Photo albums (Art module) deluxe

After the Dolphin 7 Beta became available, I received a lot of letters from customers, which were unsatisfied of new Dolphin’s picture Module. They were saying that it was complicated, not user-friendly and not so functional as they wanted. After getting all innovations of customization of Picture Module, I found that it would be better to write absolutely new Module. After hard and long work, finally I finished one of my best Modules. I called it Art module, as it’s beautiful and very functional. I tried to implement the real masterpiece adding the latest available tools and making it maximum user friendly and attractive to the final users. Everyone wants to attract as much visitors to their website as possible, and to do so, you need to provide them unique features and tools. In Art Module you will find everything for picture uploading, storing, editing, viewing and downloading.

List of features:
* independent photo module
* safe photos storing via cache files
* comments and ratio to albums – users can leave comments and rate the albums;
* country filter of albums – now users can store and search pictures by countries;
* 2 types of watermark processing
* album moderation and administration
* rss feeds – you can use RSS feeds to attract more traffic to your website;
* additional blocks to profile page and homepage
* calendar of albums – now, users can see pictures by days they were uploaded;
* album subscriptions
* adding photos methods: multi uploader, flash multi uploader, shoot,
FTP (admin only) – Users can upload pictures using multi uploader, flash uploader, make picture using Web cam. Admin also can upload pictures using FTP;
* membership actions
* download original – now users can download pictures in original size;
* powerful SEO
* set any album photo as thumb of album – users can choose any picture and set it as a cover (Thumb) of an album;
* albums and photos are searchable – users can search pictures and albums by different parameters (ex: name, dimension of image, etc.);
* Adult photos feature
* Album optimization feature (splitting one album with many photos to several average albums)
* Tag feature - You can tag any objects at your images: your friends, family etc
* Creative Commons licensing integration
* comments to photos
* 'Top', 'Popular', 'Last' tabs at albums page. Allowing to sort albums as we want.
* ratio and views to photos
* sorting photos inside album by 'top', 'popular', 'last' using jquery (without reloading page - all super fast)
* view images at different color background. With step of gradation in 10%
* gold grid feature
* Integrated privacy on albums
* PNG/GIF support
* last uploaded photo become thumb for album
* Last, Popular, Top, Last week top, Last month top tab options for block at index page
* New block at Index page with photos with tabs: Last, Popular, Top, Last week top, Last month top
* HTML5 image photo upload (this is your future!)
* Multiple Sub-albums support
* Profiles tagging feature
* moderation enhances
* EXIF display data support (optional). There is live example of file with exif data.
* new free dhtml gallery is integrated (galleriffic)
* fancybox (analog of lightbox) is integrated to Album view page
* Timeline and Outline support (wall)
* New admin panel options: 'Default upload mode', 'Save original photos', 'Max upload file size'
* New membership driven actions: 'Download original' and 'Draw'


list of extra features:

* extra views (7 different unique views) – this deluxe feature allows your users change the gallery view. I added 7 different types of views, which are making your website to look more creative and functional and to attract more people. All users I worked with like this feature and asked me to add it to the Art module (all these views - integrations of different galleries).
* flickt integration- users can easily upload pictures from flickr;
* pixlr integration (online Photoshop) – this is one of the most powerful Image editing tools which provides your users online version of Photoshop, so they can do everything they could do in Photoshop from your website. They also can switch the interface language which makes it more comfortable to work with.

New features (changes for > 7.1):
* new member menu links (add content links)
* dolphin's site stat
* new dolphin's charts
* vector icons


This module is compatible with Dolphin 7.0.x - 7.3.x (any subversion).
Free installations is included !
You can also read my own blog: HTML5 and CSS3 Tutorials