Create an image gallery with ease

Art Flash Gallery is a tool to beautifully present your pictures on website. Basic knowledge about websites development and maintenance is required.

Internet is becoming the best place for everyone to present information to the world. A picture is worth thousand words. This tool will help you to publish your pictures on website in a beautiful way [Fig 1].

To use this tool you should have knowledge about how to upload files to your site. There is a swf (Flash, main file) and few other files included. This utility comes with a manual which guide you step-by-step how to publish the files. One the tool is setup then all you need to do is upload your pictures and make small change to an xml configuration file, which Art Flash Gallery uses to read the photos [Fig 2].

The image gallery has many features. It shows images as thumbnails in a auto scrolling bar at the bottom. Placing mouse over the thumbnail shows a small preview picture. You can run the slideshow. The gallery can also be maximized for full screen view. You can also add description for each photo which will be displayed when you put mouse over the picture.

There are many parameters you can customize like gallery size, background image or color, slideshow, buttons, sound etc.

You can also fetch pictures from your flickr or picasa account to show in this gallery.

Pros:

1. Easy to use and manage
2. Nice presentation of pictures

Cons:

1. Requires basic knowledge about website
2. Price a little higher

Conclusion: If you own a website and have knowledge about its working then this you can use this tool. This is a simple and easy utility to present your photos to the world.