The picture gallery, that is.
I detailed last month my irk at Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and the way it dropped straightforward HTML online galleries for fancy-shmancy Flash-based galleries (about which I’ve seen not a single encouraging word on the Adobe forums, and much lamentation similar to mine).
Two further developments.
First, Adobe has released PSE 6.0. Early reviews indicate (a) lots of bugs, (b) some performance improvements, (c) a lot of unhappiness with the interface, (d) not much meat to justify the upgrade. Oh, and, as far as I can tell, the same Flash issue. So I’m not going to be upgrading any time soon.
Second, I’ve dropped back and punted slightly. Following some advice I read, I’ve re-downloaded JAlbum — a very nice, very free web album/gallery generating tool. I actually used this for a while a couple of years ago, but then gave it up in favor of PSE (largely because PSE does a good job of managing the photo portfolio). So now I’m using PSE 5.0 to manage, edit, and export the photos, and JAlbum to collect them together for our web site.
All of which is a Good Thing, because it means I can finally get back to the job of cataloging and posting photos for the amusement of family and friends.
Using two tools for this purpose is a bit clumsy (especially if I have to add to or otherwise revise a gallery), but the results are a lot more to my liking, so I’m willing to take the slight extra effort.