X3Photo Gallery Forums

mjau-mjau wrote:

illunis wrote:What i would like to see is a demo gallery with pictures inside to get a feel of how they look like and play around with different styles.

Did you not check out all the gallery page examples in the concepts section? All the pages here are basically folders with images uploaded. Perhaps I should have called this section "gallery" to be more clear? As you can see, there are tons of variations for a gallery layouts, including slideshows, vertical layouts and grids.

For your convenience, I created 2 more examples, just to emphasize the gallery content:
http://mjau-mjau.com/concepts/more/clean-grid/ (remove header and footer)
http://mjau-mjau.com/concepts/more/just-images/ (remove header, footer and context)

Actually, they look quite nice without the menu. Galleries could be available like this, although it would require a side menu to be available touch/mouse-hover, or at least some way to navigate "back".

mjau-mjau wrote:

illunis wrote:Yes i checked but didnt get the idea....now with the two additional galleries i can start getting a better view. I guess X3 will have the ability to create sub-menus as well like in X2.

Do you not see the main menu with submenus? This basically works the same as with X2, except the menu is horizontal here by default:


For smaller devices, the side-menu comes into action. This menu will optionally also be available to use on large screens:


I guess what you are referring to are the gallery links directly in the main content area? That is a new (incomplete) feature of Imagevue X3, but it does not mean that you can't also display all folders as sub-menus in the main menu (just like X2). Get it?

I can understand that it can be difficult to grasp some concepts of X3 at this point, since the design is so different from X2.

mjau-mjau wrote:

drzylvon wrote:-For password protection, it's indeed a big requirement for me and I'm using it already in X2. But may I kindly request a slightly more developped model with perhaps user management (identified people : Mary, Roger, John + "anonymous passwords" like in X2)
I'd like to be able to say "this gallery is visible to Mary & Roger", "this one is visible to John", "this gallery is visible to anybody using the password".

We will definitely be adding password-protection, although we will need to consider how feasible it is to include an advanced user-groups password system. Will definitely consider it!

Great

drzylvon wrote:-For navigation, we currently click on those left & right arrow icons, will we be able to set the clicking area to the full halves of the images? Some competing galleries I've used before had this and I liked it much, you don't need to move your mouse too accurately to navigate quickly, if you don't want to use the keys.

Are you referring to the slideshow- and/or popup module as below? (minimized screenshot)

By default, simply clicking anywhere on the image will go to next image, as that is normally the direction people will be navigating. Being able to click full halves of the image to choose direction is not a bad concept either, but I am not convinced it is a better solution. Keep in mind we have users on touch devices also ...

Hmm I'm used to the "click" forward of X2 but I've missed that "halves" clicking quite a few times. But I see your point about touch devices, there isn't any "mouse over" visual feedback indeed.

drzylvon wrote:-I like GRIDS a lot but I think the justified view of flickr is a little cleaner. In Flickr, height is fixed and they fit pictures through adjust width.

Are you referring to layouts like this https://d.pr/i/liXp? This is already scheduled for integration, and you will see examples shortly. We aim to offer any modern layout variations into Imagevue. The "grid" variations you are currently seeing in the examples, are basically "masonry" style layouts, perhaps best exemplified here: http://chromeography.com/. Both variations have a few benefits vs advantages.

Yes, I was referring to that

drzylvon wrote:Also, could we set as a parameter the size of the separator and it's color ? Currently Grid Cubes Big has white borders, GRID 5 Big has none. So the user could set this ?

I tried to add some variations to the galleries, just to emphasize that you can apply various visual features across any gallery. Yes, the "gutter width" can be applied on a per-gallery basis. Color? There is currently no colors for the grid separator, and it simply shows the page background color between the element. You can easily apply colored frames around images though, as is emphasized in this example.

Yes, with background, no need for color, didn't think of it.

drzylvon wrote:I'm looking forward to trying it out, do you have the faintest time frame for beta stage?

A good question. I may need another week just to figure out a vague timeline for this. Will let you know!

Thanks for feedback!

mjau-mjau wrote:

fsfs wrote:1. Will there be a feature added like "proofer" section for clients to view their photosession, and comment etc?

Do you have any examples of this? Would it be anything else than a hidden and/or passworded gallery folder, with a comments section?

Yea correctly...

fsfs wrote:2. A album viewer - is this possible? Spread sheets like a real album?

Certainly, this will be a main feature of new X3. There is already some functionality ready, but currently it only displays a generic image instead of a preview-image from the album. This example is basically an 'album viewer', or what I would like to call a 'folders' module. If you can imagine the images being populated with preview-images from the albums, and then there will be several layout variations also.