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Congratulations, truly pretty software.
But, as always, there isn’t a way (like in Showcase) to create a link for download a big version of a photo.
Sometimes I need to make photo galleries with the download possibility, and for now the only way I have found is to use the carousel action (but require a lot of work), please add this future and I will buy immediately exhibeo.

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Paolo

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On 18 Oct 2012, 5:11 pm, Joe Billings wrote:

Hello FreewayTalkers!

We at Softpress would like to introduce you to our latest product, Exhibeo. Exhibeo is an app for creating state-of-the-art HTML5 slideshows and galleries to use on your websites.

Unlike other gallery and slideshow tools out there, there’s are a bunch of great looking themes to choose from (with more to follow). You can also edit your images in the application and see a live preview of your work as you go.

As a photographer, this is great news. I’d be very happy to be able to move away from JAlbum, which is Java based. Yuk. There is also Juicebox, which is promising, but missing some customisation. However, I’ve only every used FWP for my website (since vs 1.0) so obviously Exhibeo would be my dream choice.

I downloaded the trial and there are a couple of caveats that I notice right away.

1/ No IPTC support? Surely you’re not expecting us to rewrite all metadata for each image every time we produce a gallery? Also … does Exhibeo retain metadata in uploaded images (copyright etc.)? This is extremely important.

2/ The themes are quite limited and further, the problem with themes in general is that anyone using an iFrame, will probably have a clash of styles with their own website design. However, if the themes offer a lot of customisation, then this constraint can be avoided. To wit :

For my main desktop site, I use BananAlbum, which is Flash based. The irony, is that I’ve personally been using a Flash blocker for about the last 5 years. The reason I persevere with BananAlbum is because there is no other gallery software that is so elegantly simple in its UI, whilst offering a vast amount of customisation, which is why it is one of the top downloaded themes on the JAlbum site. For example, auto-hiding thumbs on top/bottom or sides. Positioning of text within the stage etc. Might I suggest that this would be a great theme to emulate, because there is a pent-up demand for those wanting to move away from Flash.

3/ It would also be very useful in the future, to have plugins available for Aperture/iPhoto and Lightroom, so that users would not need to export images, in order to import them into Exhibeo.

Aside from that, I’m seeing some weird behaviour in the trial app., which I’m sure will be fixed very soon, but all in all … great news.

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On 20 Oct 2012, at 12:05, grantsymon wrote:

3/ It would also be very useful in the future, to have plugins available for Aperture/iPhoto and Lightroom, so that users would not need to export images, in order to import them into Exhibeo.

You can actually browse your iPhoto/Aperture library using the OS media browser in the Import dialog. This has been a feature of the OS since at least OS X 10.5 or so.

The problem I found is it slowed Exhibio to a crawl. Exporting as JPEGs and importing them made a vast improvement in speed. I’d much prefer to use the media browser though, as it avoids excess clutter of duplicated images all over the place.

Also, +1 for the EXIF data to be brought along for the ride. It would save days or retyping captions and titles.

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Oh boy, I guess I’ll have to finally update the ol’ OS. Keeping fingers crossed!

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Heather,

the Media Browser only uses the preview that you have chosen to create in either Aperture or iPhoto. Sadly typical of Apple … great idea, half baked implementation. So, if you use it for example in a Pages document and choose an image to use as an A2 poster, but in Aperture’s preferences, you have set it to make medium quality, small sized ‘preview’ images, then this is all that will be available to Pages, which will then do an ugly re-jpegging/upsizing of your measly preview, instead of using what may be a fabulous 150mb tiff original.

Generally, for the web, we want to make jpegs to the ideal size/dimensions so that they are optimally displayed. Exhibeo plugins for Aperture/Lightroom would enable this. Of course … the Media Browser is of no use to Lightroom users anyway.

The speed of using the Media Browser in the Import dialog, is dependant on how large these jpegs are and how many of them there are, plus whether they are available in cache. You may find that a subsequent visit will be much faster.

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On 20 Oct 2012, at 13:20, grantsymon wrote:

You may find that a subsequent visit will be much faster.

Sadly, I don’t see a speed improvement. It seems Exhibio repopulates the image list every time I refresh things.

I think I have my previews set to a reasonably high quality, mainly because I am happy to use them in web layouts directly. I accept what you say about the trade-off about quality, though. For something of a more critical nature, I will export accordingly.

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Hi … just successfully put 8 Bloxx galleries on my site … http://www.howlingbasset.com/wedding-inspiration-and-ideas.html … looks great.

A couple of things though. There seems to be either an image or size limit to the galleries as I couldn’t make one of the galleries until I’d reduced it to 200 images. Was reporting an error in Freeway with anything more.

Also there’s no event handler for using the keyboard arrow keys to move through the gallery.

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Wow very nice - did you just export to Freeway and add with the Action for each gallery - or did you get all of them to point to the same engine?

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Hi … exported to Freeway and added with the action, very easy and simple … which I like.

On 20 Oct 2012, 2:13 pm, Justin Easthall wrote:

Wow very nice - did you just export to Freeway and add with the Action for each gallery - or did you get all of them to point to the same engine?

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Yes great - loaded quick too - it must know its adding the same engine and not adding the code for each over and over which is great

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Very Nice!

On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:06 AM, HowlingBasset email@hidden wrote:

Hi … just successfully put 8 Bloxx galleries on my site … http://www.howlingbasset.com/wedding-inspiration-and-ideas.html … looks great.

A couple of things though. There seems to be either an image or size limit to the galleries as I couldn’t make one of the galleries until I’d reduced it to 200 images. Was reporting an error in Freeway with anything more.

Also there’s no event handler for using the keyboard arrow keys to move through the gallery.

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Very nice. However, I just spent an age creating a new slide show to replace the current in a client’s website. It was at that point I discovered I couldn’t add links… which made it redundant.

Links asap please in Slide?

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Bought it, it works for me. Question, how do you add text to the “Impress” option? Can’t seem to figure out how to do that.
This would help me and satisfy the need to add links.

This is the Slide option:
http://dennisallwardt.com/gallery-acrylics.html

Vicki

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Probably me being dim and not seeing what’s in front of my eyes but I can’t seem to find any fully-featured examples of each of the themes on the Exhibeo website (well, except for the one contained within the iMac).

I’m really grateful to the early adopters who are posting their examples but feel Softpress may be missing a trick by not having lots of them on their own site.

All the best

Gordon
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I’d like to be able to move artist clients away from the Flash gallery I currently use: Slide Show Pro. I see one potential stumbling block, though.

A big draw for these clients is having some basic anti-download protection built into the Flash gallery. Is something similar planned for Exhibeo? Does anyone else think this would be handy?

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On 21 Oct 2012, at 15:36, Bucky Edgett email@hidden wrote:

A big draw for these clients is having some basic anti-download protection built into the Flash gallery. Is something similar planned for Exhibeo? Does anyone else think this would be handy?

Not really. If you can see it in your browser, you’ve already downloaded it. Even with your Flash gallery, all anyone who wants to steal anything needs to do is take a screenshot, and they have your clients picture at the full resolution available on the site. There really is no way to stop theft, except to stop worrying about it…

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On 21 Oct 2012, at 15:36, Bucky Edgett

How about watermarking the photos. There is also a “no cache” action for Freeway Pro.

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On 21 Oct 2012, at 17:12, “Vicki” email@hidden wrote:

How about watermarking the photos.

Ruin my photograph just to satisfy a thief? Not for me. Let 'em steal it, I say, and much good may it do them. The worst they can do, at that tiny resolution, is to put it on their site and claim it as their own. How terrible is that? You know it’s yours, and you can prove it if need be, and show them up for the idiots they are. Even if you don’t, you don’t lose anything.

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You can’t protect copyright anymore, might as well relax and make a selling point out of it. > On 21 Oct 2012, at 17:12, “Vicki”

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Speaking as a photographer that earns his living from copyright, I find it depressing that the general attitude seems to be, that it’s impossible to protect copyright, so just give up and allow free use.

It is not impossible to protect copyright, as is being proven by the film and music industries. Making it hard enough to steal, so that only really deliberate thieves will do so, then actively prosecuting those thieves, will eventually bring into public consciousness the fact that someone actually owns the work they are taking.

Think of being in a sweetie shop (candy store) and the owner isn’t there. Just helping yourself to everything you want is not right and we all know that. Copyrighted work on the internet is no different.

I believe that the answer lies with Apple and Microsoft. It would not be very hard for them to implement, at a low-level in the OS, a system to read metadata from jpeg/png/etc. files and disable screen grab for copyrighted work, perhaps popping up a dialog to display the copyright info. This would stop 99.9% of theft.

As for not being able to do anything with a screen-grab, because it’s too small; A full-screen image on a 2560x1440 is good enough for a half page magazine @ 300dpi. Most 4 colour is printed at 150dpi, so you’d get full-page. Thieves probably aren’t overly concerned about best quality, so would happily go to double-page after interpolation. Then there’s all that packaging work. The endless isles of supermarket shelves. A screen-grab from a 750x750 image would probably be fine for much of that.

That’s just from a screen-grab. Photographers usually want to show their work in the best light and today, that means large images. I have a colleague in the US who found her rather excellent landscape work being sold as posters in Russia. She had to considerably lower the size of the images she was using for her website to prevent it. It would be nice if; 1/ attitudes changed. 2/ content creators (photographers in particular) got a little help from Apple and MS.

Grant

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