Questions before purchasing

sbhasker · 2013-07-08 09:56:42

I'm considering purchasing the TTG tools for web publishing for Lightroom, but I have a few questions. I've spent a couple hours looking at the forum and some of the documentation and sample galleries, but still not sure if I can fairly easily do what I want with TTG.

I've used Lightroom lightly since Lightroom 1.0. I've always wanted to do a web site/galleries of my photos. I know a bit of php programming.

I want a website with multiple albums and categories.

I want to be able to toggle of and off camera exif data for images.

When viewing individual images in an album I want see the thumbnails for the rest of the images in the album and be able click on them to select that image, not just a next and previous button/image. I don't care if the thumbnails run horizontally or vertically.

My specific question(s) are can I easily display (toggle) exif data for images and can I do thumbnail filmstrip/grid/carousel/whatever for album navigation?

If I can do those things fairly easily, could you give me pointers as to where I should look in the documentation to see how to do it, what files need to be altered, websites examples, that sort of thing. There is a substantial learning curve here I think :-)

Thanks so much for your time!

rod barbee · 2013-07-08 10:01:36

My specific question(s) are can I easily display (toggle) exif data for images and can I do thumbnail filmstrip/grid/carousel/whatever for album navigation?

You can display pretty much any metadata you choose, including your exif data. You can't turn it on and off on an image by image basis. All will have it displayed, or none.

CE3 gallery displays a thumbnail grid from which your viewer can choose images. You can also have the images launched into a slideshow automatically if you choose.

Gallery documentation: http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … e3_gallery

be sure to post back with some specific questions if you have any

Matthew · 2013-07-08 12:14:45

I don't actually think the learning curve is very hard. There's one tutorial you should read as a new user that will walk you through all of the necessary concepts. The problem with reading through the forum is that the forum largely exists to help users who have problems, or who are attempting to make personalized customizations outside of the supported feature set.

There are lots of users that we literally never hear from, because they use the plugins and setup their site without any problems, without delving into external customizations, so never need to ask questions here.

So the forum tends to be a little lopsided.

The plugins are extremely flexible, provides many options and features, and for most users that is enough. Some people like to extend things further, and we offer an extensibility framework for those users. But they are the exception, rather than the rule. You can pretty easily setup an attractive, functional website with zero coding necessary.

That one recommended tutorial is here:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … publishing

Here is an example gallery:
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/galleries … slideshow/

The titles under the thumbnails are pulled from IPTC data; you have two rows to work with here and may output any metadata (IPTC or EXIF). Looking at the large images, you can also see two additional metadata slots, one above the image (the heading) and one below (the caption).

And the large view thumbnails are disabled in this demonstration, but there is an option to display a horizontal row of thumbnails at the bottom of the screen while viewing large images.

sbhasker · 2013-07-09 03:37:35

Thank you so much for your quick informative responsea Rod & Matthew. Very much appreciated! Will purchase today and start working with TTG.

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