Get invited to PicsEngine 4 beta when it will come out. You just need to subscribe to http://picsengine.com/beta/

Since the first release, PicsEngine has tremendously evolved his usability and his features. A lot of things are going to change again for you.

First, PicsEngine 4 will no longer use Flash. Flash is no more necessary to create a sexy photo gallery. PicsEngine will be based on open technologies : HTML, CSS and Javascript. This gallery is lightweighter, quicker and doesn’t depend on any plugin anymore. PicsEngine 4 is very easy-to-use and beautiful. Here are some screenshots of the currently running PicsEngine 4.

Secondly, PicsEngine 4 will be hosted by us. For now, you need a compatible webhoster to install PicsEngine. We think it’s to hard for some of you, hosters change their configuration and break PicsEngine, we can’t check the compatibility of PicsEngine on all hosters, updates are not applied by everybody. All those reasons make us believe that PicsEngine has to be hosted in one place to control every little part of it. No more installation, no more updates to do. PicsEngine will be updated for everybody at the same time.

Next, PicsEngine throw away his administration and become a single photo gallery. Why? Because we develop a new photo administration plateform of a quality which nobody has ever seen on the web. We will announce it later with the features list but here are some screenshots for you.

Finally, cherry on the cake. For experimented users that want host their photos and datas on their own server, an open-source data server will be available. Then, you just link up the server and our plateform. You really control your photos because they are hosted where you want. We think some of you really want that. Of course, for the others, we will host your photos.

Thanks for your support.

PicsEngine 3.5.3 is out and fixes these bugs :
- The integration into a website now supports album and photo parameters(http://www.picsengine.com/en/support/integrate-in-website)
- Protected photo can be downloaded correctly

Also, German and Russian languages are now included.

So PicsEngine supports : English, French, German, Portugues, Russian and Spanish.

Features

- Single click to open an album

- Speed increase for protected thumbnails

- Show the number of sub albums below the album

- Translated in Portugues (Alexandre Freire) and in Spanish (Tony L. Requena).

Bugs fixes

- Images in descriptions

- You cannot download protected pictures anymore with the context menu

- Ignore non-images files types

- Error that directly disappear

- Sort order issue with the option “contains the photos of the sub albums”

This update fixes known bugs and add some new features :
- Direct link to the photo of a comment in the administration panel.
- Modifications of link of RSS feeds to the photo in the gallery.

Update process are detailed while the download is progressing.

It’s a pleasure to announce the official release of PicsEngine 3.5. For this occasion, the website has been repolished!

I won’t list all the new features in this blog post because the homepage of the website explain it with enough details.

Of course, you can download this version for free if you already have a license of the version 3! The download page is ready! (it’s recommended to make a backup of your database before the update)

You don’t need to update if you prefer the old layout, the 3.2.2 version is stable.

If you don’t have any license, you can download PicsEngine 3.5 for a 30-days free trial!

The next release is still in development. Beta will be sent soon.
Here is a video that show some new features.

A list of the new features will be up for the release.

This year will be great for PicsEngine. The next release is in development, here are some new features:
- new navigation systems: featured albums, last comments, albums navigation, tags and search!
- the scroll wheel will be supported
- interface design is improved

Here is a little video about this version 3.3.

Fixes :

- RSS display photos that are protected when the user enter the password into the gallery

- Bug edit user

- Bug gallery when album/photo doesn’t exists

- Bug update to 3.2

- Thumbnails that doesn’t show

- Multiple lines on the featured albums

- Scrollbar bug

- Translations in English of “Ajouter un commentaire”, “Tags sélectionnés” and “Informations”

- …

The new release of PicsEngine is out.
A new support page is also available, to help beginners on PicsEngine.
New screencasts will be there soon.
You can try the online demo administration right now.

Here are the new things on the version 3.2

Features :
- Administration of photos has been remade
- New protection system for photos
- Configuration tab is remade
- Scroll when too many featured albums
- PicLens compatibility
- Complete new installation process
- Improve the speed of the loading of the interface
- Notifications when loop and last/first photo
- Support Polish characters, and some others
- Photos sorting by shooting date from EXIF
- Can load an album, photo directly via HTML
- Hide the title
- Hide the “Featured album” title
- Originals photos are conserved for downloads
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Fixes :
- Compatibility IE7
- Support Flash Player 10
- Download pictures with name with spaces on Firefox
- Select the name when edit it on Firefox PC
- IPTC accents, encodings
- Tags are no more duplicated
- Hover on a thumbnail will display the name, even if it’s selected
- Flash crash when quit the application when an image is in download
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