This page provides more explanations on major features of the Flash photo gallery template 101 to help you produce your gallery quickly and painlessly.

Gallery Configuration
Before designing a photo gallery, you will need to decide how large your gallery will be. Use the popular monitor screen resolution as a guide. There are several typical sizes: 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768. The larger the photo gallery, the slower your gallery images will load. The following picture shows the depiction of various gallery parameters.

The default frame rate is 20 fps (frames per second). If you do not use any transition effect, a very small frame rate like 4 fps is recommended. Larger frame rate creates smoother animation but requires a lot more computing resources.

You can choose a solid color for your photo gallery background or simply upload your background image. The background image can come from your local desktop computer or any Internet address (such as http://yoursite.yourimage.jpg). Choose your color by clicking on the eyedropper tool below. Drag and click until you find the color you want. The chosen color is displayed in a small rectangle next to the tool.
The default background color is white.

Background:

A transparent background allows your web page background to show through. Some older versions of Flash and Internet Explorer do not show transparency properly.

Upload Images
Here you can start building the photo gallery by adding images from your local desktop computer or any image from the Internet.

The demo version limits the file size of each image to 192 KB. For best visual results, the images in the photo gallery should have the same size. Keep in mind that if the image does not have the same size as the specified image width and height, its top left corner is positioned at the top left corner of the image display area.

The top and left offset helps you reposition the image area to anywhere in the photo gallery. Click "Upload Image" to send your image to the server. You can toggle the "Replace instead of appending" check box to replace an existing image in the gallery with a new one. The default setting appends the image to your image list. If you want to remove an image, choose the one you want to remove and click "Remove Image".

There are 20 pictures available at 440x460 pixels ready to upload to your gallery for evaluation purposes. You can simply click on any of the provided picture of the Las Vegas tower hotels to initiate the uploading process.

Captions
This template supports the display of caption as a separate image for each image in your photo gallery. Since it is a bitmap, you can basically display anything such as customized font and graphics. Captions can be faded in when changing pictures.

Transition effects
This template provides 13 transition effects commonly used in traditional video and film. You can define the duration of the transition in seconds. The easing option slows down the transition speed towards the end of the transition effect.
1. Fade. The transparency of each image is changed gradually over time so that the new image is faded in while the existing one is faded out.
2. Zoom. The new image is scaled gradually over time until until the existing image is completely covered.
3. Zoom & Fade. Each image is scaled gradually over time so that the new image is scaled up while being faded in and the existing image is scaled down while being faded out.
4. Push Vertical. The existing image is split from the center and pushed toward the top and bottom sides to reveal the new image underneath.
5. Push Horizontal. The existing image is split from the center and pushed toward the left and right sides to reveal the new image underneath.
6. Pull Vertical. The new image is formed by pulling its parts from the top and bottom sides until the existing image is completely covered.
7. Pull Horizontal. The new image is formed by pulling its parts from the left and right sides until the existing image is completely covered.
8. Roll Vertical. The new image is revealed by splitting the existing image at its center and rolling up towards the top and bottom sides.
9. Roll Horizontal. The new image is revealed by splitting the existing image at its center and rolling up towards the left and right sides.
10. Strip Vertical. The new image is formed by moving a specified number of strips in the vertical direction until the existing image is completely covered.
11. Strip Horizontal. The new image is formed by moving a specified number of strips in the horizontal direction until the existing image is completely covered.
12. Blind Vertical. This window blind effect reveals the new image underneath when all vertical blind strips made their complete turn.
13. Blind Horizontal. This window blind effect reveals the new image underneath when all horizontal blind strips made their complete turn.

You can define the number of strips for "strip" and "blind" effects.

Thumbnails
Thumbnails are automatically generated at a specified size and can be oriented either vertically or horizontally. You can group the thumbnails into rows or columns and positioned them anywhere in your gallery. You can optionally scale the entire image to fit within each thumbnail by toggling the "Fit entire image to thumbnail" checkbox. You can also customize individual thumbnail by uploading your prepared images.

The thumbnail spacing is measured from the top left corners of adjacent ones. To avoid overlapping, the spacing should always be slightly larger than the width and height of each thumbnail. You can use the following available highlights or upload your own patterns. Please note that when you choose the border option, the border thickness should be at least 1 pixel to be visible. Press down the Ctrl key and click the desired choices to have multiple selections.

Sessions
When the browser is closed, the server saves each trial session for 24 hours. Paid sessions are saved up to 31 days. All images, thumbnails, and parameters to configure your photo gallery are restored automatically when the page is reopened. If your browser disables the use of sessions and cookies, a unique ID is supplied for paid sessions so that the session can always be restored regardless of your browser's settings.