Thmbdir

About

Thmbdir is a tool that generates a static web album from a folder of photos. Static means that you can burn it on a CDROM and it still works. But it's quite dynamic in the interface because of the JavaScript.

Technical

The generator is mainly written in shell script which uses ImageMagick for photo manipulations or optionaly my own C++ written photo scaling tool. The output is JPG miniatures, HTML and JavaScript.

Features

• Folder containing sub folders, or photos, or both.
• 3 photo sizes: thumbnail, mini (typically 800pixels), and maxi - the original size
• Replaceable HTML templates for changing design
• Preloading with feedback of the mini size images
• Several speeds of slide show
• Easy mouse navigation (onmouseover photo switching)
• Cover photo selection for sub folders
• Sub folder ignoring
• Recursive regeneration
• Dynamic photo selection (e.g. for pasting filenames into IM)
• Adds nice shadows to the thumbnails
• Pre-load progress indicator
• Multi-lang captions possible
• Changelog creation

Example

In fact in order to embed the example like this in the page, it's been a bit modified and simplified. The photos are from my macro attempts.