Gallery Upgraded to Version 2.3
I use a PHP application called Gallery2 to host my photo gallery here at SamParkerPhoto.com. It automatically handles a lot of nitty-gritty details like making thumbnail images and adding watermarks, etc. Anyway, today I upgraded Gallery2 to the version 2.3, aka “Skidoo” – don’t ask me how they come up with these names.
Among the new features, the most noticeable is a much improved slideshow app. Let me reiterate here, it is much, much, much improved from previous slideshow manifestations in Gallery2. Having said that, I have one complaint: it stretches the images to fill the screen. I upload images at 800×600 or thereabouts, so when the slideshow stretches to fill a larger screen, the images look pretty bad. Unfortunately I have no control over that setting yet, but other Gallery2 users have the same complaint and hopefully there will be an update soon. I’ll keep you posted…
The site’s looking good! Here’s a hint on why version 2.3 might be called Skidoo: 23 Skidoo at Wikipedia