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The way the extension works is you add in a special tag—{gallery}myphotos{/
gallery}—into your articles to display all of the photos correctly labeled in the
myphotos folder:
The extension then goes to work The gallery created contains features such as stylish
shadows on each thumbnail, lightbox pop ups to display the original images, and
automatically generated thumbnails for each image
By utilizing the special tag method, you can display numerous galleries within
your content articles and website This offers great flexibility for a site-wide
simple gallery feature
Expose Flash Gallery
Expose is a component, module gallery extension that offers language support It is a
Flash-based tool for offering eye-catching slideshows of your images on the Web:
This extension is based on the stand-alone gallery software called "Expose" which
has evolved to provide support for Joomla! websites This extension offers numerous
features, including nesting of albums, assigning thumbnails to albums, online picture
upload, offline gallery management, watermark addition, and playing slideshows
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With Expose, you can link directly to images, categories of images, or full albums:
Phoca Gallery with Slideshow
Phoca Gallery is a fully-featured image gallery and slideshow extension for Joomla!
It is a component with plugins and modules It also caters for language support:
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Phoca Gallery allows you to create image categories and subcategories, and place
images into these It is possible for images to belong to more than one category,
which provides greater flexibility in displaying images
Image thumbnails are automatically generated for the gallery, with added options
such as watermarking, user access, YouTube support, and numerous gallery effects
to display your image galleries in various ways:
Phoca Gallery comes with a range of available plugins and modules It is possible to
present image galleries and slideshows in both your articles and modules There is
even a search plugin to help Joomla! search through your image categories
Ozio Gallery2
Ozio Gallery is a Joomla! Component, with available modules:
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It can be used to develop complex image galleries with interesting effects thanks to
the Flash features and gallery skins These two features effectively turn this image
gallery component into many different image gallery options:
Ozio Gallery offers you the flexibility of linking directly to the content, or by
publishing your galleries into module positions using the Ozio Gallery module
Containing numerous parameters, this product should satisfy anyone requiring
an interesting Flash-based image gallery feature with slideshow support:
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This extension also offers the ability to show photos from a flickr account, and to
display your flickr images within your Joomla! site:
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JoomGallery
JoomGallery is a Joomla! Component, Plugin, and Module with language support:
JoomGallery offers many features including defining subcategories of galleries,
batch upload of images, user access rights to categories, configurable watermarks,
slideshow support, and the list goes on:
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Image slideshows
A list of Joomla! Image Extensions for creating slideshows is as follows:
RokSlideshow
RokSlideshow is a Joomla! Module that allows you to display a series of images and
captions, and transition between them in a configurable manner
The slideshow is driven by Mootools, providing fades, burns, wipes, and push
effects between the images displayed All in all, the module is capable of 30
different transition effects
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Image information can be displayed and images may contain hyperlinks, a title,
and a description:
RokSlideshow is very flexible and easily customizable It is a great way to display
image slideshows in your Joomla! website and an excellent alternative to Flash
image gallery players
Simple Image Rotator
The Simple Image Rotator module offers a simple image rotating mechanism It is a
lightweight JavaScript alternative to Flash image rotation scripts, but offers a similar
feel in terms of the fading transition The previous image will fade within a few
seconds to the next image, and so on It does what it says on the tin!
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Boncko Cooliris (PicLens) Gallery Plugin
If you happen to use Cooliris for your image galleries, then extensions such as the
Boncko Cooliris Plugin will be right up your street:
You can easily add Cooliris image galleries inside your articles by using the special
tag: {boncko}/img_dir/{/boncko} This plugin will insert all images and Flash
video files from the /img_dir/ directory into your Joomla! content, making your
image gallery look good
This process means you can store and organize your image galleries externally from
your Joomla! site, and suck in the content that you wish Boncko Cooliris Plugin can
even play audio tracks while your image gallery is active
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Some of these have been highlighted because they are popular GPL extensions which
offer great flexibility for creating image galleries and slideshow features
There are many other image gallery extensions available at
http://extensions.joomla.org:
Many new extensions are being made available each week Some of these are free
GPL, some commercial extensions, and others require club memberships to access
Whether they are free or commercial entities, I hope you find a solution for your
image gallery and slideshow requirements
Joomla! Extensions generally provide image solutions for creating galleries and
slideshows within articles or modules You may have a number of other images
loading into your web pages, these are usually contained within your template
Joomla! Template images
Joomla! Templates control the overall look and layout of your Joomla! website They
provide the framework that brings together common elements and they provide the
glue for your layout to interact with modules and components
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