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TTG LR Pages released
TTG LR Pages
Adobe Lightroom has made web photo galleries easy. Gallery indices have brought disparate galleries together into navigable collections. But still, something has been missing.
While Lightroom has allowed users to disseminate their photography to the web, web photo galleries do not a website make. TTG LR Pages generates what the standard templates do not — not galleries, but pages — finally allowing Lightroom users to generate complete websites from within the Lightroom Web module.
Features
TTG LR Pages generates two pages, intended for use as a splash, or Home, page and an About page. Each page allows for one image, and up to five headings and paragraphs; the template allows for up to five menu items, plus a contact link and linkable ID plate. Four layouts are available, and each of the two pages’ layouts can be chosen independent of the other.
w/ MonoSlideshow
Optionally, the image on the splash page can be replaced with a slideshow, as on the demo page. This requires TTG MonoSlideshow Gallery and a purchased copy of MonoSlideshow ($19.95, www.monoslideshow.com).
w/ Other TTG Templates
TTG LR Pages is designed to work aesthetically with other TTG templates, such as TTG XML Auto Index, TTG Shadowbox Gallery, and other TTG galleries. Used in conjunction with other TTG templates, TTG LR Pages can be used to generate a complete and cohesive web-based photo portfolio/website.
Cheers,
Matt / theturninggate
TTG Shadowbox Gallery 2.52 released
TTG Shadowbox Gallery 2.52 is unleashed! This is a small, but significant update. After getting some helpful help on the Shadowbox support forums, I’ve corrected the Javascript implementation so that Shadowbox loads first, thumbnails second. This resolves the issue where images would load into a new page if the user clicked a thumbnail before the page completed loading. Now, even if a thumbnail is clicked before the page loads fully, the shadowbox will be launched.
TTG Panic Gallery released
TTG Panic Gallery is a new HTML gallery template for the Adobe Lightroom Web module, featuring a slick slide-scrolling effect.
The gallery loads thumbnails and large images together into a single page, and is meant for small presentations, but can handle more as you like. The gallery supports TTG XML Auto Index and PicLens, and the thumbnails can be positioned above or below the viewport.
Cheers,
Matt / theturninggate
TTG Slimbox Gallery 2.51 released
TTG Slimbox Gallery has been updated to version 2.51 with the following improvements:
- Brings TTG Slimbox Gallery to feature parity with TTG Shadowbox Gallery 2.51, with improvements in the following areas:
- A menu! Five customizable menu items + slideshow + contact.
- Improved support for Piclens, and now supports PicLens Lite. Support for custom logo and MP3 audio using PicLens Lite; logo and audio support will be supported in a future version of the PicLens client.
- Slimbox: dropped themes, added controls for colors, loading and close images, borders; additional changes.
- Reorganized Web module controls and panels; lots of additions and relocations for ease of use.
- A major overhaul of code, in places both HTML and Lua. Cleaner, leaner, better!
- Added option to remove live_update.js from exported galleries, reducing overall page load by 16KB.
- Width of Collection Description now adjustable.
- If unused, Collection Description, Annotations and Ratings code can now be removed from gallery to reduce overall gallery size.
- Additional changes.
TTG Shadowbox Gallery has also been updated to version 2.51.
Cheers,
Matthew / theturninggate
TTG Shadowbox Gallery 2.47 released
At long last, TTG Shadowbox Gallery 2.47 is unleashed! Likely, I’ve been looking forward to this release more than anyone else. This is a major update, and includes the following additions and changes, and then some.
- A menu! Five customizable menu items + slideshow + contact.
- Improved support for Piclens, and now supports PicLens Lite. Support for custom logo and MP3 audio using PicLens Lite; logo and audio support will be supported in a future version of the PicLens client.
- Shadowbox: dropped themes, added controls for colors and borders; additional changes.
- Reorganized Web module controls and panels; lots of additions and relocations for ease of use.
- A major overhaul of code, in places both HTML and Lua. Cleaner, leaner, better!
- Bug fixes (and hopefully no new bugs introduced).
I’ve put a lot of work into this update, have maybe even gone a little nuts under the hood. I think this version is a much, much better product than the last one as a result. However, due to the extent of the changes, there may be newly introduced bugs. I hope this isn’t the case, but I’m sure you’ll all let me know if anything rears its ugly head.
That said, I hope you like it. Here’s a sample gallery. Give it a good work-out, and be sure to play the gallery in slideshow mode to check out the new PicLens features.
Cheers,
Matt
TTG Gallery Updates
TTG Client Response Gallery has been updated to version 1.1, incorporating a number of user requests. Client response elements, including selection boxes, image download links, comments fields and client ratings can now be enabled/disabled individually, allowing for full feature customization of the gallery. The maximum size for downloadable, large images has also been increased to 15,000 pixels. Finally, the gallery is now supported by TTG XML Auto Index.
TTG Selection Gallery, TTG HTML Gallery, TTG Slimbox Gallery have all been updated. The galleries now feature standards-compliant, vertically centered thumbnails - without the use of tables! The galleries have also been updated to work with TTG XML Auto Index.
TTG Shadowbox Gallery is currently at version 2.46. The gallery has been updated to use Shadowbox 1.0, a number of features have been added for Shadowbox appearance and behavior customization, and thumbnails have been vertically centered without the use of tables. I’ve also included several selectable themes and loading images for the Shadowbox, and an option for onImage Navigation.
Finally, TTG XML Auto Index has been updated to version 1.03. Album listing order is now reversible by switching a boolean value on line 15 of the index.php file. Some error suppression has also been included to compensate for unusual PHP settings observed by some users receiving errors.
To update an existing installation, users need only replace their index.php file with the updated version in the new package.
Full details, downloads and sample galleries are available from each gallery’s page, linked above.
Cheers,
Matthew / theturninggate
The Turning Gate celebrates Lightroom’s first birthday with new galleries
Lightroom 1.0 was released on February 19, 2007, making it one year old today. Marking the occasion of Lightroom’s first birthday, The Turning Gate is proud to present the release of two new Web module templates, TTG Shadowbox Gallery and TTG XML Auto Index.
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TTG XML Auto Index makes keeping an album index, or table of contents, of web photo galleries easier than ever. Set it up once; the rest gets done automatically. Add galleries any time, simply by uploading a supported web gallery to the auto index directory on your web server.
TTG Shadowbox Gallery features the latest and greatest in lightbox-style media presentations, Michael J. I. Jackson’s incredible and incredibly flexible Shadowbox, and includes all of the features you’ve come to expect from TTG galleries. It’s also the first gallery to support the new TTG XML Auto Index out-of-the-box.
For full details, sample galleries and downloads, click the links above.
TTG XML Album Index has also been updated to version 1.02, with improved support for IE6.
Cheers to all, and a very happy birthday to Lightroom!
Matt / theturninggate
TTG XML Album Index 1.0 released
TTG XML Album Index is a new album indexing template for the Lightroom Web module, and replaces the newly discontinued TTG Gallery Index.
Through a combination of PHP and XML, the album index is easier than ever to update with new web galleries. It’s no longer necessary to regenerate and re-upload the entire index for every update, as was the case with TTG Gallery Index. TTG XML Album Index gathers album information from a simple XML file. To add a gallery to your index, you need only provide a thumbnail image and four pieces of information — thumbnail path, gallery path, gallery title and description — to the XML file.
TTG XML Album Index is written in Lua. It requires Lightroom 1.3 or higher, and a web server running PHP. Updates require an FTP client and a text-editor. Coding experience is not necessary.
TTG XML Album Index outputs valid XHTML and CSS.
Known Issues: Not all Web module options live update correctly in Lightroom/Mac. I’m not sure why this is, but everything should work when you force a page reload. The easiest way to force reload is to adjust the thumbnail dimensions or quality.
Please read the documentation on the download page for full usage instructions (please let me know if the directions are unclear in any way). Of note, be sure to delete the index.html file from your exported album index. It’s only used to preview the page in LR; on the web server, the index will run from the index.php file.
Download TTG XML Album Index 1.0.
Cheers,
Matt / theturninggate
TTG HTML and Slimbox Galleries released with PicLens support
TTG HTML Gallery 1.2 and TTG Slimbox Gallery 2.3 add support for PicLens.
From PicLens.com: “PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be the same again.”
PicLens is a browser extension for Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer that provides a slick and immersive 3D image viewing experience.
Visitors with the PicLens extension installed in their browser will be able to activate the feature in the same way as on sites like Flickr or Facebook, or they may choose not to use the feature, and simply browse the gallery in the usual fashion. Visitors without the PicLens extension can use the gallery normally.
Download TTG HTML Gallery 1.2.
Download TTG Slimbox Gallery 2.3.
Install the PicLens browser-extension.
Cheers,
theturninggate
TTG Client Response Gallery 1.0 released
TTG Client Response Gallery is the selection gallery steroids, and strives to ease the back-and-forth between photographers and clients.
The gallery employs FormToEmail.com’s FormToEmail PHP script to collect data from clients, including image selections, image ratings, individual image comments and more. The gallery employs Slimbox to allow large-size image previews without disrupting form input, and also allows clients to download a copy of each image to their own machine.
For a full list of features and to download, visit the TTG Client Response Gallery page.
Also, I’m looking for feedback on how to better shape this gallery into the tool it’s meant to be. Please feel free to deposit your two-cents into the gallery’s threat at LightroomForums.net.
Cheers,
theturninggate