Simply put our photo gallery management software is an interactive collection of photo's or photo albums. Each gallery contains as many photo albums as you want. Administration of the photo albums are done entirely via an intuitive, web interface. You don't need special privileges or programming skills to configure and maintain it. As an administrator of the photo gallery you start off with only one user, the Administrator, which can do almost anything with the photo gallery. You can create albums or privileged users who can be granted permission to create and maintain their own albums or who have just enough privileges to view a protected album.

An album is a sub-section of the photo gallery software. It can contain pictures and movies. It can have specific permissions (e.g., some users can modify it, some users can add to it). The album owner is typically the chief maintainer of an album, but the owner can grant those permissions to other Gallery users.

If you have the appropriate permissions, you can add photos to an album. You can add photo's to it one at a time or up to 10 at a time using the web based "Add Photos" dialog. With the added ZIP file support, a faster alternative is to upload a ZIP file full of photos and movies or even specify a web page and let photo gallery software go and slurp all the photos and movies off of that page for you (it'll let you pick which ones you want). A fourth option is to copy images to your web site directory and let the photo gallery copy them directly into your album. As photos and movies are added to the album, Gallery will resize them and make thumbnails of them for you. The photo gallery software will also allow you have albums within albums so you can organize sets of albums together. You can choose which album you want to be the highlight, just as if it were a photo. You can move albums and ranges of photos in and out of other albums.

A photo or movie is the basic unit of Gallery. Photos and movies are grouped together into albums. Once you have the photos in your album the fun begins. Typically an intermediate resized version and a thumbnail of the image are created for you. You can:

Each album's appearance can be customized by its owner in a variety of ways. You can change the title, colors, background, fonts, and borders. You can also specify a target thumbnail size and a target intermediate photo size (so that folks with lesser bandwidth can view smaller versions of large images). The number of rows and columns in an album is customizable, as well as a variety of viewer options.

A user (provided the admin allows it) can create a new album. This user (the creator of the album) is the album's owner and can modify the album's permissions. You can grant read, write, modify and delete permissions to individual users on a per-album basis. Owners and the Administrator always have all permissions.