    Thanks sa share bebi :D haha!

    mahilig ka talaga sa mga gnyan ano, hahahha :)



    much lurve, Ms.Candy-Blush
    April 15, 2009@1:42 am


    Dear Ayei,

    :eek: kafatid nakx more on designing itech ah haaha, wwaaa try ko nga ito hahaha madali lang ito dba?i like teh photodiary, parang cool :D



    much lurve, jean
    April 15, 2009@1:45 am


    Dear Ayei,

    nice one.. thank you ate ayeii.. from the exert talaga. i’ll read this one kung magkaka image gallery na ako..jajaja



    much lurve, Nicey
    April 15, 2009@1:48 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow! thanks for sharing sis. a big help for everyone. :eek:
    matry nga. hihi. XD mwah!



    much lurve, cesz
    April 15, 2009@1:50 am


    Dear Ayei,

    aba kinareer tlga yung mga galleries ah… anyways nice collection. marami makikinabang dito. very insightful!



    much lurve, Cryogenix
    April 15, 2009@2:01 am


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for sharing this.. try ko nga..



    much lurve, iish
    April 15, 2009@2:26 am


    Dear Ayei,

    ahi, nice collection uve got^^. wla akong alam sa ganyan but napaka interesting at nyan. hihi^^



    much lurve, jenifaa
    April 15, 2009@2:31 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow… they are cool.. nakaka elib… hehe… panu kaya un ginagawa? haha… thanx for sharing… itatry ko nga din yan.. hehe :smile:



    much lurve, eric
    April 15, 2009@2:55 am


    Dear Ayei,

    you should watch it! o.o i think there are streaming links online cus my friend found one for me and i streamed to watch it ;) tell me what you think of it after? :D



    much lurve, Ivy
    April 15, 2009@3:27 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wew,. thanks for sharing those sis. It helps alot. haha. neon I know na. Thanks sis. :razz:



    much lurve, April
    April 15, 2009@4:07 am


    Dear Ayei,

    :eek: this is so usefuL! biLib nga ako sa mga photo gaLLeries na ganyan!! at feeLing ko, mahirap gawin! hehe, biLib nga aq sau eh, nung nankita ko ung onLine portfoLio mu.. super ganda! Lab et! IdoL tLga kita… :smile:
    xoxo



    much lurve, janile
    April 15, 2009@4:40 am


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for sharing this ate! i want to make a gallery of my own din.
    pero hindi muna ngayon baka mapabayaan ko lng. :???:



    much lurve, Jizni~
    April 15, 2009@4:46 am


    Dear Ayei,

    :eek: andami pa lang free image gallery kala ko dati konti lang kaya stick with flickr lang ako.. that’s amazing :smile:



    much lurve, wyona
    April 15, 2009@4:52 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Gad! Gandang ayei maraming thank you sa pagshare nito!
    I might use this for.. hmm i dunno. Basta! It will come in handy naman for sure ^^ Miss na kita! chill na ha? Love you sis! ^^



    much lurve, Eunice
    April 15, 2009@6:17 am


    Dear Ayei,

    :eek: amazing! thanks for sharing sis..
    i will check on that sites later on..
    oh ya, btw, thanks for the comment and your layout is more cute! esp yr portfolio’s site. :razz:



    much lurve, safiena
    April 15, 2009@6:25 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Wow. This sure helps. I’ma create an online portfolio too. Glad you share this. Thanks pretty ^^



    much lurve, Ericka
    April 15, 2009@6:56 am


    Dear Ayei,

    sis! OMG! you compiled all of this aiyoo! soo nice~~ :oops: i’m going to try the photodiary, haha! thankss for sharing this!! appreciated all yer effort!! :oops: :oops:



    much lurve, REN
    April 15, 2009@9:58 am


    Dear Ayei,

    tnx for sharing that awesome sites. grabeh medyu madami gn pala ung image gallery. makaka help yan para dun sa me mga artworks para ipakita s buong mundo ang talent nila. jejeje



    much lurve, ann
    April 15, 2009@10:39 am


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for the info sis! wanna try one now!! :twisted:



    much lurve, ghera
    April 15, 2009@11:00 am


    Dear Ayei,

    oh this one’s cool ah. thanks for sharing. itll help a lot.



    much lurve, Ayiene
    April 15, 2009@11:18 am


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for sharing, ayei. im considering embedding one on my blog :) <3<3<3



    much lurve, jessica
    April 15, 2009@11:21 am


    Dear Ayei,

    naku,, someday pag need ko na mag gallery,, gagawa na lng ako ng sarili kong script,, hehehe



    much lurve, Pahn
    April 15, 2009@12:52 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    wow! amazing aps may i say, it would be really nice for an online portfolio or manga/comics site ^^ i wouldve been tempted to try this out for my comics but then i thought i only have 1 page of comic per post( in rare cases 3). so yeah i wouldnt be able to maximize its capability XD but still great info ^^ maybe someday



    much lurve, MrZ
    April 15, 2009@1:29 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    may magandang gallery na din mo na sali.. it’s SimpleViewer by Airtight Interactive… It’s a fast, light, and easy to use flash gallery :)



    much lurve, Jehzeel Laurente
    April 15, 2009@1:43 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    wow! sis :) this is very awesome! :smile:
    like totally :) thanks for sharing this. I’ll visit one of them sometime. :razz:

    and oh, thanks for the comment. I really appreciated it ;)
    *hugs



    much lurve, Kat :)
    April 15, 2009@2:49 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    Bongga bebe ah! hehehe labeeet! magamit nga iniisip ko kung anu gagawin ko sa sub ko sa bebigerls eh.. haha na77 na ni bebi deann accnt ko. hehe nawalan kasi kami kuryente. kaw ? 100+!! haha mas adeek keo !!! heheeh :)) yabyuh bebi!!!



    much lurve, nadine
    April 15, 2009@4:25 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    Ang dami mo namang nalalaman. You’re a genius, I’m starting to like you.



    much lurve, Robin
    April 15, 2009@6:37 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    Thanks for the info! Love it..



    much lurve, Clarisse
    April 15, 2009@9:45 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    whoa! nice infos siz! thanks for sharing :3 this will help us someday ^^,



    much lurve, -NiK-
    April 15, 2009@10:38 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    wow andame din pala mga flash galleries ha. pro mejo mas okay padin kng sariling gawa shempre, maging proud ka talaga sa sarili mo. hehehe ^^ buti nalnag inde ako vain haha di ko kelangan nan mashado pero nako i know marami tao cguro milliones na ang pichurs! hehe ^^ digi cam ko nga nawawala na eh. hhuhu. anywhoo, thanks for sharing sis! andami!!! hehehe! ^^

    btw, yup sis sa dragon server ako. talaga holyorder? wow. may nakita ata ako ganun. pro mejo malakas ngaun carnage ata.. well dami nadin nila mga territories.. gs2 ko nga lotus eh. hahaha. la pako clan, antay ko lotus maginvite, well sana lang naman. hahaha >< papalakas nalang muna ako bago gawin huhu so sad.



    much lurve, thea
    April 15, 2009@11:18 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    the features are all nice and I wish I can be like the creator of those program or software… :)

    I will try one of them…

    happy blogging.



    much lurve, liza
    April 15, 2009@11:34 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for sharing those sites sis. Ang dami palang free image galleries.
    hindi kasi ako marunong gumawa nung sa sarili ko lang eh.
    ang natry ko pa lang dyan yung Smooth Gallery. maganda nga ung features.
    mukhang okay rin yung dfgallery and XML Photo Album.



    much lurve, Alyssa
    April 16, 2009@12:52 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Wow, you really know a lot of things. Hehe, thanks for sharing it. Nice info. :] :mrgreen:



    much lurve, Betina
    April 16, 2009@1:14 am


    Dear Ayei,

    iba ka talaga girl, i actually need these infos for my photoblog, wala lang talaga ako time, di ako makapag concentrate coz you know. Pwedi paturo na lang ako sa yo when i hae\ve questions regarding these things? parang expert ka kasi pagdating sa field na yan kaya naman mga works mo are really amazing. THANKS girl! you rock as always **hUGS**



    much lurve, bambie
    April 16, 2009@3:41 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Wow ang amazing naman nyan, fave ko yung Photodiary! :razz:
    Thanks for sharing this! So informative and helpful!~



    much lurve, Cham
    April 16, 2009@8:51 am


    Dear Ayei,

    di talaga nauubusan ng surprise si Ayei oh! hehe. di ko akalain may mga free pala na ganyan! salamt sa pagshare. gusto ko kasi talaga yan eh.



    much lurve, jhoana
    April 16, 2009@9:14 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Thanks for sharing! Now i know na what’s behind those flash galleries. kapag may panahon ako, gagawa ako ng photo gallery ko. hahaha. kaso mahihirapan ata ako sa pagpili. andami ehh. :grin:



    much lurve, Richelle
    April 16, 2009@9:27 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow!! so interesting! It makes me wanna make a photoblog. wahaha. :P



    much lurve, Dianne
    April 16, 2009@10:55 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Woah! SO nice. Thanks for teh info Ate.And i like the slideshow one. :razz: :oops:



    much lurve, Aila Janella
    April 16, 2009@11:49 am


    Dear Ayei,

    that’s really cool one sis,
    thanks foR posting, I’ve seen some kind of thing too
    and I was wondering how was it, and now I have an idea,
    it sounds very confusing but I might as well try it..



    much lurve, Pinklalah
    April 16, 2009@1:22 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    Thanks for posting these, i’m gonna check out each image gallery now. They’re all pretty nifty!



    much lurve, Gel
    April 16, 2009@10:50 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    nice! thanks for sharing those stuffs sis! galing!



    much lurve, krisel
    April 16, 2009@11:22 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    very informative. :) i’m liking numba 8 and 9. :smile:



    much lurve, weng
    April 17, 2009@2:08 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow so many galleries .thanks for sharing ate ayei. hehe pero im not really into galleries haha.



    much lurve, Ieyel
    April 17, 2009@2:13 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Wow, thanks for posting these!! I’m going to go check out each gallery in a minute :) They look great!



    much lurve, Vicky
    April 17, 2009@5:53 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow!
    ang galing! thanks for sharing this :eek: .
    i want to create a gallery too, it seems that i’m lazy to do one :cool: .



    much lurve, Bianca
    April 17, 2009@7:42 am


    Dear Ayei,

    hi ms ayei. thanks for the link add and the warm welcome in the blogging world. hope i can maintain my blog for a long time and really succeed in my goals. i also hope to meet more blogging friends like you. thanks!



    much lurve, Eljon
    April 17, 2009@9:32 am


    Dear Ayei,

    thanks for sharing those free scripts sis! I have tried different image gallery script since before pero nakakatamad din, I’ll stick with multiply.com na lang since uploading photos there is very easy!



    much lurve, Honeul
    April 17, 2009@11:41 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Very nice galleries. Thanks for sharing. I don’t think I will be using a gallery anytime soon unless it’s to share family pictures.



    much lurve, Stephanie
    April 17, 2009@6:58 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    wow. ang cute naman nian. i’ll visit those sites. at hahanap ako ng pinakamagugustuhan ko. i wanna publish my works… kahit pang beginner lang. haha.



    much lurve, Mhaye
    April 18, 2009@12:29 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Nice list. Very helpful. :)



    much lurve, Neex
    April 18, 2009@3:57 am


    Dear Ayei,

    waw. matagal na ko naghahanap ng mga ganyang image gallery eh. thanks for sharing ah.. im gonna use one of them. thanks thanks talaga. buti na lng. :smile:



    much lurve, jho
    April 18, 2009@5:29 am


    Dear Ayei,

    passing by to welcome you as WPP member :D



    much lurve, kengkay
    April 18, 2009@11:00 am


    Dear Ayei,

    oh, thanks for the share.
    I use imagevuex for my flash gallery :) hehehe



    much lurve, Karen
    April 18, 2009@9:01 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    I might be using one of these for my portfolio now! :mrgreen:
    Was having trouble trying to find one but now I think I now which I will be using.



    much lurve, Jackie
    April 19, 2009@12:48 am


    Dear Ayei,

    all I can say is thanks for posting those.. it was really helpful.. =) I might be using one right one since it’s all pretty cool.. lmao



    much lurve, Melle
    April 19, 2009@8:11 am


    Dear Ayei,

    yay! good timing toh sis.. i was planning to make my gallery :D thanks ditoh.. ang gling free pah! good job! :mrgreen:



    much lurve, Karendayle
    April 19, 2009@9:13 am


    Dear Ayei,

    helloo (: ! oh my gosh. I have been looking for some free good photo albums for a while! thank you :D ! so much ;D ! i`ll try them out (: if I can :P but copyleft? ;P haven`t heard about that before :o! interesting :D ! take care ;D !



    much lurve, nancy
    April 19, 2009@11:35 am


    Dear Ayei,

    sissy i miss you
    thanks for sharing those sites,so helpful ^_^
    Im’ma try one of those hihihi

    miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssss you sissy
    luv yah!!!



    much lurve, Yesha
    April 19, 2009@1:19 pm


    Dear Ayei,

    haha! true. attempting :P had lots of attempts!! haha!! cool galleries! thanks for posting them! i’ll try them some time :D



    much lurve, sarabeth
    April 20, 2009@9:33 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Looks interesting. Baka magamit ko toh near future.



    much lurve, Harvey
    April 21, 2009@11:51 am


    Dear Ayei,

    Hi sis.. Thanks for sharing all those sites.. This entry of yours is very helpful for me..



    much lurve, Sweetie_shelo
    April 23, 2009@12:13 am


    Dear Ayei,

    wow. ang cool naman nyan bebi. thanks for sharing! :cool:



    much lurve, Lois
    April 23, 2009@12:23 pm



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