Expose is most clean and powerful gallery i've even seen. Really great work.

One of the best joomla components I've ever used. Can't say anymore than that. Superb product!

For some reason when I try to make the "Large image" bigger than 900x600, it has 0 effect on changing it. I made it 2000x2000, but its still like 900x512 or something. I have some very large images here (1600x1200) and I need them to go very big...but this is not working right. If someone could help, I would appreciate it

Besides that, it works beautifully. A bit of requirement specific, but not a big deal...I can see why. Its a very good image gallery, and I think its soo much better than gallery2 and coppermine as its just plain beautiful. Thanks for keeping it free!!!

I've spent several days getting a competent install of this extension and the results are very good. You must tweak the XML files and the two html files to build a viable component for your site. The tweaks are simple and well explained.

Documents are available, but there are still many missing links in information. The documents are adequate for doing the install, and you have to read them carefully.

The ability to apply a URL link to images is supposed to be available in the latest RC. I think the feature is working. I just can't find information on how to apply the links to images, nor can I find a way to turn off the feature. So users can click on the full view image and they get a big error message. The reason they click on the images is because the limitations on image size are 400x400 for best use. Images within the 400x400 are adequate for all my applications. Users will undoubtably click to enlarge, if they're interested in an image.

There is mention that a background image can be applied in lieu of background colors, which is also obviously a feature when you run the demo. The problem is... I cannot find anywhere on the slooz.com site or by googling how to apply a background image.

The files are stored in jpg format, and that is all the gallery recognizes. It is an html app so all your files are within a folder on your site, not in MySql database. This might have some security implications.

I did give up on this as a Joomla component install, because I don't have the DOM, iconv extensions enabled, nor do I allow_url_fopen turned on in php. I just installed it as a standalone application, which is pretty easy to do. I just use a Joomla wrapper to access it.

The slooz.com (homesite) has a forums, but the activity is practically nil. It appears to me you'll probably get better responses to questions among Joomla users.

I definitely like the expose4. I've got one site with over 2,000 images and the expose works very well working with that many images very flexibly. It's not boring to use, it manages images in a kind of fluid manner, and
and definitely does not appear to be a rigid application to users. (that's important to me)

I highly recommend as a standalone application.

I had the gallery up and running in less than ten minutes. The only part that wasn't obvious was having to right click to save the description text for my new albums.

Great job ! Thanks for this professional looking extension.

I have been a Joomla User Since the begining and almost 2 years of mambo before that so I have seen just about all the galleries out there, My main sites have always been to display my photos so that was my key mission. Other than using created flash this is the only gallery that will allow you, users or your clients to create galleries and upload images. the gallery will even resize the images for you. I've talked to the orig developer Ivan Dramaliev when I was purchasing the stand alone version and he was the coolest scripter I've chatted with, he helped me customize the script and all. But Josh just made it all easier and he did it for free. Thanks Josh!!!

If you need a slick flash gallery, then stop searching. I have tried a lot of differnt plug-ins and NOTHING comes close to this. It has always looked very slick and professional, but now it functions every bit as good as it looks. It is a credit to the developers, both in terms of its function and that they still dont charge for non-commercial use. Absolutely wonderful. Thank-you.

I love the usability and overall look and design. Being flash based it is the best, and just makes it "rock" that much harder!
Im sure many of my sites are getting a much deserved upgarde with this componant...even better it saves me from using flash to put together good gallerys.

And may I say when it comes to joomla functionality nothing is better and more stable without the bugs that java bring with compatability issues

When I was looking for a Gallery, none of the others caught my attention as to what I wanted on my site. The demo page certainly got my attention. True, it's a bit futzy with requirements and stuff, but what do you expect from something that looks and works this good?

Works fine if you're hosted of GoDaddy, even pretty easy to change background color and component size (instructions are in the forums). Even on my site that has three different languages, worked fine.

Definately something to have if your server meets the requirements, looks a treat!

This is by far the easiest, cleanest, and most fun gallery to use. The fact that is flash-based makes it superb. Two thumbs up!

This gallery looks great and works well, with a clean, smooth user interface. It worked consistently on IE, Firefox and Safari, running smoothly even on a seven-year old iMac. But I was up against two problems:

- No multilingual support. There is a centralized "strings.xml" file that allows easy translation, but if I understood the discussions in the support forum correctly, you cannot switch languages dynamically, let alone use JoomFish to translate.

- In IE7, the gallery rendered in front of my drop-down menus, even though the mosLoadModules for the menus come later in index.php. I'm using swMenuFree, but I suspect it might happen with other drop-down menu extensions.

I also had some access-rights issues in the back end, but those appear to be fairly common, with lots of suggested fixes.

Hi!
It's a excellent component!!!
But is not work flash with cyrilic :(
The fonts in flash is not support cyrilic.

Although the released versions backend doesn't work,
after checking out the support forum i got it to work.

The exclusive look and feel of this gallery is excellent,
it looks great!

This will grow into a superb gallery in a while,making
it look like an integrated part of my site is probably not
possible at the moment, but I'm sure it will get there. It does provide a lot of options for customizing, but sadly this is all text based at the moment.

Thank you very much Authors and other who contribute!


If you have problems, have a look at the following i cut from the forum:

"
First check if your system has the support to run the manager

Run
http://www.yoursite.com/components/com_expose/expose/manager/check_system.php

If all is ok there then..

Try to replace the manager with the standalone manager.

http://www.slooz.com/download.php?f=album_manager_php_1.02.zip

Delete com_expose/expose/manager folder
Unzip the content of the zip file to /com_expose/expose

If it still doesn't work try to create the .htaccess file.

Make sure you have the .htaccess in the com_expose/expose/manager/upload
with the following in it:


Code:
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
"

I've been using this component for about a year now using just the desktop Album Manager to upload my photos. It was a pain. Now it seems that the backend is working properly with the newest version! It's awesome! I love the ability to create thumbs so quick. The only prob is it seems that the front doesn't work when Search Engine Friendly URLs are enabled. np :)

Now the best picture galery got even better with the RC3 release. You now can link directly to albums or even photos. that's great :) I recommen it absolutely it's the best i ever seen and the support is great too, via forums or messenger :)
I don't know what to say else except continue like this :)