Rapid Gallery Creator Free

A lot of pictures you take with a camera and even your mobile phone end up online on various social networks. Pictures are also used for galleries to better represent various services and products. If you also need to create a display of images on the web, applications like Rapid Gallery Creator Free want to make the whole process quick and easy.

With the main window up and running, accommodation takes little while because of a few aspects. One of them is the intuitive design, structured in different tabs to allow easy navigation and manipulation of output, image files, as well as general options. Another helpful feature is represented by abundant tooltips, found next to every input field so you don't get stuck along the way, although the field title is intuitive enough.

Output options mostly require you to specify different directories for resources the application generates. These are for the project itself, for images, HTML, as well as index and images for CSS and JavaScript file. However, you need to be careful when specifying path of every other element other than the general output directory only to mention the name of the new folder to crate, otherwise the entire folder structure is generated.

Moving to the image files tab is where you get to select items you want to include in your project. A built-in open dialog lets you pick the target folder, but no option to also include subdirectories. A list displays all file names and clicking on an entry brings up a small preview window. Several image related options can be configured, such as to limit image zoom, allow HTML in description, and different fields for title, various descriptions, and miscellaneous links.

You can go ahead and hit the “Create” button at any moment to generate the result. On the other hand, you can take your time and tweak more settings in the general tab. These refer to image positioning, size and alignment, JPEG quality, link types, various color specifications, and more.

Sadly, not a lot of variety is provided when it comes to visual design. For more options, you need some degree of programming knowledge when integrating the gallery in your web projects. A preview is put at your disposal in the default web browser, just to see if any adjustments or finishing touches need to be added.

To sum it up, Rapid Gallery Creator Free is a pretty straightforward application, even if it gives you the illusion of multiple configurations. You quickly get acquainted thanks to the simple design and helpful, rich tooltips, while the overall process requires little effort and delivers the result in no time at all.