Hi, some time ago when Picasa Webalbum came out I was already looking for a component like this.
I guess I was a little too early at the time.
Thank God I checked again now!

This is exactly what I needed, simple clean photo-album and very, very (and I cannot say this enough :-)) easy to use.
Not only installation works out of the box (take care, php5 absolutely needed!), also maintaining your albums is SUPER-easy. Upload your albums from your local Picasa and without having to change anything on your site, all your pictures are nice in place.
This is the definition of user-friendly!

Thanks Alex

If it wasn't for 2 issues, this would be the perfect component for me, simple to use, even for users to upload pics, and easy to manage the albums.

I have been working with coppermine, ugm,... there is just to much to go around, this one does what it should, and nothing more.

One problem however is installation. Doesn't seem to be that simple. At first I was unable to upload any files. Seems you have to manually create the Base-dir "images/Albums"...

Now files do upload but don't show up in my album. Seems the component is going to stay on my testing server.

Also because of my second problem, this slideshow seems to each time reload the whole site? I can't really see because I don't have pics in my album.

So, simple concept but hard to get up and running. Not out of the box.

Another downside is that there is no installation guide or support forum, might be a good tip...

With some improvements, it could be just what I needed.