Photo galleries

Gallery vs. Coppermine

These seem to be the leading photo gallery web applications. Each has different strengths. Both are great if you want to organize and share photos with others, either everybody or specific groups.

If you're looking for better performance, you might check out one of the desktop photo galleries instead.

These two web applications share many features:

• Multiple albums
• Permissions system
• Automatic thumbnailing and image resizing
• Image watermarking
• Multiple ways of uploading, using forms or direct import from the filesystem

Gallery

Gallery seems to have slightly more features than Coppermine. Here's some benefits with Gallery:

• RSS feeds
• Embeddable into PostNuke, Mambo, and other content management systems
• Java applet for uploading pictures
• Back-end API for uploading/managing pictures (but not WebDAV--possible contribution?)

... and not so much a benefit, but a difference is the album structure. In Gallery, you can nest albums within albums. There are no categories, only albums and nested albums.

Coppermine

The main benefit of Coppermine is usability--it's a bit easier to figure out, for both administrators and users. Other benefits:

• More polished interface
• Stores data in a database, instead of the file system--access from other applications
• Can add substantial amounts of introductory text--a better mix of text and pictures

... the organization of Coppermine is a series of categories, each of which can contain other categories and/or albums. Albums do not include other albums--you use categories to group albums.

Everyone can see all categories, but you can designate any album to be viewable only to a particular group of users.