QuickyPix

QuickyPix is an instant thumbnail web photo gallery software in Python.

QuickyPix is a photo gallery system. See history of development.

QuickyPix is not for everyone. If you don't know anything about web and CGI applications yet want a kitchen sink of features in your web gallery, I recommend Gallery. If you want a very small base for developing your own gallery software you might try Pix, on which QuickyPix was originally based.

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Installation

See installation documentation.

Development

Screenshot

[Screenshot of QuickyPix in a browser]

Demo

My personal photo website is http://photo.quarl.org/.

Features

Thumbnails
  • Album highlight with outset border
  • Movie thumbnails, with distinctive "movie" label
"Instant-on"
  • No import needed: add pictures simply by copying to the photo directory
  • Cached, on-demand image resizing
Meaningful URLs
  • Web hierarchy reflects file system hierarchy
The photo tree is untouched (except when editing metadata)
  • Cache data goes in a separate tree
  • Thus, you can easily backup the entire photo tree
Supported formats
  • jpg, png, gif, etc.; avi, mpg
Picture info
  • Image dimensions, picture-taken timestamp, movie length, codec, etc.
Metadata
  • album title, album comment, picture comment, album highlight
Admin mode
  • Resizing, rotating (including movies), transcoding, deleting, editing captions, changing highlight
  • Security: can partition read-only normal mode into separate user id; only authenticated users can even run under process that has file system write permissions
Template engine using XHTML and CSS
  • Fluid-yet-aligned thumbnail arrangement (no tables)
  • Validated XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS

Authors

License: GPL v2+

QuickyPix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

QuickyPix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.