Main features
Thumbnails
When you upload a new photo, a thumbnail is automatically generated. These thumbnails are displayed on Picsengine. You can resize in live all the thumbnails. It's usefull to see more photos or to get more details.
Comments
Because you want to improve your photos or to have opinion on your work, Picsengine includes a comment feature directly accessible in the user-interface. Furthermore, comments are manageable in the admin section.
Templates
You can personnalize entirely your gallery. Thanks to the template manager. You can change the apparence of PicsEngine with the XML file and all interface bitmaps.
It's very important to adapt PicsEngine to your needs, and so to your website. You can now design PicsEngine like you want!
New templates will be released soon.
Import via FlickR
FlickR is a image hosting website. Now you can import your whole picture library into PicsEngine in a single click.
Home screen
The home screen can contain a message you want.
Featured albums are the albums you want to put on the homepage like the new ones or the most interresant.
Tags
You have the possibility to tag your photos. For example, you can tag your photo with the people’name, with the event (Sam Birthday, europe trip, ...), with the colors or anything you want.
These tags are written into your photos, so you can get them when you'll import the photos into your photo edition softwares.
A new way to navigate into photos is available in PicsEngine: the tag navigation.
EXIF Data
Numeric camera are now in each pockets, so your photos contains precious informations like the shoot date or more specifically exposure, lightness,... Now with Picsengine, EXIF are viewable by everyone (if you enable this feature) on your gallery.
PicsEngine gets IPTC keywords of your photos. You can use softwares like iPhoto, Lightroom or Aperture to tag your photos and then upload them to PicsEngine.
Slideshow
PicsEngine now include a photo slideshow. You can configure the duration between each photos, if it's fullscreen or not.
See in fullscreen
When you'll show your photos to friends or to your family, it's very cool to have it in fullscreen. It's now available!
Download photos
You can download photo by photo but the new thing is that you can download a full photo album in a ZIP file. You can disable this feature of course.
Smart albums
This is a new way to organize your photos. Create an album to search the photos with the tags “birthday” and “sam” is so much cool. Albums are dynamics, so you tag your photos and they are automatically inserted in the corresponding albums.
Albums can search by tags, but also can be sorted or limited to a specified number of photos.
A excelent feature of Picsengine is that you can organize albums in albums like a tree.
That can be useful to organize albums by themes or date.
Perhaps you want to have some privacy? Each album can be protected by a password.
You can now organize your photos in the order you want. Simply drag'n drop your photos to choose the order.
RSS Feeds
Each album have his personal RSS feed. It's useful to know if there is new photos. For example, you can add the RSS feed into iPhoto that refresh automatically the last photos. You can limit the number of photos into each feeds into the admin panel.
You can also enable the comments feed.
FTP Import
The admin panel offer a easy and quick way to upload multiple pictures from your harddrive to your gallery. But some of you want another way to import your photos. It's now available, you can import the photos you uploaded in the right directory in one click. Fast and simple.