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I am struggling with this question. There are so many options.
Here are the parameters. As part of my site, I want to display about 8000 images.
The heirarchy is:
20 categories, represented by thumbnails
20 galleries in each category, represented by thumbnails
20 pictures in each gallery
The pictures are different sizes and orientations. For the most part, they are way too big to display on the web (3000 x 2000 pixels, 1500 x 2000 pixels, etc), and will need to be resized.
The pictures will need to be watermarked. I can do this in photoshop with recordings/droplets, or maybe it's possible to automate through some other program.
The gallery format I like is where all the thumbnails are visible in rows (let's say 5 rows of 4 each) and clicking a thumb loads the large image inside the page itself. I don't want pop-up windows.
It would be nice to automate the process, and make it easy to update in the future when more galleries are added.
So here is where the options come in.
1) Old School. Resize, watermark images in Photoshop in batches. Create html pages for each gallery. Use javascript to load a fullsize image when a thumbnail is clicked. This would be a ton of work but I could make the galleries look exactly like I want them to, with the rest of my page design around the gallery.
2) Something else. Dynamic pages, scripts, php, stuff that I have not worked with very much. If there is a good solution, I would really love to hear what you might have used for a similar problem.
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