Ulead Photo Explorer is a free image viewer and browser with limited photo editing and photo sharing features. The Output HTML Thumbnails command offers several options for generating customized index pages for your photo collections.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 15 minutes
Here's How:
- Prepare your photos for the Web by rotating, cropping, resizing, and color correcting, if necessary. Refer to the related information in the links below for tips on prepping your pictures.
- Place the photos you want to include in the gallery in a folder on your hard drive.
- Choose an empty folder or create a new one to use as a destination folder for the files created by the Photo Gallery command.
- Open Ulead Photo Explorer. In the left side folder panel, navigate to the folder containing the photos you want to include in the photo gallery.
- From the File menu, choose Output HTML thumbnails.
- In the general section of the Page tab, type a title that will appear in the the title bar of the Web browser when the page is viewed.
- If desired, type text for a heading and footer to appear on the page above and below the thumbnails. Optionally, choose a background color and/or image.
- Check the horizontal lines box if you want a line between the header and footer text and the thumbnails.
- In the output folder section, choose custom, then select the browse [...] button to select the folder you created in step 3. Also check the copy source files check box.
- In the Thumbnail tab, choose the layout and size for the thumbnails.
- In the image section, check Indexed if you want the thumbnails to be numbered. The frame width indicated a border that appears around each thumbnail. Make sure hyperlink to source file is checked.
- In the File section, check the box to generate the thumbnail. For format, choose "auto" unless you have a preference.
- In the description tab, you can choose to include additional image information for each thumbnail. Click the help button for a thorough description of these options.
- The advanced tab includes even more options for customizing the HTML pages. You can experiment with these options anytime. Use the help button for a thorough description of these options.
- When you're happy with your settings, click the OK button and Photo Explorer will generate the necessary files.
Tips:
- Photo Explorer creates HTML pages, thumbnail images, and copies the original full-size files to the same folder as long as you used the settings specified above.
- You can upload the entire destination folder to your Web sever as-is, or open the html pages in a Web page editor to change their appearance.
- Photo Explorer creates links directly to the full-size images. When you click an image in the thumbnail page, the full-size image will open in the same browser window.
- Your thumbnail pages can consist of selected images instead of an entire folder. Before choosing the Output command, hold the Ctrl key down and click on each of the images you want to include.
- Try the slide show or screen saver features of Photo Explorer for even more fun ways to share your pictures.
