Coppermine and DAlbum

Online photo sharing is one of the more popular applications on the Internet. Whether your goal is business or personal, your Concentric^® account includes a choice of tools to add photography to your web site. Coppermine is a multi-purpose, fully featured, and integrated web picture gallery script for the sophisticated user. DAlbum is an easy way to upload and share your photos on the Internet.

Photo Hosting Uses

• Promote products and services
• Share memories with family and friends
• Provide marketing collateral and PDF's to customers
• Real estate marketing
• Online art galleries
• Send E-cards

Photo Hosting with Coppermine

The Coppermine application supports photo, multimedia and data files and features a user-friendly, picture gallery script written in PHP. It uses an ImageMagick^® library with a MySQL^® backend. The Coppermine photo gallery can be private (restricted to registered users) or open to anyone who visits your site.

Coppermine Features:

• Arrange pictures in categories and albums
• Manage private galleries and groups
• Display photos using an automatic slide show
• Upload multiple photos via FTP (administrators can batch-add to a database)
• Get support for multimedia
• Create thumbnails and re-size photos
• Search for photos
• Last added
• Random picture
• Search by caption, title, description, and user-defined fields for each photo
• Multi-lingual
• Make comments on photos
• Rotate images
• Display photos as a clickable filmstrip
• Allow viewers to submit comments or vote for photos

Photo Hosting with DAlbum:

DAlbum is an easy-to-use, popular online photo album. It is small, simple to set-up, and highly customizable. Features include slide shows, image comments, and support for video and PDF files. DAlbum also includes the unique ability to password-protect albums, allowing only authorized access. DAlbum is capable of displaying 800x600 pixel images on 1024x768 desktop without scrollbars, instead of tiny images.

DAlbum Features:

• Operates similar to Windows Explorer
• Scales large images to fit
• Automatically creates thumbnail previews
• Password protects albums to allow only certain users to view
• Creates slideshows
• Adds comments to images
• Supports 16 languages
• Album viewers have access to original full-size images for printing
• Links to individual albums and images can be sent by email
• Album look and feel can be completely customized using templates or CSS style sheets