Comments on: Gallery vs Pixaria

By: Ross Allchorn

Ross Allchorn — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:54:12 +0000

Thanks… I may do so in the future. At the moment, I’m taking a sabbatical from commercial photography and am concentrating on other things, but will need to research software when I make my return or a client requires something that suits these wares.

By: CT Wedding Photographers

CT Wedding Photographers — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:05:52 +0000

Great article. I have been struggling with this decision and your article certainly helps. One thing I can say though, Jamie has been very responsive to my questions and feedback. If the software doesn’t have what you need, it will. He really takes a lot of pride in it.
The big thing for me as a protographer is reporting features and admin stuff. Pixaria has the ability to run a sales report, user reports, etc. I don’t believe Gallery has that feature. And as you mention, Pixaria is a more direct approach, without the need for plugins, etc.
It would be great if you could re-evaluate both programs for us now since it’s been over 2 years since you wrote the original article. Thanks for taking the time to post!

By: Almark

Almark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:15 +0000

Thank you, this has helped me make up my mind. BTW Pixaria also offer a free install for eejets like me who can use Dreamweaver but know nothing of php.

By: storm

storm — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:40:47 +0000

Thanks for this article. I bought Pixaria and aren’t too bad with CSS/HTML, but am having trouble trying to figure out how to customise the look/layout. If you have any pointers
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By: Chris Ridley

Chris Ridley — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:18:45 +0000

Great article – has made my choice that much easier. Thanks again, Chris.
http://www.11thstudio.com

By: Ross Allchorn

Ross Allchorn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Hi Alan, as far as I know, both support EXIF and IPTC quite effectively. I’m sure they both offer this info in their documentation.

By: Ross Allchorn

Ross Allchorn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:30:11 +0000

@Leon. It sounds like Gallery has grown nicely. I can’t wait for our update and re-do which is fast approaching.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:04:23 +0000

I have already done extensive keywording within Photoshop CS3′s Bridge program. How do they both compare for importing keywording, EXIF, and IPTC metadata?

Also, are there any limitation to the amount of images allowed in either system? You mentioned you have over 12,000 images in Gallery. I would hate to find out that either program bogs down with larger quantities.

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:10:34 +0000

“I sometimes have to log out quickly to see how it looks without the admin dropdown menus etc.”

There is also no need to do this either in G2 as there’s a ‘switch’ link to view the site as a ‘guest’ so you can have that open in another tab and just refresh that.

Re: Watermark, yes it’s very easy in G2 and has the option of showing WM or not if you are logged in or guest (ie: logged in user shows no WM).

Regards

By: Ross Allchorn

Ross Allchorn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:54:11 +0000

@Jason, thanks man. Glad to have a new subscriber. I don’t post hellishly often, but sometimes thats a good thing

@F.v.d. duin, thanks for pointing that out. I am going through a major overhaul/update/revamp of my gallery installation on http://www.circuitchaser.com. It will be awesome if things are as you say they are. I guess I’ll have to do a follow up article once I’ve installed and played with the latest gallery.