The Free Picture Gallery Making Software is a perfect solution for creating image and photo galleries whether you are creating a gallery to share pictures with friends or family, creating a portfolio for your photography business, or creating a community for photography enthusiasts.

This Web based Free Picture Gallery Maker allows you to post photos in categorized galleries, comment upon and rate the photos, merge your photo gallery with a variety of Web bulletin board systems, as well as allow your visitors to send selected photos to others as e-Cards. As you can see, Coppermine gives you a powerful image gallery.

This Free Picture Album Making Software Coppermine has very minimal server requirements. The latest Coppermine release has tested all right on Apache (vs. 1.3.24 and higher) and on the IIS server that has MySQL and PHP, and also on the GD Library or ImageMagick installed.

Although most servers have these features, you may need to check with your hosting administrator specifically about the GD Library or ImageMagick. These libraries are used to create the image thumbnails which are displayed on the category pages within the gallery.

If you want to manually install coppermine, you can Download Coppermine Website Picture Album Gallery Software Free. Once downloaded, the first thing you have to do is to check if your server does have this Coppermine listed in its selection of installable web applications, or if your server does have a control panel at all, if it doesn’t  then you can install Coppermine with FTP access. If you do not have FTP access on your server, or if you are not sure what to do, contact your administrator and they can set this up for you in not time.

Once installed on you system you will see that this Free Web Picture Gallery Software  does provide powerful features like, different levels of permissions for visitors to post comments. Here you can assign the permission to post comments based on groups membership. By default, coppermine has the groups “administrators”, “registered”, “banned” and “guests”. The guest group applies to visitors of  the gallery who have not logged in.

You can assign the permissions to post comments for particular groups on the group control panel. By default, registered users are allowed to post comments, guests are not allowed to! Though you’re welcome to change this, you should keep in mind that allowing comments for anybody might result in attracting spammers to your page.

If you have disabled anonymous access by setting “Allow unlogged users (guest or anonymous) access” to “no” in Coppermine’s configuration, you don’t have to worry about the guest group at all, since they are not able to access individual pics, they can’t post comments no matter how much they try.

Another great feature of  this Open Source Picture Gallery Software  is its ability to protect your gallery from being flooded with silly spam messages, is enabling comment approval: when enabled, all comments posted will not be visible instantly, but require you (as coppermine admin) to approve them first. As a drawback, this will require additional moderation effort from you.

This Web based Free Picture Gallery Maker also does support various standard and user designed themes and various Free Coppermine Picture Gallery Plugins which helps an user to customise the software and also help save valuable time. The Coppermine themes tend to conform to a very forum (eg. phpBB) style of layout though, unlike that in the other open source software Gallery which provides a more varied layout of the themes and the themes themselves provide a lot of configuration options which opens the field of customisation.

I feel, the theme configuration is very modular for Gallery and allows the user to affect the placement of various “blocks” of interaction around the page. while the themes on this free picture gallery software Coppermine, on the other hand feels very static.

Furthermore, the Open Source Picture Gallery Software uses the Smarty templating engine which makes it a lot easier to tweak the theme as the the layout is essentially HTML based instead of having to hack PHP scripts as one would do with Coppermine.

To conclude, this Free Picture Gallery Making Software is an easily set-up, fast, feature-rich photo gallery script with mySQL database, has excellent user management features, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, e-card feature and a template system for easy customization to match the rest of a site, which can definitely save your business time and give it that efficient edge you have always wanted!

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