Publisher review:ImageFolio Professional Edition fully automates the process of viewing, publishing, and maintaining your web-based multimedia image gallery. ImageFolio fully automates the process of viewing, publishing, and maintaining your web-based multimedia image gallery.
Unlike other products, ImageFolio has the unique built-in ability to sharpen, crop, resize, and reformat your source JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PDF, and other image formats, to produce thumbnail and preview images, in batch or manual format, without requiring you to install third party software.
ImageFolio runs on all flavors of Windows, Unix, and Linux, including Mac OS X, and supports all media types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PSD, PCD, EPS, PDF, ZIP, MP3, WMV, MPEG, Flash, Real, QuickTime, DOC, XLS, and many more.
Gallery Features:
Lightbox Manager
ImageFolio's Lightbox is a function in ImageFolio that lets users collect their favorite images or files (not just photographs) for use in projects, sharing with friends or colleagues, for personal viewing and downloading, etc. Think of it as an Add to Bookmarks or Add to Favorites.
The Lightbox Manager gives users control over the files they collect to their lightbox. Nobody else can see a user's lightbox, only the user him/herself, unless that user sends a lightbox to someone else.Here is what each user can do:
- Add or remove individual files from the activated lightbox.
- Save multiple unlimited lightboxes
- Rename any saved lightbox
- Send/Email any saved lightbox to another person or themself via email, along with a subject line and comments
- Create new lightboxes
- Delete saved lightboxes
- Download any saved or unsaved lightbox
- Activate (switch to) any saved lightbox
- Dynamic drop down menus on lightbox options
User Registration with Customizable User DatabaseIf you enable the Multi-User Mod, and have set up a default group, users can register themselves to gain access to your ImageFolio gallery.
You can customize the user registration database/signup form to fit your needs. Do you need to know their birthday, make and model of car, hobbies, or pet names? No problem, you can do it.
Lots of Skins and Skin Configuration Options (8 new, 10 total skins)In ImageFolio, a skin is a theme or page design. Each skin is unique and has it's own configuration file, set of HTML templates, and images. You can modify existing skins to create your own custom skin using the duplicate function in your Admin Area Skins Manager.
Page Customizaton / User Self Configuration Options
- Nav - users can choose to use text or graphical navigation (text loads a lot faster)
- Thumb Layout - users choose vertical or horizontal thumbnail info display
- Skin - users can quickly switch to any other available skin
- Dynamic drop down menus on page customizaton options
Global Header and Footer Option
- Set your header and footer in one spot, just one time, and they will appear on all pages and all skins automatically
- Change your header and footer whenever you want
- Use HTML, text, Flash, graphics, anything you want, or nothing at all.
- Header does not have to be "on top" - it could be on the left side, across the top and the left side, etc.
- Footer does not have to be "on the bottom" - it could be on the right side, across the right side and the bottom, etc.
Common Keywords PageKeywords are extracted from your images on each Rebuild Index. Commonly found keywords are then used to create a page of linked search keywords in your gallery.
Keywords are displayed in alphabetical order and sectioned into five columns. Approximate image counts resulting from a search are shown next to each keyword so the user will know in advance how many search results to expect. Users can click any keyword to quickly perform a search.
Improved Image ProtectionAlong with ImageFolio's current watermarking and image leech protection, ImageFolio now offers the following optional image protection:
- Print Protection - users print blank pages instead of your images
- Copy Protection - context menu and right click disabled
- Email Protection - users send blank pages if they email your web page
All Mods (Plug-Ins) Now IncludedIn previous versions these were sold as add-on products -- not anymore. Everything you see in our demo is included. Our demo utilizes the following:
- Lightbox - users collect their favorite images to view, email, or download
- Batch Thumbnail - server-side thumbnailer and preview image creator
- Picture Post - users can upload their files to the categories you permit
- Multi-User - you can have groups of users with defined permissions
- browser-based batch file uploader
- Postcard - users can send images and video as e-cards in HTML or as a link
New Administrative Features
Easy Server Setup, Installation, and Configuration
- Extremely small size and number of files to upload for the install
- You only have to set permissions on one file and two directories
- First time setup sets all other file and directory permissions for you
- Skins downloaded, unzipped, and installed automatically
- Server paths and URLs determined automatically
- Major configuration options can be changed on the fly with a web browser
Skins Manager
- View descriptions and images of skins
- Install new skins
- Remove existing skins
- Restore existing skins to original condition
- Duplicate existing skins to create your own
- Edit skin HTML templates with your web browser
- Edit skin configuration files with your web browser
- Edit skin media templates with your web browser
- Edit (Upload and Replace) each and every image used in the skin with your web browser
Batch Uploading, Thumbnailing, and Preview Image CreationImageFolio has the built-in ability (using our own product ImageConvert) to create thumbnails and preview images, in the quality and size of your choice, when you batch upload your source JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, BMP, GIF, PICT and other files.
You don't have to install any third party software to make this work and you don't need to be on a dedicated server. ImageFolio is currently the only server-based image gallery software product offering a built-in solution for this.
All other products on the market require that you install ImageMagick* or GD2 and most don't even offer batch uploading and processing. ImageFolio can also optionally apply watermarks to your images.
Statistical Overview
Each time you visit the admin home page, you'll see stats, including total users, total groups, total admins, total files, total categories, total common keywords, total disk usage, operating system, last backup date, last rebuild time, etc.
ImageFolio Pro is a Perl script for Image Galleries scripts design by BizDesign, Inc..
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
ImageFolio Pro script details 
