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[[!meta title="My photo publishing approach"]]
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During a discussion about image management software like
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[gthumb](http://live.gnome.org/gthumb),
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[f-spot](http://f-spot.org/) or [shotwell](http://yorba.org/shotwell/),
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we came up with the question how far a management software should go.
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Should it provide basic image manipulation? Publishing to the web?
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Creation of static web albums?
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For me the feature "create static webalbum" is very important,
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as I don't want to publish my images/photos on sites like
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[picasa](http://picasaweb.google.com/) or
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[flickr](http://www.flickr.com/), because I don't want to depend
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on these companies. I especially do not want to recreate
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all the albums, if one of those companies stops providing the service.
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One of the main questions is, which program should handle the gallery
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creation process:
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* the image viewing / managing utility (most likely with a gui)
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* an external command line utility
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After some time, I think there are some key points:
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* a special designed command line utility may be better suited for the job
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* a gui may be very good suited to actually select the right images
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## How I create and publish static photo galleries
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So in the end, I decided for the following setup:
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* Use shotwell to organise photos
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* Use shotwell to export downscaled version of photos to a directory
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(one per event)
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* Create a Makefile, which utilises llgal to (re-)create the whole website
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Thus I can change the gui, but do not need to change the gallery format.
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You can find the result at
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[photo.nico.schottelius.org](http://photo.nico.schottelius.org).
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## SEE ALSO
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* [[docs/static-image-gallery-generator-comparison]]
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[[!tag net unix]]
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