Image galleries?

[sprugman]

Hi,

I'm evaluating using punch for a project that is pretty heavy with image galleries. How does it deal with that issue? I guess my ideal would be something like:

• I can have a "gallery" page type
• I can have a gallery of galleries at the top of the structure
• I can dump a bunch of images of whatever sizes into a folder in it
• jekyll will take care of processing the images into thumbnails and full-size(s) according to some settings in a config file somewhere (probably downscaling only)
• on my gallery html page, I add whatever image viewer I want and punch will take care of converting the list of files to a JSON object that's consumed by the slideshow plugin
  • or, I can use some kind of template just to show the images or thumbnails statically on the page.

Is this possible/easy? If not are there any static site generators that are good at this?

[sprugman]

Thought of another "nice to have": it would be good to be able to specify meta data about the images somehow, though I suppose worst comes to worst, that could be done in JSON on the client side.

[laktek]

You can define your galleries in JSON format and use that to render the pages (same applies to galleries of galleries). Maybe you can write a custom content handler that would get the image data from a service (eg. Flickr, Dropbox, 500px, etc) or from a local directory and spew out the JSON output dynamically.

However, currently there's no out of the box support for creating thumbnails (or image optimisation). I'd welcome if you like to contribute that feature :)