Seeking better Photo Pages

LK23

I am hoping to design pages to display my photos and have 2 questions:

1. Can I place a drop shadow on my images like iWeb offered?

2. Is there a plug-in that offers more control over the photo page, especially thumbnail size, drop shadow, etc?

Thanks for the assistance

Bikeman

Not sure on the drop shadow, but you can adjust the thumbnail size on the built in photo page. Just open the page info window for the page and click the gear in the upper right corner of the page. You can adjust the thumbnail size there. See attachment.

If you want a non-flash slideshow and more options try the free Rapid Album plugin-page available here: smackie.org/software/rapidalbum/

LK23

I am still having difficulty finding a theme that highlights my photography. I want a gallery page with at least four images on a row and at least 250 px thumbnails. Most of the current themes have a narrow page that only allows for three images at most. Are you aware of any themes that would meet my needs? Possibly a purchased theme?

peglomaniac

I think it is a plug-in, rather than a theme, that you need. I use the plugin RapidAlbum, that Bikeman suggested... it is really quite flexible.

I am also looking for a different solution to display photos, because I have had the odd problem with RapidAlbum, so if you do find one, please do post it in this thread .

The problems are not insurmountable, just more nuisance problems.... in one project, I cannot "duplicate" a RapidAlbum page that I have all customized the way I want - it just locks RW altogether when I try.... and, the other problem is that every time I work on one project, the next time I start RW and a different project, it says the plugin RapidAlbum cannot be found, and those pages are then generic, so I have to restart to get the plugin to get found again. It could be something to do with my projects, some of them have crazy amounts of photos in them...

Good luck anyway
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tsilva

Look at the Ultimate Gallery stack. It might suit your needs.

tsilva

You may want to consider a horizontal theme like Rapid Idea's Camilo, with a flexible gallery stack that enables large images and drop shadows like the Ultimate Gallery stack.

LK23

Where can I find the Ultimate Gallery stack? Is it a plug-in?

tsilva

http://weaveraddons.com/stacks/ultimate-gallery/

Will Woodgate

Drop shadows on images can be created using the CSS box-shadow property. So something like this added to your custom CSS box in the Page Inspector:

img {
-webkit-box-shadow: 7px 7px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.75);
-moz-box-shadow: 7px 7px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.75);
box-shadow: 7px 7px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.75);
}

The advantage of this method is that the shadow is not permanently applied to the image, instead it gets applied as a CSS effect leaving the original image unaltered. There's a good tool here which can be used to generate your box-shadow code and customise its appearance: http://css3gen.com/box-shadow/

There's lots of options in RapidWeaver to display images. Personally I prefer a plugin solution like RapidAlbum, RapidFlickr or WeaverPix. Some stack solutions can get a bit tedious if you're working with many dozens of image sets.