Web Gallery – Choosing one

I’ve spent a couple of days studying various web gallery solutions.

Requirements
My requirements are:

  • Be suitable for a single person gallery. I’m not looking to build a photo portal, just my own galleries / albums.
  • Handle EXIF photo data.
  • Be easy to set up.
  • Be attractive, with the ability to change themes, or select themes. And to customize my own theme.
  • Be free, and open source.

I’ve spent a couple of days studying various web gallery solutions.

Requirements
My requirements are:

  • Be suitable for a single person gallery. I’m not looking to build a photo portal, just my own galleries / albums.
  • Handle EXIF photo data.
  • Be easy to set up.
  • Be attractive, with the ability to change themes, or select themes. And to customize my own theme.
  • Be free, and open source.

Candidates
I found the following candidates. I’m sure this is not an exhaustive list. But I trust google to find the most popular candidates in the first couple of pages of a search.
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Photography Management – IMatch

A few months ago I realized that I need a heavy duty tool to keep track of my photographs. I did a lot of research and finally came up with IMatch.

Here’s why…

A few months ago I realized that I need a heavy duty tool to keep track of my photographs. I did a lot of research and finally came up with IMatch.

I’m not going to go through all the research here. I found an informative list of tools and reviews in the forums over at DPReview and using google turned up a few other compendium pages that were helpful.
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