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I grabbed this extension a few days ago and must say I am quite pleased. Installs without a hitch and looks great "out of the box." There are a LOT of configuration settings, but I think that is a good thing, it allows you to tailor your gallery to your needs. In fact, I would like to see more. Easily able to edit css from backend and usercontrol seems pretty straightforward. I have yet to find an error, although it is still a new install. I have not tried any external links, saw some complaints about that. I rate this above RSGallery2, Gallery2 bridge, and most of the other galleries that are currently available for Joomla 1.5.

No hitches with instalation. Works well. No need to register (that really irritates me because I do not want to be registered on so many sites!). Thanks guys.

Can't add url (to link to an external website) for an image.
Can't upload images through public url, only can do from local machine.
No custom fields

I have been using this for ten minutes and already see that it is far superior to morfeo show. I love that it is simple to make galleries visible to registered guests only and the bulk upload feature is a real asset. I cant wait to install cool iris!!

Hi, great thing for Joomla.
The only thing I can't figure out is, how to upload from the frontend?!

Hi..I have used the extension and it is very useful. Just what i was searching for since long, very easy to implement and great results..!!!

Good work.

I have gone through a lot of galleries on Joomla looking for the right one. I tried to like Phoca but could never figure fully figure out the process for creating user uploads areas.

With Joomgallery, it was a breeze and now it even has Piclens support!

Keep up the great work!

Pros:
- Very clean design
- Easy to upload photographs
- Easy gallery setup and structure

Cons:
- CSS modification not easy and time consuming
- Frontend gallery layout poorly designed and could benefit from addition of tables or more advanced CSS - lots of thumbnails out of alignment in category page
- No option for square thumbnails
- Comment tags in Php/Html are in German - difficult to understand if not a german speaker

Overall:
Not as polished or powerful as Gallery or Coppermine, but bridges much more easily to Joomla than either of the previous two (Gallery Bridge is woeful). This has lots of potential and look forward to further updates.

This gallery is useful to split up your images into different groups, the lightbox feature and slideshow also very nice
The one down on the component which also is good in some cases, is the amount configuration

I have long bridged Gallery 2, as it was the only professional-grade photo gallery for Joomla. But Gallery 2 is difficult to modify, configure, move from one server to another and extremely resource intensive. And all other gallery alternatives either possessed too many bugs, required too many hacks and just didn't have the right features to make it world class and adequate for many common applications.

Now, there is JoomGallery. While I passed it over for months, mistaking it for one of those inadequate and extremely buggy alternatives I took pride in avoiding, I was mistaken to have not noticed it earlier.

It works. Configuration can be quick but can likewise be extensive for those looking to fine tune. The application is fast and feature rich. It's user and administrator interface is intuitive and actually works. I'd say, it is one of the best Joomla photo gallery components to date and one of the best all-around galleries I know of.

I was surprised at many of its features and particularly surprised that such functions as the Java upload interface as well as the zip upload actually works by default and without any hacking. And the PNG watermark also works and is applied dynamically to all images so that you can update the look of your site to reflect a change in your site's template as well as for evolving marketing needs.

To add to the beauty of its many features and functions, this Joomla photo gallery component possesses a beautiful array of options for image display, including New Window, JavaScript Window, DHTML Container, Lightbox, Thickbox3 and Slimbox. Each of these actually work and arrive as an option in the admin panel. There's no need to hack core files or install templates.

For a community and/or social networking application, it works well with Community Builder, providing CB plugin integration that works out of the box and without error.

This is indeed the best Joomla photo gallery component. Thanks!

First of a big THANK YOU to the developers of JoomGallery: You did a great job.
I spend several days installing a testing the various gallery components for Joomla. Some worked well, other not at all and many would be very usable for a site were only the administrator is uploading images. But for our foto club I needed the members to be able to upload and manage their images.
JoomGallery is perfect for this:
User upload, commenting of the images, rating, all you could as for is right there. And the administration tools enable you to adjust basically evereything to you needs.
JoomGallery is the perfect tool for our site.

Wow. This gallery is ridiculously awesome. Stop using those sucky galleries and download this one! You won't be disappointed. It will work right out of the box but if you can think of ANYTHING you want to configure, believe me, it's there in the configuration manager.

My big deal was if it integrates with CB 1.2RC3 - and it does with the CB tab they have for download as well. Not only that, you get a favorite photos tab, and a gallery tab.

Help in the forums? You bet. They were right there answering my one question I had. I donated as well. I just can't imagine how much hard work that went into this component. Great job guys! And I'm hard to please! :-)

I'm sold! This is going to be my gallery for my site! I looked though all the others and some were very good, but this is without doubt my favorite! Very very well done! One of the best compenents in Jooma. Thanks for sharing this. It works just fine on my joomla 1.5 site, and works good with cb too!

I've been using Pony Gallery for years. It has done a perfect job. Help in the forums is profeshional and astonishing quick.

I Just updated to JoomGallery 1.0 now. Hey, you can even show IPTC-Data now. Wow!

Just couldn't believe this Joomgallery. After trying most of the other galleries with more and higer votes and more reviews (you know how it works) I tried this one and I never looked back. Sorry for all the other gallery projects who I'm sure put in a lot of hard work. This gallery is in a league of its own. Easy to istall, easy to work with and complete with (almost) every feature you can think of. Voting, comments, user galleries, frontend uploads, batch uploads. It is all there.

Save yourself some time and get this gallery extension installed. See it as giving yourself a Christmans present.

Everything I have read tells me this is the program for me! I can't however get the user galleries tab to work. When I click on it I get this

Error: No config file of supported galleries found. Is the component Ponygallery or Joomgallery installed?

I have tired to get support from the forum but no luck (

Well! Im shocked!! Really.

Ive tried too many galleries in the last days (or weeks)and spend so much time trying to find solutions for bugs.. and ways to add more features for my needs!

This wasnt possible so the only solution was to try even more till the end ;)

Went for JoomGallery.

Installed in a minute!!
Set in 10 minutes! (there are really too many options in the settings area and this is very very good as you can config anything you want in a very simple way)

After config you are ready to go!
No hacks, no messing up with the code, nothing!!!

Clean CSS, clean fronted 'look', votes, comments, email to a friend, share to forums etc are only some of the features.

I cant believe that what i tested is a beta . I mean what will the main version have more? (i cant think of anything)

Also i cant understand why this component is not on the top of the galleries list! It is not fair.

A big thank to the developers with much love and respect!
I made my job as i wanted to (and more) safely, fast, steady, free with no problems at all.

Hope this site to give me some money ... then Joomgal will be the first on my donation list! Absolutely!

This component is great! No registration required to download, worked first time I attmepted to install it and you would not believe the intuitive, well thought-out options! Everything you could want with a price that you can't beat!!

The features of this extension are great, and it is a very sleak interface. However, it is missing two features that keep me from rating it higher - you can not change a picture's category without deleting it and re loading it. The second missing feature is that you can only load pics individually from the front end.

Without doubt, by far the best photo gallery on offer for Joomla users. Plenty of configuration options to really fine tune things. Individual galleries can be shown/hid according to user status and the user panel allows your visitors to upload, comment and rate etc. Thumbnails, regular and detailed image sizes can all be set. Upload options include multi-image, ftp and .zip batch. Quick and easy to install (note, system-legacy plugin needs to be active).
It would be nice to be able to run the detailed images as a slideshow as well as regular images (currently only previous and next buttons are available). Also the ability to add/edit image info from the front end would be helpful.