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IMAGIN is a flash photo gallery that can organize photos and create slideshows from them. It has unlimited number of albums and levels of albums-in-albums.

IMAGIN works by pointing it to a folder that contains photos, everything else is automatic.

IMAGIN is a free software and will always be, but if you want to remove the IMAGIN logo read here.

History:

  • July 25 2009 - Documentation updated to reflect the last _preference.xml file. It is not as detailed as the old documentation.
  • July 24 2009 - Updated to beta5: Some important changes: added infinite levels of albums, not just galleries and subgalleries. Improved navigation and added a new one, so the navigation value can take: gestures, normal, floating, none. Custom pages can load any file you specify in the _info.txt. Can load pano2vr swfs (more details later). Can create external link in the menu. Comments page changed. Can read EXIF info, can read geodata info.
    With all this said, the next update will be the stable one, i need to hardly test every feature.
  • June 12 2009 - Updated to beta4: Added italian and polish localizations. Back to swfobject 2.1 stable because of some windows users not seeing the gallery. With the release of Safari 4 final, the mouse wheel became to move very slowly, this is solved in beta4.
  • June 5 2009 - Updated to beta3: Added localization in 8 languages. Added "timeline_always_expanded" in _preferences.xml. Some minor bugs fixed, and updated to swfobject 2.2 beta. E-mail address from comments is not stored as a valid e-mail.
  • June 2009 - Added Mac and PC desktop executables
  • May 30 2009 - Updated to beta2: Lots of changes and improvements (800 downloads)
  • March 2009 - First beta of the new IMAGIN v3 (6000 downloads)

Features:

  • Can display: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, swf, txt, pano2vr
  • Loading a few images in advance, for faster navigation (buffer)
  • Deep linking - you can go to any state of the gallery by changing the URL, use back/forward browser buttons (html like)
  • Customizable interface: alignments for every element, sizes, cursor, font type
  • You can create your own pages with text styled by CSS, contact forms, or loading any of the suported files
  • Keyboard navigation (Space, arrows, Escape), mouse wheel navigation, gestures.
  • Images scales down automatically to fit the browser window
  • Can read and display the IPTC metadata of the photo (Caption, City, Location - ex: lat=46.7700125&lon=23.5892987). Can read the EXIF exposure time, aperture, iso speed, and geodata.
  • View photos as slideshow or in a html-like way with scrollbar
  • Can display your Flickr photos (you need to have photosets on flickr) - My Flickr photos
  • Password protected galleries.
  • Infinite levels of albums
  • Multilingual

To finish

  • Admin panel (which will not be free) and because i'm asked all the time when will this be ready... i can't promise anything. Thank you!

Reserved for the future

  • iPhone version
  • Page Flip View
  • 3D View

Localizations

I'm searching for people to translate the gallery in their native language. Right now we have:

Before begining to translate i recommend you to ask, maybe someone else began it already. Thanks!


Note: In order to use Romanian, Russian, Turkish or Polish languages you need to set:

  • font_type="fonts/helvetica_all.swf" (or arial_all.swf) - otherwise I don't recommend this fonts because they are much larger than the others
  • font_type_menu="custom" (the "default" font have only basic chars)
  • localization="localizations/your_language.xml"

Contact

Feel free to contact me for anything, I always answer to my e-mails.
cristi [@] imagin.ro

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