The Bottom Line
Whether you want a quick and easy solution or full control over appearance, Gallery Wizard is a great free tool to generate Web photo galleries complete with thumbnails, hyperlinks, and image pages.
Pros
- Freeware - no nags, ads, or baked-in links.
- Optionally generates pages for each image.
- Create custom templates with basic HTML knowledge.
Cons
- Can't add photo captions directly in the program.
- Ugly Windows 95 era interface and dialogs.
- You will need your own server space on the Web.
Description
- Generates thumbnail files and HTML for Web photo gallery pages based on customizable templates.
- Accepts over a dozen different input formats. (No GIF support.)
- Pull images from several folders at once, change the order, save and load file lists.
- Specify any size & quality setting for thumbnails; specify thumbnail filename prefix and/or suffix.
- Copy or resize source images; specify maximum width and height dimensions.
- Apply effects to thumbnails: smooth, sharpen, 3D border, or grayscale.
- Choose from five bundled templates, or create your own if you have basic HTML knowledge.
- Specify gallery page columns/rows, file name, TITLE tag, and baked in "Home" link.
- Optionally generate pages for each image, with full control over the text and code of the page.
- Includes FTP transfer option to upload the entire gallery to a Web server after creation.
Guide Review - Gallery Wizard from The B-Zone (Windows)
I was looking for a program to create Web photo galleries with a flat directory structure (all files in one folder) and Gallery Wizard fit the bill. What's more, it's free and has quite a few customization options. If you just want a quick and simple way to generate your gallery pages, you can go with the default settings and have it done in a matter of minutes. If you want a more custom look, you can get that too with a little basic HTML knowledge. Four thumbnail effects are available--the sharpen option is particularly useful for making those thumbnails looks their best. The generated pages are pure HTML without fancy Javascript special effects. For your basic Web photo album, Gallery Wizard gets the job done nicely.
