Photo Mechanic's Exporter

With the Export command, you can make a web gallery with all the internal links already set up. This can be posted directly to a web site and can be very useful to show a client proofs from a shoot, quickly and easily. The web pages are fully customizable with respect to colors, typefaces etc, and Variables can be used to add metadata into the layouts.

Within Photo Mechanic, is the ability to create highly customized web galleries using dynamic plug-in templates that are written in Ruby, a powerful scripting language. An HTML exporter plug-in template for Photo Mechanic is actually a Ruby script that dynamically generates both an interface for gathering the parameters for the exporter within Photo Mechanic, and the resulting HTML and associated files. The export template is free to use the full power of Ruby (but only within its "sandbox" for security).

Photo Mechanic includes a number of sample HTML export templates that generate an interesting variety of web galleries including Flash-based slide show viewers.

Working Examples:

• PM Classic
• PM Slideshow
• PM Slideshow (selections)
• BananAlbum
• AutoViewer
• PostcardViewer
• Scrolling Thumbs
• SimpleViewer

One example of a third-party HTML export template, sold separately, is the Enhanced Ordering System (EOS) Template (www.eostemplate.com) for generating web galleries with a complete stand-alone shopping cart system.

And from Airtight Interactive (www.airtightinteractive.com) we have the SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer, and AutoViewer.