Easy Web Gallery Builder - What's New?

Build Video Galleries - Extract Video Thumbnails

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You can find the major changes in every release in the list below. We recommend using the latest version.

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Compatible with Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (Both 32 & 64 Bit)

Easy Web Gallery Builder What's New

Version 2.5.0.1:

Updated: Support for modern browsers when creating Slideshow galleries
Updated: Support for modern browsers when creating Video galleries from .mp4, .webm and .ogv video files

Version 2.2.0.2:

Added: New thumbnail "Description text" and "Alt text" option - Filename (without extension)

Version 2.2.0.1:

Fixed: Long description is not displayed in slideshow mode
Added: Improved image processing performance

Version 2.0.0.2:

Added: In Build Gallery tab added option to set the encoding of the generated HTML files

Version 2.0.0.1:

Added full Unicode support, so that galleries can be created using multiple languages at the same time
Added support for Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
Fixed: Top page title was not displayed above the image inside the image HTML pages

Version 1.9.5.1:

Navigation bars are now placed in a separate table so the texts or buttons will stay on the same place even if you browse through images with different widths
In Navigation page settings you can choose where you want to show the navigation bar on the thumbnail and/or image pages
Added option Cell width to set the navigation item width in pixels
Added support for Panasonic's RW2 RAW camera format extension

Version 1.9.2.1:

Added: In Output tab added option "Remove EXIF information from output images"
Added: In Thumbnail pages tab added option "Add navigation bar above the table"
Added: In Gallery Settings tab added option "Disable right mouse click in browsers"
Added: The program now supports digital camera RAW images. The supported extensions are: *.crw; *.cr2; *.nef; *.raw; *.pef; *.raf; *.x3f; *.bay; *.orf; *.srf; *.mrw; *.dcr; *.sr2; *.dng; *.erf; *.mef; *.arw;
Changed: Last project is not automatically loaded on startup. Use the MRU list from File menu to fast access to the projects

Version 1.9.0.1:

Added: Embed Windows Media Player or custom media player in video pages
Added: Button Open Target Folder in Build tab to quick access the output gallery folder
Added: Option to copy video files to target gallery folder
Changed: Header HTML code is now inserted after <BODY> tag and footer HTML code before </BODY> tag
Changed: Thumbnail and image navigation settings are moved in separate Navigation tab sheet under Gallery page
Fixed: Bold, italic and underline buttons not working in Long Image Description Editor
Fixed: Rotate and flip buttons are now disabled if video file was selected
Fixed: Thumbnail color shadow wasn't updated in thumbnail preview

Version 1.8.5.1:

Added: Option to change the default gallery index file name
Added: Adobe Photoshop (*.PSD) files support
Fixed: Incorrect JPEG files width and height on some images
Fixed: Not resizing images when Keep Aspect ratio was checked
Fixed: Always converting images to JPEG when there is no need for that
Fixed: Wrong slideshow descriptions
Changed: Slideshow table keeps its size on images with different height and/or width

Version 1.8.0.1:

Added: You can now add image frames (masks) to the thumbnails and/or images
Added: You can now advanced edit the image description through a simple description editor
Added: 30 frames masks that you can use
Changed: New color dialog
Updated: Internal image component and help

Version 1.7.0.1:

Added: You can now create slideshow with transition effects for the image pages
Added: You can now rotate and/or flip images before creating a gallery
Added: You can now save/delete your custom color templates
Added: You can adjust the texts and image files for the First and Last thumbnail and/or image page links
Added: Added option to "Link directly to videos" in the thumbnail pages
Changed: Thumbnail settings allow widths and heights up to 3000 pixels
Changed: Output JPEG color space is now always set to YCbCr (24-bit CCIR Recommendation 601-1)
Fixed: Fixed a bug that prevents generating thumbnail pages if "Table Auto Width" was unchecked
Fixed: Fixed image watermark not working
Fixed: Fixed an issue with the thumbnail pages header not showing in the proper place

Version 1.6.0.2:

Fixed: The last opened/saved project was not auto-loaded on program startup
Fixed: 'Jump To' menu was not using the setting from Gallery - Links target
Fixed: Directly linked images were not using the setting from Gallery - Links target
Fixed: Help button/menu was not working after loading a project

Version 1.6.0.1:

Added: Support for creating thumbnails and images from movie files with the following file extensions: *.avi; *.mpg; *.mpeg; *.m2v; *.asf; *.wmv; *.rm; *.ram; *.rmvb; *.mov; *.qt; *.mkv
Note: Capturing frames from movie files requires at least DirectX 8.1 and appropriate DirectShow codecs to be installed or you'll get a blank picture and thumbnail.
Added: You can set custom description for each file.
Added: Custom description can be set as thumbnail description and/or shown above the big images as a title.
Added: You can adjust the drop shadow color.
Added: Fields for entering custom META tags - Title, Abstract, Description, Keywords, Author and Owner.
Added: Option to link the big images to the corresponding movie files.
Added: Option for red eye removal.
Added: You can change the HTML files extension, which is '.html' by default
Added: Three new color templates - Dark Blue, Pink and Yellow
Fixed a couple of bugs, minor GUI changes.

Version 1.5.0.1:

Added: It is now possible to customize the image and thumbnail pages navigation bars using text or image links.
Added: Options to customize the output file names to Original, Original (lowercase), Original (web-safe), Auto numbering and Random.
Added: Option to select images max file size. The quality of the generated images will be reduced until it reaches the desired file size.
Added: Option for random watermark position.
Added: Option to show/hide the thumbnail pages table caption.
Added: Option to link the thumbnails directly to images. In this case image pages will not be generated.
Added: In the files tab there is a grid showing simple image information.
Added: Toolbar for quick access to most of the functions.
Added: Most recently used (MRU) projects file list menu.
Added: You can link the big images to files from the image pages tab.
Added: Options to specify full server path for images and thumbnails.
Redesigned GUI, changed menu and toolbar icons, created tabs for Image Pages and Thumbnail Pages.
Easy Web Gallery Builder now uses native XML parser, so there is no need for Internet Explorer 5.0 to be installed anymore.
Fixed a couple of bugs, added more shortcuts.
Updated help file and installer.

Version 1.2.0.1:

Added: It is now possible to add text or image watermark to the images.
Added ability to create web-safe filenames for the output files.
From Advanced page you can now set the pages header and footer (for example HTML code for a banner, or counter)
Added new Image and Thumbnail resize methods - Bilinear and Bicubic.
Move up, Move down, Remove in files list works with multiple items selected. Ctrl+A selects all files, DEL key removes selected.
Up to three times faster image and thumbnail preview.
Gallery pages count is now shown in the status bar (removed panel from gallery - general).
Image Preview, Resize Images, Add drop shadow check-boxes are embedded in the group box saving some GUI space.
Replaced the old navigation bar with new better looking one.
The Build page shows more information about the gallery build process
Updated help, now with screenshots from the application

Version 1.0.9.0:

Added: It is now possible to add drop shadow to the thumbnails - you can select the shadow size, horizontal and vertical offset.
Note: drop shadow works only if there is no background image selected.
Added: You can now choose the thumbnail 'Description text' (shown below the thumbnail) and thumbnail 'ALT text' (shown when you hover the mouse over the thumbnail) using the following predefined formats: image dimensions, image file name, image file size (bytes), image file size (KB), image file size (MB), image creation date, image creation date / time, or None .
Added: From Gallery -> Titles you can add web link to the text under the thumbnails table and images.
Removed 'Show file sizes' checkbox - the equivalent now is the 'Image File Size' item in the thumbnail ' Description text '.
Removed thumbnail 'Preview' checkbox - preview is now generated from the selected image in the files list box. So if there are no files added - the preview will not be shown.
You can change the page background color with a click on the thumbnail preview.
All text output is converted to its HTML equivalent, e.g. & to & < to &lt and so on...
Better table cells formatting - the thumbs are now shown in a nicer way.
Changed the position of previous and next links in the image web pages.
Bug Fix: Fixed some issues regarding saving and loading the project settings.
Removed the internal preview image and the installation size is about 100k smaller.
Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Version 1.0.3.0:

New project format. The project settings will be saved in XML format for future versions compatibility.
Added JPEG2000 support.
Added option to show/hide file sizes below the thumbnails.
Added some color templates in the general gallery options
Added file association icons in the file list box
Rearranged the previous page, next page and jump menu positions
Changed the default font family to Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Code cleanup, the installation is about 300kb smaller
Bug Fix: Some settings were not saved in the project. Fixed.
Bug Fix: The input image files with format different from JPG format weren't converted to JPG format. Now all output image files will be in JPG format.

Version 1.0.0.0:

First public release