Adobe Lightroom has a nice web gallery option for posting to online photo sites. You can edit your photos in a really great adobe application and just upload (by Ftp) to straight to your site. In the updated version of Lightroom 1.3, they have included some neat Flash-based templates, namely: Airtight Auto Viewer, Airtight Postcard Viewer, and Airtight Simple Viewer along with Lightroom Flash Gallery.

Airtight Auto Viewer presents the photos like an old 35mm film roll where each picture is side by side. You have to scroll laterally to view each. You can view them as a slideshow. After a while however, the slideshow dazzles the eye with the lateral sliding.

Airtight Postcard Viewer presents the thumbnails on one page and when you click the large image zooms towards you. It is very similar to Pic Lens. The problem I find with this is that the large images are almost always leaning to one side. It would be perfect for someone wanting to showcase some family photos.

Airtight Simple Viewer shows the thumbnails on the left and the large picture on the right. Clicking on the thumbnail will simply bring up the respective large image on the right. No slideshow included.

Lightroom Flash Gallery presents thumbnails as a vertical scrollbar on the left and clicking on them brings up the large image on the right. You may view a slideshow with or without the thumbnails showing.

In addition, Lightroom still carries several html web gallery templates.

Lightroom Web Gallery is perfect for persons who just want to put up a site with no hassle and who don’t want additional work after spending their precious time editing the images. The only thing you will have to know is how to upload your gallery using the included Ftp option (server name, username, password, etc.). However, there are a couple of things missing that would make it more acceptable to demanding users.

1. There is no option for comments.
2. No RSS feed option
3. No option for plugins or add-ons.

If these options aren’t important and you already have Lightroom as your photo editing software, then this is for you. If not, try one of the many open source photo blog/gallery software.

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