Top Features (Complete feature list)

• Share any file on your web site: photos, video, audio, documents, anything!
• Automatic thumbnail and compressed image creation when you add your original hi-res photos. No need to reduce or compress your photos first!
• Full-featured album and media management. Add, edit, delete, copy and move albums. Add captions; move, copy, rearrange, and rotate your photos and other objects.
• Powerful user security with flexible, per-album granularity.
• Easily add all your photos using one-click synchronize and ZIP file upload functions.
• Scalable to hundreds of thousands of objects. Limited only by hard drive space.
• Image metadata extraction. Supports these formats: EXIF, XMP, tEXt, IFD,  and IPTC.
• Search function queries title, caption, filename, and image metadata
• Image watermarking with your own text and/or image
• AJAX-enabled for more responsive UI.
• Web-based installer makes installation a snap! Automatically detects and upgrades previous versions of Gallery Server Pro.
• SQL Server database engine provides robust and ultra fast performance. Compatible with all recent versions of SQL Server: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server 2000, and MSDE 2000.
• Integrates with DotNetNuke and other frameworks to provide a superior media gallery.
• 100% managed code written in C# and ASP.NET 2.0. Source code is freely available.
• Free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License

System Requirements

The web application requires:

• Windows 2000 or higher.
• Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 or higher.
• Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or higher, or UltiDev Cassini Web Server
• SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000. It does not have to be installed on your server, but it must be available on the network.
• Optional: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5. If present, Gallery Server Pro extracts additional image metadata not accessible to version 2.0 (primarily titles and keywords).
• The email functionality requires access to an SMTP server.

Users of the web application require:

• Any modern web browser (IE 5+, Netscape 6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari)

How Gallery Server Pro works

• Gallery Server Pro is a web application you install on your web server or your web hosting company's server.
• Add your media library by synchronizing your directory containing photos, videos and other media objects with the Gallery Server Pro database. You can also ZIP up all your files and upload them.
• Gallery Server Pro automatically creates a thumbnail image to represent each media object. If you upload a high resolution image, a bandwidth-friendly, compressed version is created. EXIF, IPTC and other types of metadata are extracted and stored in the database.
• Media object files are stored on the hard drive. Metadata about these files, such as width, height, caption, etc. are stored in the database.
• When web users browse your albums and media objects, Gallery Server Pro queries the database for the necessary information, and dynamically renders a custom web page. If watermarking is enabled, the watermark is applied to the image before it is sent.