Works great, simple to install, and has a plethora of options. Absolutely incredible gallery system.

After years of bridging Gallery I decided to go for a native Joomla solution. After trying several of the top downloaded galleries I choose JoomGallery.

The installation and initial, basic setup is quick and fairly standard. It is in the detailed configuration and complete control you have over every aspect of the user interface and rich set of features that makes this component stand above the rest.

Also a standout is the support supplied by the developer. I had a minor issue getting my gallery to look a certain way and over the course of several days I was in communication with the developer via his support forum and he explained to me how to accomplish what I set out to do. As far as I'm concerned, this is better support than what you normally get with even commercial products.

Highly recommended.

This image gallery pretty much does everything that one could ask for, except for taking the photos for you!

There are a huge amount of options to customize things with, practically everything can be changed around.

5 stars is not enough.
Criticism - humans made this, that is all I can say - what we are getting is way too huge to be expressing any puny pity thing in return..

Guys .. Seriously .. THANK YOU

Thanks for the component is very good and I am going to use it for my sites.

That is one of the best if not the best Joomla gallery component on this planet!
It offers a very wide range of parametering possibilities! That is a high end work from developers! Besides that! Languages files are available and great! I love the fact that it integrates flawlessly with CB.
Again! A must to have in a joomla website!
Professional from all sides!
Thank you!

I vote for this extension because of its usability at the point of a non-commercial one. Frankly speaking, the backend interface is complicated and takes time to learn how to customize its functions. Some newbies may be confused with the tabs and supporting functions. Overall, it is an excellent extension!!

I wanted to let users upload there own pictures on my website and I thought that I will not find something like that until I came across JoomGallery. This component is simply the best gallery plug-in for Joomla,it is fully packed with all kind of features with a easy interface that allows you to configure everything there is to configure.All I want to say is thank you very much for letting us use such a great component free of charge,it is simply amazing and it works flawlessly!
Best regards

I couldn't be more thankful for this component. Everything works great.

Except... Everybody is promising support for 3rd party extensions, but it is always a half-support.

I am angry these days about those half-integrations.
Azrul's JomComment, Joomlapolis Community Builder, UddeIM PMS and this component... Every one of them - great stuff... But, integrations or support between them is poor, in most cases just a nice goodnight story.

this is the most advanced gallery component I've had the pleasure to use. it takes time to go through the endless configuration options but you can use it for anything from a simple gallery with large versions in lightboxes to an advanced one with ratings, comments, slideshows, favorites, integration with other components, etc. several options of pop-ups/lighboxes, several ways to upload images (up to 10 single images, batch, FTP, java), you will rarely think of a functionality that this monster doesn't support

feature request - could handle audio/video as well as currently it's impossible to find a component to handle all the 3 media types that isn't trapped in a tight unfriendly flash interface

congrats on a solid reliable application!

I've tried quite a few galleries and there are some very good ones but the options available in this one far surpass the others.
Installation was easy and so was an update to the software. I had to edit nothing to get it working just spend a bit of time learning what all the options did before going live on site.
Also has a module that shows slideshows or thumb size images…so many cool options.
Highly recommend joomgallery!

Thanks to all the developers!

This component does everything I need. I was looking for an easy way to upload, resize, and watermark images and it does them all. This will save me so much time!

The Pros
This is nice once the images have been reduced and published. The modules (especially joomimg)are great for teaser display throughout the site and the plugin to in include a gallery image into articles is very useful.

The 'Motion Gallery' beats CPG (Coppermine Photo Gallery) static thumbs. Modal window for detailed image view is to die for. The comment system, BBcode share system, Image rating and image details are just perfect.

The admin... ideal! Well explained (for those who read) and easily tweaked to suit.

Styling is quite simple too (of course with knowledge of)

The Cons
Unlike CPG, when using FTP upload I expected to be able to FTP large image files to the server then Joom Gallery in combo with ImageMagick or GD2 would resize the images as set in config. Not so! A file at 2mb could not be processed and even with debug on I never got a clear msg of what the problem was. CPG processes any file size once it is on the server. I expect and error when using php upload if php.ini is set to 2mb but FTP should not have this issue. Atleast it doesn't with CPG. Also when I uncheck 'Delete pictures after upload?', Joomgal still deletes the originals.

The category system should be labeled 'Galleries' or 'Albums'. I take pix weekly at events and need to label each week and venue. With CPG I had category then Albums in categories. With JoomGal its just unending categories. I suppose I could just change the label. So no big deal.

The 'Motion Gallery' while a great function, is uncontrollable. No means in admin of speed adjustment. While one is trying to move to another image the thing just runs the list and it's like playing a video game to catch the image you want. This means then digging in and editing the javascript that executes the action.

But overall I likes. Great job!

installs with no problems.many options in the configuration settings.it does whatever a gallery is supposed to do and with a lot of styling.only faced problem with image uploading.with the support i was able to figure that and is working like charm for me.thanks for the extension

Awesome extension. Been looking for a gallery with various settings and this is the right one! It has so many user settings you can set it to your needs in few minutes. No problem during the installation,upload, view. A++

I wanted for a component to replace using a bridged Gallery 2.3 installation that I used for several years because of its comprehensive customization features. JoomGallery turned out to be a fine choice for my sites and my clients' sites. I am currently working with JoomGallery 1.5.0.3 on Joomla! 1.5.14 and it integrates well with my CB 1.2 -- all in full Joomla! Native Mode. Installation was a piece of cake. Beside the Component there are several Modules installable from the Extensions manager and one Community Builder Plugin installable from the CB component panel. The JoomGallery component panel is chock full of options. Though it takes time to sift through all of them, the fact that they are offered means this component allows heavy customization where some others seem to take a one size fits all approach. I love options and so do my clients. And unlike what I've been using for all this time, this is in fact a true Joomla native component requiring no bridges or file hacks, so my Joomlapack one button backup now protects my photo galleries, too. Nice job on this one!

I was looking for an image handling, image-sharing component, which can be attached to the Community Builder. Long time, much like I tried, but I've found the right one. This is the best on the market. Easy to install, manage, and still look beautiful. Thanks for the sharing!

I've been designing Joomla sites for over 3 years now, and tried over a dozen different gallery solutions in that time, including some "wrapped" external scripts.

JoomGallery is one of the easiest I've found to use for a basic gallery. I haven't had the need yet to get into all of the features, but for a simple gallery it has worked as advertised.

One missing feature is the lack of a menu-link for individual categories. The solution of creating an external link to a specific page won't work either - something about having to log on to view a public page (?).

Hopefully the developer will get around to adding the Category Link in order to make this extension more adaptable to general website needs.

Regarding the reported permissions problems, I have often found with Joomla that problems are usually not so much with the component as it was written and intended, but more often with the way someone is trying to use it - a way the developer may not have yet considered.

Let's just say that this one works out of the box for basic requirements, and that future development will hopefully take it closer to becoming 100% stable.

The promise of this extension -- as with many Joomla extensions -- simply does not manifest itself in practice. It's a fine idea, but I've just spent an afternoon struggling with this, and for no apparent reason, it just breaks on me.

I'm no newbie. I've been dealing with the ups and downs of Joomla and its various extensions for well over a year. I know my way around unix servers, FTP, permissions, and all that.

I installed this extension, and it immediately reports that I have permission problems in directories that it must access. Never before have I had to manually set directories to 766, but for whatever reason, Joomgallery wants this. Strike one.

So, I go an set all the directories thusly, and I get green OKs from the configuration. Then I try uploading with Java. No go. Long error message that is also reported to no avail on the JoomGallery forum, but the developer has no idea what's causing it. Strike two.

Then I try to upload a single image. More errors. File uploads, but does not populate into the the thumbnail and detail directories. And worse, the images that used to appear in the slide show disappear. Strike three!

Finally,the back-end UI is clunky and awkward with a bazillion options that would confuse a shuttle astronaut, never mind my clients.

The extension seems hopelessly broken and I'm afraid I'm going to have to look for another solution.

Even if i'm new to joomla, i can say that this extension is really great if you want a clean and nice gallery, especially if you have a lot of photos, its really "user-friendly" for a open-source product, i can say that it is a bit hard to find help on the forums, but i really didn't have much problems which i couldn't solve myself.. so my sincere congratulations to the team who worked so hard for this wonderful extension

Brilliant gallery, it can be as complex or as simple as you like.

You can enable and disable HEAPS of options to craft this gallery category exactly as you want it. Very nice. Don't be scared to give it a try. The back-end is pretty easy to understand and there are heaps of options for uploading (single, bulk, ftp... etc).

I was looking for something fairly simple, at first I thought this would be too complex -but I am very happy with it and recommend it to anyone.

Only thing I have yet to do is figure a way to have a menu link that will open just a single category instead of going to the categories view list (as I only use one category) -worked something out using a "External Link" to the page. Perhaps this could be added later.

Clifton.