SimpleViewer - Automatic Desktop Instructions
These instructions show you how to create a SimpleViewer gallery by using desktop software. This is probably the easiest way to create a SimpleViewer gallery. Once you have created your gallery you can upload it to your web server.
These are the desktop programs that will automatically generate SimpleViewer galleries:
- PhotoShop
- Picasa (Windows)
- Porta (Windows)
- iPhoto (Macintosh)
- RapidWeaver (Macintosh)
- Aperture (Macintosh)
- SimpleViewerExport (Linux)
- Adobe Lightroom (Windows and Macintosh)
Picasa
Picasa is Google's free image editing and organising software. It's a great program, and can also be used to generate SimpleViewer galleries in seconds. To create a SimpleViewer gallery using Picasa, follow these steps:
1. Install Picasa
If you don't already have it, download and install Picasa by clicking the button below.
2. Install SimpleViewer Picasa Template
Download the SimpleViewer Picasa Template here. (NOTE: this is a different file than the regular SimpleViewer download). Unzip the folder to your Picasa web templates folder (usually C:\Program Files\Picasa2\web\templates). Restart Picasa.
3. Create SimpleViewer gallery
Open Picasa. Select the images you want to make a gallery from, and click Folder -> Export as HTML Page... Select your image size and gallery title. In the Select a Web Page Template page, select SimpleViewer. Click Finish. The gallery will be generated and displayed in a new browser window. Captions added in Picasa will show as captions in SimpleViewer.
4. Edit gallery options (Optional)
Once you have created your SimpleViewer gallery, you can tweak some of the gallery options by editing the generated gallery.xml file in any text editor (e.g. NotePad, TextEdit ). Here is a list of the XML gallery options with their descriptions. Note you should set the 'maxImageWidth' and 'maxImageHeight' to match the dimensions of your largest image.
5. Set your gallery background color (Optional)
To set the background color, edit index.html. Enter the hex color value as the last parameter in the SWFObject code line:
var fo = new SWFObject("viewer.swf", "viewer",
"100%", "100%", "7", "#ff00ff");
6. Upload gallery to your web-server
Use the FTP program of your choice to upload the generated folder to your web-server.
Porta
Porta is a free, easy to use, and lightweight program to generate web galleries from your images. Porta will generate a SimpleViewer gallery in seconds. Download and install Porta from here.
iPhoto
Flash Album Exporter is a free plug-in for iPhoto that allows you to export to SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer.
RapidWeaver
Imacomino has developed a free SimpleViewer plugin for RapidWeaver (macintosh only). Download it here.
Aperture
Flash Album Exporter is a free plug-in for Aperture that allows you to export to SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer.
SimpleViewerExport
SimpleViewerExport is a kipi-plugin to export image albums to SimpleViewer. It can be used from any application which uses kipi-plugins. Installation and usage instructions are here. (Note: SimpleViewerExport currently supports SimpleViewer v1.7)
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom v1.3 can export to SimpleViewer v1.8. Check the Lightroom documentation or here for details. There is also a free SimpleViewer Lightroom Template that exports to SimpleViewer v1.8.5.
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