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Table Of Contents
  Simple album
  Add captions
  Hiding Photos
  Using A Theme
  Medium images
  Adding some EXIF captions
  Adding more albums
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1:   Simple album
Presuming you've already installed album properly, we can do some
simple cases.  If you have any errors or problems here, see the
installation docs.
You need a web directory to put themes and your photo album.
We'll use /home/httpd/test in this documentation.  This needs
to be viewable by a webserver.  In this example we'll use the URL:
  http://myserver/test/
Adjust your commands/URLs appropriately
First create a directory and put some images in it.  We'll call this:
  /home/httpd/test/Photos
And we'll add some images called 'IMG_001.jpg' through 'IMG_004.jpg'
Now for the simple case, just run album:
% album /home/httpd/test/PhotosNow you can view the album in a web browser at something like:
  http://myserver/test/Photos
2:   Add captions
Create a file /home/httpd/test/Photos/captions.txt with the following
contents (use the 'tab' key where you see "  [tab]  ")
-- captions.txt ---------
IMG_001.jpg  [tab]  First image name
IMG_002.jpg  [tab]  Second image
IMG_003.jpg  [tab]  Another image  [tab]   with a caption!
IMG_004.jpg  [tab]  Last image     [tab]   with another caption.
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And run album again:% album /home/httpd/test/PhotosAnd you'll see the captions change.
Now create a file with text in: /home/httpd/test/Photos/header.txt
And run album again.  You'll see that text at the top of the page.
3:   Hiding Photos
There are a few ways to hide photos/files/directories, but we'll use
the captions file.  Try commenting out an image with '#' in captions.txt:
-- captions.txt ---------
IMG_001.jpg  [tab]  First image name
#IMG_002.jpg  [tab]  Second image
IMG_003.jpg  [tab]  Another image  [tab]   with a caption!
IMG_004.jpg  [tab]  Last image     [tab]   with another caption.
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Run album again, and you'll see that IMG_002.jpg is now missing.
If we had done this before running album the first time, we wouldn't
have ever generated the medium or thumbnail images.  If you like,
you can remove them now with -clean:% album -clean /home/httpd/test/Photos4:   Using A Theme
If themes were installed properly and are in your theme_path then
you should be able to use a theme with your album:% album -theme Blue /home/httpd/test/PhotosThe photo album should now be using the Blue theme.  If it has
a bunch of broken images, then your theme probably hasn't been
installed into a web-accessible directory, see the Installation docs.
Album saves the options you specify, so the next time you run album:% album /home/httpd/test/PhotosYou'll still be using the Blue theme.  To turn off a theme, you can:% album -no_theme /home/httpd/test/Photos5:   Medium images
Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so
we'll use medium images on the image pages:% album -medium 33% /home/httpd/test/PhotosYou can still access the full size images by clicking on the medium image, or:% album -just_medium /home/httpd/test/PhotosWill keep the full size image from being linked in (presuming we'd
run with the -medium option at some point)
6:   Adding some EXIF captions
Let's add aperture info to the captions of each image.% album -exif "<br>aperture=%Aperture%" /home/httpd/test/PhotosThis will only add aperture information for any images that have specified
the 'Aperture' exif tag (the part between the '%' signs).  We also put
a <br> tag in there so the exif info is on a new line.
We can add more exif info:% album -exif "<br>focal: %FocalLength%" /home/httpd/test/PhotosBecause album saved our options before, we now get both EXIF tags for any
images that specify Aperture and FocalLength.  Let's remove aperture:% album -no_exif "<br>aperture=%Aperture%" /home/httpd/test/PhotosThe '-no_exif' option has to match the previous exif string exactly or
it will be ignored.  You can also edit the config file that album created:
  /home/httpd/test/Photos/album.conf
And remove it there.
7:   Adding more albums
Let's say we go on a trip to spain.  We take some photos and put them in:
  /home/httpd/test/Photos/Spain/
Now run album again on the top level:% album /home/httpd/test/PhotosThis will fixup Photos so it now links to spain and will run album
on Spain/ as well, with the same settings/theme, etc..
Now let's go on another trip, and we create:
  /home/httpd/test/Photos/Italy/
We could run album on the top level:% album /home/httpd/test/PhotosBut that would rescan the Spain directory which hasn't changed.
Album usually won't generate any HTML or thumbnails unless it needs to,
but it can still waste time, especially as our albums get bigger.
So we can tell it to just add the new directory:% album -add /home/httpd/test/Photos/ItalyThis will fix the top index (in Photos) and generate the Italy album.
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David Ljung Madison  [http://GetDave.com/]  Created by make_faq from Marginal Hacks 
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