Instant Gallery Maker

Images are used in almost every activity that’s related to the PC, since they can represent textures, or even galleries of stuff you want to buy. In case you want to build your own catalog, specialized applications like Instant Gallery Maker come with the right means, an easy process, and various customization options.

The whole process is wizard-driven, and each step of the way is perfectly tweaked so you don’t feel overwhelmed, but have enough control over what’s going on. Needless to say that among the first steps is to add pictures, and this can easily be done by dragging them over the main window, with supported formats like GIF, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, DIB, RLE, ICO, CUR, PNG, WMF, EMF, TGA, VDA, ICB, PXM, PPM, PBM, and more.

When added, you can take some time to configure arrangement, orientation options, and title. Moving on is where you get to pick the theme. A decent amount of preset templates are at your disposal, but there’s no option to create your own. However, there are specific options like color and background that can be modified in the following steps.

The options panel is where you get to spend most of your time. Different configurations can be made, ranging from options to create an Autorun.inf file for media disks, adjust quality of pictures and thumbnails, choose indexing and page options, or add text and picture watermarks, to keep them safe.

Before having the gallery generated, there’s the possibility to choose whether or not to export thumbnails, full-size images, and HTML pages for each picture. It takes a little while to finish the job, and the application offers to open the new gallery in its own viewer so you can review your work.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Instant Gallery Maker is a practical application that can be used to bundle multiple pictures of different formats together, in a visually appealing web gallery. It may seem a little difficult to manage functions, since there’s no constant preview panel to show changes, but the result is sure to meet demands.