Web Photo Gallery Creation and Automation Tools

Gather up your pictures and post them on the Web... automated features of software make it easy! Here's a roundup of free and readily available software programs for automatically generating Web photo galleries complete with thumbnail images and hyperlinks.

Post your pictures on the Web using the Web Photo Gallery command in Photoshop 5.5 and up. This command generates an index page of thumbnail images with hyperlinks to all your pictures. Here's step-by-step instructions for using it.

IrfanView is a free image viewer that makes it easy to post your pictures on the Web using the export thumbnails command. Here's step-by-step instructions for using this feature in IrfanView.

ACDSee is an extremely popular image viewer that makes it easy to post your pictures on the Web with the HTML Album Generator feature. Here's step-by-step instructions for the HTML Album Generator in ACDSee version 3.1 or higher.

PhotoImpact Album is the image cataloging utility included with Ulead PhotoImpact. Here's step-by-step instructions for generating a photo gallery for the Web using the thumbnail export command.

Ulead Photo Explorer is a free image viewer and browser with limited photo editing and photo sharing features. Here's step-by-step instructions for generating customized Web pages of your photo collections with Photo Explorer 6.

Media Center Plus 3 is a multimedia management and cataloging program. Here's step-by-step instructions for using the HTML Export command to automatically generate HTML pages to display your photo collections on the Web.

From Personal Web Pages Guide Linda Roeder: "In the past few years a new type of service has popped up. They are photo hosting services and they're free. You upload your photos into photo albums and there they stay."

Sites where you can store photos and files online. From Personal Web Pages Guide Linda Roeder.