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What is it?

Invision Gallery is a brand new plugin from Invision Power Services that will add a photo gallery right into your forum. Invision Gallery is a fully featured, powerful gallery system that is easy and fun to use! Over the past few months we've taken many of the most popular feature requests from our customers and integrated them into this product, and now we are prepared to give the general public its first taste of this exciting new plugin.

What are the features?

This section will give you a brief look into the many exciting and powerful administration tools that we've created for Invision Gallery. We hope you enjoy this little teaser of things to come!

Total Integration
Invision Gallery integrates seamlessly into your existing forum, using the same skin, language, and database as IPB.

Category Features
The categories in your gallery are very customizable, with full integration with the IPB group system. You can allow/disallow groups to view images, post comments, post images, and moderate. You can choose to watermark images, create thumbnails, and much more - as the following screenshots will show.

Category Listings

Category Settings

Category Permissions

Group Features
Besides being able to use the category permission system, there is an extensive group setting system to provide complete control over how your groups access the gallery. We've created this system to give you many possible ways of using it in tandem with the subscription manager. Just one example of the many setups you could use would be to allow a free group to view 20 images a day, while charging a small fee for access to a group that can view unlimited images a day! The screenshot below will show you some of the settings that we have included:

Comprehensive Statistics
Because we know that admins like to know as much as possible about how their gallery is doing, we've included a detailed statistics section. This section can not only track disk space usage, but also bandwidth usage! There's also a member report tool - so that you can identify how a specific user is using the gallery. There's even a group report tool that provides the same information, except covering an entire group! You'll also notice little magnifying glasses next to user names and group names in the statistics screen, clicking these will bring you straight to the related report.

Statistical Overview

Member Report

Powerful Tools
We've also created a set of tools to aid in the administration of your gallery. These tools include Thumbnail Regeneration, Image Resizing, Bulk Additions, and more. The Bulk Addition tool allows you to specify a directory on your server from which to add all the images found there into your gallery, you'll find a screenshot of this feature below.

What about the user end?

We're sure that your users will love Invision Gallery, we've provided all kinds of features for them. E-cards, Favorite Images, Personal Albums, are only a few of the features that Invision Gallery has to offer. You can also be sure that Invision Gallery will carry over IPB's ease of use clean layout.

When will this be available?

Soon, our team is already testing the nearly feature complete version! We plan to launch the first release candidate of Invision Gallery in the next few weeks. However, 1.0 is only the beginning; we have many exciting features planned for future releases.