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Picture Gallery in Freeway
Can someone tell me how to set up a picture gallery in Freeway? Please don’t assume that I know anything about how to navigate Freeway. Plain english would be appreciated.
Just received this in the Softpress email newsletter. I used the same technique described below for my 13 year old son’s photography portfolio lucaventer.com/
Freeway Tricks - Embedding a photo gallery from Aperture or iPhoto into a Freeway page Are you an Aperture or iPhoto user? Do you want to embed rich media galleries into your Freeway page? If so, the secret is iFrames.
iFrames are a standard web convention which allow you to embed a webpage into another page. Read more about them at wikipedia. They’re fairly easy to set up and there’s a Freeway Action to make it even easier. Get the Action here. www.softpress.com/kb/article.php?id=196
Next, make and post your slideshow. From Aperture or iPhoto, create an album of images you’d like to use or select one you already have. There’s no limit to the number of images you can use, so have at it! Using the free Flash Album Exporter flashalbumexporter.home.comcast.net, export your album to a folder. Next, simply upload this to your web server using an FTP client (we love Transmit, but anything will work here). Be sure to make a note of the URL for the gallery you’ve just created (for example - mywebserver.com/gallery/).
Back in Freeway, choose a blank area in your page for the gallery. Choose Insert>Action Item>iFrame. Make the box as big as you like, then select the Action Inspector from the Window menu. Enter the URL for your gallery, customize the display settings, and publish your site. That’s it!
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HI, there is also my Gallery action which also accesses iPhoto if you want.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. I should have mentioned that my photo gallery is in Photoshop (File>Automate>Photo Gallery). I don’t have Aperture and I don’t use iPhoto. My gallery has several hundred pics in it. Is there a way in which Freeway can talk to Photoshop?? Grasping at straws here! Looking forward in anticipation……
On 27 Feb 2008, at 10:59, Steve Curran wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. I should have mentioned that my photo gallery is in Photoshop (File>Automate>Photo Gallery). I don’t have Aperture and I don’t use iPhoto. My gallery has several hundred pics in it. Is there a way in which Freeway can talk to Photoshop?? Grasping at straws here! Looking forward in anticipation……
You could just upload the Photoshop gallery to your server in a separate folder, then just put a link to it on a Freeway page?
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
I really hadn’t thought of this. It seems to be the simplest solution and thank you for replyig. Thank you all for your interest.
On 27 Feb 2008, at 17:25, Steve Curran wrote:
I really hadn’t thought of this. It seems to be the simplest solution and thank you for replyig. Thank you all for your interest.
Even a tiny bit of quoting would come in handy here for those of us who are reading via email. To whom are you replying, and what is it that ‘seems to be the simplest solution’?
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
Thanks for your reply Paul. 1. I’m replying to yourself. 2. My query was:
Can someone tell me how to set up a picture gallery in Freeway? Please don’t assume that I know anything about how to navigate Freeway. Plain english would be appreciated.
and 3. The simplest solution. (To quote yourself)
‘You could just upload the Photoshop gallery to your server in a separate folder, then just put a link to it on a Freeway page?’
best wishes Paul Bradforth
I hope this clarifies any doubt as to the nature of this correspondence.
Thanks to one and all who replied in the first instance.
BFN Steve
On 28 Feb 2008, at 10:16, Steve Curran wrote:
Thanks for your reply Paul. 1. I’m replying to yourself. 2. My query was:
Can someone tell me how to set up a picture gallery in Freeway? Please dont assume that I know anything about how to navigate Freeway. Plain english would be appreciated.
Thanks Steve. You can also, of course, do it by hand in Freeway, although it’s long-winded compared to a ‘ready made’ gallery. Freeway makes it easy to make a whole page of thumbnails: just draw a box for the thumbnail, option-drag to copy it to the right of the one you just drew, and continue until you have a row of boxes across the page. Set the leftmost and rightmost ones to the distance in from each border that you want, select them all, then go Item>Distribute>Horizontally, which will space them all apart equally. Then with them all still selected, go Item>Align and align the tops or bottoms.
Then go Item>Duplicate and, in the resulting dialog, enter a vertical offset of something larger than the height of the box; if the box is 150px hight, enter something like 200px. Also choose the number of duplicates you want, say 5, and hit OK. Result: a page full of identical aligned thumbnails. This is a great time-saver as, if you applied any actions or effects to the initial box, that will be included in all the copies.
Then select the first box, hit Apple-K to bring up the new link dialog, and in that dialog, choose ‘New Page’, which in turn will bring up the ‘New Page’ dialog. On the new page, draw a bigger box, the size you want the picture to display when someone clicks on the thumbnail. You can add ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ links on that page too. Hell of a lot of work to link everything, but it’s one, manual, way.
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
If the target images were already sized jpgs then you could cut out the display pages by using the spawn new window action on the thumb that is cloned across (and then down) the page. In this you simply need the action window open and can choose the appropriate jpg on your HD to display in the sized window set in the action parameter. So if your images were 800x600 you set this into the action before you clone it. Likewise any other common parameter!
all the best Brian
Paul Bradforth said recently:
Then select the first box, hit Apple-K to bring up the new link dialog, and in that dialog, choose ‘New Page’, which in turn will bring up the ‘New Page’ dialog. On the new page, draw a bigger box, the size you want the picture to display when someone clicks on the thumbnail. You can add ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ links on that page too. Hell of a lot of work to link everything, but it’s one, manual, way.
On 28 Feb 2008, at 13:54, Brian Steere wrote:
If the target images were already sized jpgs then you could cut out the display pages by using the spawn new window action on the thumb that is cloned across (and then down) the page. In this you simply need the action window open and can choose the appropriate jpg on your HD to display in the sized window set in the action parameter. So if your images were 800x600 you set this into the action before you clone it. Likewise any other common parameter!
Thanks Brian - that’s even better :-)
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
Joined minds work as one!
all the best Brian
Paul Bradforth said recently:
Thanks Brian - that’s even better :-)
Steve, Give Instant Gallery a try. This is no brained software and the galleries are wonderful. You’ll find it at www.thinkmac.co.uk/instantgallery/
I use and and love it. Version 2 will be out shortly. This is just a sample of one of my pages that use InstantGallery. www.goofygrandpa.com/pond/index.html
Give it a try and enjoy. BTW. Thinkmac support is awesome. So is Softpress.
On 28 Feb 2008, at 14:12, Brian Steere wrote:
Joined minds work as one!
You bet. A pleasure to be joined :-)
Even better: use the Freeway 5 public beta, draw a box for the thumbnail, import the (bigger, display-sized) image into it, then apply the Moo Tools Slimbox action. Sheer magic! And no need to make ANY full-size display pages either.
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
