Menalto Gallery for an artist's portfolio?

mlommel

Joined: 2009-03-17
Posts: 2

Posted: Tue, 2009-03-31 02:58

Greetings,

Hope some experienced Gallery developers here can give me some feedback; I'm helping an artist to setup an invite-only portfolio online. She's seeking these 4 essential features:

1. The portfolio is only open to dealers she invites and provides a username and password for. The gallery is not open to the public. Each dealer should have their own login info. (They won't be creating their own albums or doing any uploading; the site is acting as a portfolio.)

2. The dealers can easily search for photos based on keywords, titles.

3. The dealers can choose to download a given image at different sizes.

4. There would be one album of her video work so the gallery needs to be able to stream video. (I'm using Dreamhost which provides a quicktime server, so, thinking the video would be hosted there; she does not want to use YouTube, etc.)

So, can Gallery do these things? I've installed Gallery on a testing domain and have played around with it but couldn't really determine if or how I could accomplish the above. If not Gallery, any other suggestions?

Looking forward to learning from you...

-- Michael

mridgwel

Joined: 2007-01-27
Posts: 215

Posted: Tue, 2009-03-31 18:33

Simple answer is yes it can. As an example, I have a section on my site that is for registered users only and the users (or in my case groups) are explicitly granted whatever rights I've chosen e.g. whether they can view resizes, etc.

Searching\keywords work with the security so if you search for something you can't see then it doesn't appear. Log in with appropriate permissions and repeat the search it will appear.

Video can be achieved, but its not something I've used in my gallery - although I have seen them used successfully in other galleries.

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Mark

mlommel

Joined: 2009-03-17
Posts: 2

Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 03:06

Mark, thanks. Sounds like in the direction of what I need to setup. Hope you don't mind if I ask a couple follow up questions:

1. What plugins are you using to achieve your setup?
2. Simple question I guess, but how do you set up multiple size downloads? I haven't found it yet playing around with a testing installation of Gallery. I guess one way is to have albums setup with different sizes, but is there an automated sizing option?
3. Can the whole gallery be private or just sections of the gallery? Is there someway to modify the frontpage to just display login and a logo for instance?
4. Where are users granted rights; could not find the place to admin that. Or is that part of a plugin.

alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4338

Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 07:11

Create multiple resizes for photos (or albums) under edit photo/album -> album/photo tab, Resized Images

Use the downloadlink module to offer direct downloads of the different sizes (set permissions appropriately)

Set the permissions for albums/items under edit photo/album -> Edit Permissions menu item

make the whole Gallery private by withdrawing all permissions from the anonymous user

alternatively set individual per-album passwords (rather than username/password combinations for individual users) with the Password Protected Albums module

In general, time spent experimenting and playing with your Gallery installations prior to "going live" will repay you multiple times over.

mlommel Joined: 2009-03-17 Posts: 2	Posted: Tue, 2009-03-31 02:58
	Greetings, Hope some experienced Gallery developers here can give me some feedback; I'm helping an artist to setup an invite-only portfolio online. She's seeking these 4 essential features: 1. The portfolio is only open to dealers she invites and provides a username and password for. The gallery is not open to the public. Each dealer should have their own login info. (They won't be creating their own albums or doing any uploading; the site is acting as a portfolio.) 2. The dealers can easily search for photos based on keywords, titles. 3. The dealers can choose to download a given image at different sizes. 4. There would be one album of her video work so the gallery needs to be able to stream video. (I'm using Dreamhost which provides a quicktime server, so, thinking the video would be hosted there; she does not want to use YouTube, etc.) So, can Gallery do these things? I've installed Gallery on a testing domain and have played around with it but couldn't really determine if or how I could accomplish the above. If not Gallery, any other suggestions? Looking forward to learning from you... -- Michael
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mridgwel Joined: 2007-01-27 Posts: 215	Posted: Tue, 2009-03-31 18:33
	Simple answer is yes it can. As an example, I have a section on my site that is for registered users only and the users (or in my case groups) are explicitly granted whatever rights I've chosen e.g. whether they can view resizes, etc. Searching\keywords work with the security so if you search for something you can't see then it doesn't appear. Log in with appropriate permissions and repeat the search it will appear. Video can be achieved, but its not something I've used in my gallery - although I have seen them used successfully in other galleries. _________ Mark

mlommel Joined: 2009-03-17 Posts: 2	Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 03:06
	Mark, thanks. Sounds like in the direction of what I need to setup. Hope you don't mind if I ask a couple follow up questions: 1. What plugins are you using to achieve your setup? 2. Simple question I guess, but how do you set up multiple size downloads? I haven't found it yet playing around with a testing installation of Gallery. I guess one way is to have albums setup with different sizes, but is there an automated sizing option? 3. Can the whole gallery be private or just sections of the gallery? Is there someway to modify the frontpage to just display login and a logo for instance? 4. Where are users granted rights; could not find the place to admin that. Or is that part of a plugin.

alecmyers Joined: 2006-08-01 Posts: 4338	Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 07:11
	Create multiple resizes for photos (or albums) under edit photo/album -> album/photo tab, Resized Images Use the downloadlink module to offer direct downloads of the different sizes (set permissions appropriately) Set the permissions for albums/items under edit photo/album -> Edit Permissions menu item make the whole Gallery private by withdrawing all permissions from the anonymous user alternatively set individual per-album passwords (rather than username/password combinations for individual users) with the Password Protected Albums module In general, time spent experimenting and playing with your Gallery installations prior to "going live" will repay you multiple times over.

Menalto Gallery for an artist's portfolio?

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