Setting up a fast and simple web gallery
There are endless articles on how to set up a web gallery – from sophisticated albums with user interaction to plain html pages. My best choice is Menalto’s Gallery because of its extensive features and huge caching (fast speed). However, sometimes I just need a more simple solution with these objectives:
- Properly resized thumbnails – beware, some scripts just shrink the photos and do not create thumbnails 
- Watermarks – very important, because my best friend is a photograpger and paranoic
- Resized images – again my friend sends me very big images which are too slow to be downloaded
So the easiest solution to the above is:
1. Resize my images with Imagemagick’s convert:
convert -resize 800 “_MG_*” my-pics.jpg
This resizes correspondingly all images to be 800 px wide. This also changes their name from _MG_ something to a name of your choice – extra bonus
2. Set the watermark:
for i in my-pics*; do composite -gravity SouthEast mylogo.gif $i $i; done
This sets mylogo.gif as the watermark for all images. The orientation is SouthEst, meaning the logo will be put in the right-down corner of the photo.
3. Use llgal to generate the html pages and thumbnails. Llgal comes with most Linux distributions and is a fast and elegant script You just have to issue ‘llgal’ in the directory of your photos – it takes care about everything else.