TTG Polaroid Gallery
TTG Polaroid Gallery brings Christopher Einarsrud’s Polaroid Gallery to the Lightroom Web module. Polaroid Gallery doesn’t allow for much customization, but it does provide a fun and casual way to present your photo collection.
TTG Polaroid Gallery
TTG Polaroid Gallery is a free download. If you enjoy it, please consider a donation.
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Achtung!!
A few things to be aware of when using Polaroid Gallery:
First, the gallery crop dimensions are set in stone. If you want to control which portions of your photos show up, you should crop them to either a 1:1 aspect ratio (which is not perfect, but probably close enough) or a 464:450 aspect ratio (which ought to be pretty spot-on). If you’re seeing empty space in your polaroids, try increasing the Image Size via the Web module slider.
Second, the polaroid.swf file is a little heavy at 336KB. Probably not the best choice if you’re expecting a lot of visitors on dial-up.
Last, Polaroid Gallery can be used to display photos from your Flickr account. You can’t use the Lightroom Web module to do it, but check out Christopher Einarsrud’s Polaroid Gallery page if you’re interested.
Variations
The zip archive contains two galleries, Type I and Type II.
The Type I gallery uses Christopher Einarsrud’s original code and SWF gallery file. The background image cannot be changed.
The Type II gallery uses modified index.html and SWF files. In this version, users can set their own background color via the Web module Color Palette panel. Users can also use their own background image by naming the image background.jpg and copying it into the folder of the exported gallery.
TTG Polaroid Gallery is based on the public version of Polaroid Gallery 1.01.
Changelog
- v1.2 (2007-07-30)
- The caption bug finally seems to have been squished for good, and the gallery has been tested in both Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom with positive results. Thanks where thanks are due: to Andy Rahn for setting me in the right direction, and to Joe Capra and John Moore for support and testing. Without them, I’d probably still be wracking my brains trying to sort this out.
- For those curious about the version numbering, v1.1 was a bad beta that never went public.
- v1.01 (2007-07-30)
- Found a bug in 1.0 that prevented the gallery from working in Lightroom for Windows. The problem is related to code that fetches photo captions into the gallery; captioning support has therefore been dropped from the release in favor of compatibility. I’ll hopefully be able to return captions to the gallery in a future release.
- Added a Type II gallery that allows for user defined backgrounds. See “Variations” above.
- v1.0 (2007-07-29)
- Initial release; feature complete.
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This is a cool gallery! Can a version 3 be made so that you can swap out the “Polaroid” background with my own like your doing with the background.jpg? I want to make an image gallery for my kids little league team and want to have the page background be a picture of a baseball field but have the images have a baseball card look to them instead of a polaroid look. So the user would provide both the “background.jpg” as well as a “picbackground.jpg”
That would require changes to the Flash source code. As I’m not the developer of the Polaroid gallery, I cannot. All I’ve done is create a Lightroom extension for the gallery.
Hi,
I have been trying to reignite Christopher’s interest in his gallery but to no avail – I have had no response. What I am aiming to do in my version(of his gallery) is change the height of the Flash file itself and then have the photos scale to that new height. But if I change the height in flash the images still scale to some crazy size ?
Any ideas ?
None. I don’t really get Flash at all.
Hi, I’ve used this gallery but there has been some issues for some users…the gallery only shows one blank polaroid =0 Any idea what might be going on?
No idea. I would have to see what it is you are doing.
Doesn’t Work in IE…
I can’t make this gallery work in IE6, 7 or 8 on Win XP or Vista. The same problem goes for the home page of the gallery (http://www.no3dfx.com/polaroid/)
It being Flash, the browser shouldn’t matter. Do you have Flash Player installed? Is it up-to-date?
Hi, great work on the engine. Working great.
Question: what is the reason that the Flickr option is not possible using the web engine templates?
Just curious. Obviously I’m one of those people that want to have it all..
I just didn’t think about it at the time. Might be something I can work into an update …
Hello,
When I open the HTML page in dream weaver everything looks great but as soon as I upload to my server all my pics are grayed out. The words are still showing up though. . . any suggestions?
Thanks!
Cass
Don’t open it in Dreamweaver … ? Without seeing the gallery on the server, I can’t even begin to diagnose the problem.
Great to turn this into a Gallary. Is there a parameter to specify the location of the XML file? If I could get this it would work great in my Joomla setup.
Thanks,
Steve
You’ll need to edit the exported HTML:
<script language=”JavaScript”>
var flashvars = {
xmlURL: “photos.xml”
}
var params = {
bgcolor: “<%= model.nonCSS.stageBGC %>”,
base: “polaroid/”
}
var attributes = {
}
swfobject.embedSWF(“polaroid/polaroid.swf”, “flashcontent”, “100%”, “100%”, “8″, false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
Hello, really love the idea of the gallery.. but after many attempts to load these two polaroid galleries into my Lightroom 2.6 64bit web galleries folder… however, I keep getting the same message regarding a problem preventing the folder from being encrypted. Can you help me out with this?
Are you following the Installation Instructions?