Welcome to Gallery 2.0. This is the second release candidate (RC) of Gallery 2, code named “kthxbye”. Please read through this document carefully before installing Gallery 2 and before asking for help. We have taken care to try to answer as many of your questions here as possible. If you don't read this and have problems, we may refer you back to this document as a first resource.
If you’re impatient like us, you just want to get going. The odds are that your system is all set to handle Gallery 2 so just skip right to the installer and start clicking. It should walk you through everything you need to get going. Before you do that though, you really should read the When should I use it? section. If you hit a snag, please come back here and read more before asking questions! Enjoy.
Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. You must have your own website with PHP support in order to install and use it. With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit, delete and other permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. It's great for communities - give accounts to your friends and family and let them upload and manage their own photos on your website!
The final version of Gallery 2 hasn't been released yet. This is an almost final version of the product that you can install and use to get an idea of what it will be like when we're done. You can give us feedback about what you like and dislike, and any bugs that you find. We will try to fix any bugs that you find before the final release. Even though it's not finished yet, Gallery 2 is very stable and reliable!
Gallery 2 is a stable and secure environment for you to store your photos online and share them with your friends. Use it to manage all of your media with confidence. It is reliable, modular, portable and intuitive.
Over three years of design and development have gone into making Gallery 2 the best online photo management product available. We have made it easy to add new features while keeping them in separate modules so that you can customize it to only have the ones that you want. For those of you who like standards, we have strict XHTML compliance but give plenty of power to our themes so that you can make it look the way that you want. It's a powerful application and you're in the driver's seat.