$\"Lychee's$ <\/a>
Lychee\u2019s graphical user-interface<\/p><\/div>\n
The interface supports context menus for renaming, deleting, etc. in the general views. On mobile platforms you have to do this tasks in the single image view.<\/p>\n
$\"User-interface$ <\/a>
User-interface with contextmenu-support<\/p><\/div>\n
Data in your hands<\/strong><\/p>\n
You store your images on your webspace or server and you have not rely on perhaps foreign services as Dropbox with different privacy laws.<\/p>\n
Mobile<\/strong><\/p>\n
The interface is responsive and fits to all screen sizes. You can use Lychee on a tablet or phone with taps and swipes.<\/p>\n
Sharing in social networks<\/strong><\/p>\n
You can share single images or whole albums at facebook, twitter or via e-Mail.<\/p>\n
$\"Share$ <\/a>
Share photos<\/p><\/div>\n
User-Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n
There two kinds of users. The administrators and the visitors.<\/p>\n
The admins can log-in with a password and can import, move, delete, mark, tag or organize images. Visitors can just watch, share or download (if allowed) images and photos.<\/p>\n
Photo-Management<\/strong><\/p>\n
You can organize images in albums. Unfortunately it is not possible to stack albums<\/p>\n
It is easy to make albums visible for visitors or mark as private just for your eyes. You can give visitor the permission for downloading and you can protect albums with a password. Only visitors who know the password can see the images of the appropriate album.<\/p>\n
$\"Albums$ <\/a>
Albums can be marked as visible for visitors, downloadable or password-protected<\/p><\/div>\n
A general password protection for all albums is not implemented.<\/p>\n
Smart Albums<\/strong><\/p>\n
Just for admins there are 4 smart albums available which fill-up with images automatically: UNSORTED: not organized in albums, STARRED: marked with a star, PUBLIC: public single images but not images of a public album, RECENT: last\u00a0 imported images.<\/p>\n
$\"Smart$ <\/a>
Smart Albums for admins<\/p><\/div>\n
Search function<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lychee has a text-based search-function implemented. Admins and visitors can search in titles, descriptions and tags.<\/p>\n
Starred<\/strong><\/p>\n
Only admins can mark images with a star but they cannot rate them with more than one star. This function is available in the overviews via context menu or in the single image view via button on the top of the screen.<\/p>\n
$\"Mark$ <\/a>
Mark images via context menu<\/p><\/div>\n
EXIF and IPTC<\/strong><\/p>\n
Both Metaformats can be displayed by admins and visitors. Admins can edit title, description and tags.<\/p>\n
Supported meta information:<\/p>\n
EXIF: Capture date, brand, type\/model, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, ISO<\/p>\n
IPTC: title, upload date, description, file size, format, resolution, tags<\/p>\n
Import<\/strong><\/p>\n
You have various possibilities to import images: You can upload photos from your local disc or import single images via arbitrary URL.<\/p>\n
$\"Import$ <\/a>
Import menu<\/p><\/div>\n
More interesting, you are able to import images from your Dropbox.<\/p>\n
But the most astonishing feature is to move images from any directory on your webspace to Lychee. That makes migration from another gallery easy. But you need to organizes the images in albums manually after.<\/p>\n
Export<\/strong><\/p>\n
Visitors and admins can download single images or whole albums (zip-archived).<\/p>\n
$\"Single$ <\/a>
Single image download<\/p><\/div>\n
Furthermore single photos or images can be uploaded to your Dropbox. This can be done by visitors and admins.<\/p>\n
$\"Export$ <\/a>
Export to Dropbox<\/p><\/div>\n
Open-Source and free<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lychee is open-source and is provided under the free MIT-license<\/a>. Free means here freedom and free of charge.<\/p>\n
Cons<\/h2>\n
Not multilingual<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lychee 2.7 is available in English language only.<\/p>\n
No manual order<\/strong><\/p>\n
It is not possible to change the order of the images manually.\u00a0 But an automatic order by upload- oder capture date, title, description, public image, starred image or image format can be performed.<\/p>\n
No batch jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n
Unfortunately you cannot move, delete, tag more than one image at a time. You have to do it image by image. A big disadvantage.<\/p>\n
Visitors cannot mark photos with a star to download starred images together. They have to download image by image or the whole album.<\/p>\n
Description and meta information cannot displayed permanently<\/strong><\/p>\n
To display meta information you have to tap or click the info button in the single image view. After a image changed the info disappears.<\/p>\n
Embedded tags will not imported<\/strong><\/p>\n
Tags embedded in the image file will not imported, title and description will.<\/p>\n
Only web-upload<\/strong><\/p>\n
It is not possible to upload images via FTP.<\/p>\n
As a workaround you can upload the images in an arbitrary folder on your webspace and use the \u201cImport from Server\u201d function to move the images to Lychee.<\/p>\n
No skins<\/strong><\/p>\n
You cannot change the view of Lychee to personalize it. Of course you can edit the CSS files of Lychee.<\/p>\n
No GPS support<\/strong><\/p>\n
Photos with GPS information cannot displayed on a map<\/p>\n
Most missing features<\/h2>\n\n
No manual order of images<\/li>\n
No batch jobs to organize or delete images<\/li>\n
Visitors cannot mark images for a later common download.<\/li>\n
Embedded IPTC-Tags will not be imported<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
Lychee is a very stable-running, very well-designed web applications for a simple image management. JPEG, PNG and GIF files are supported. You need a local or hosted webserver with PHP and MySQL.<\/p>\n
Lychee runs in a normal web browsers and is therefore platform-independend. It runs very well on mobile devices as tablets and smart phones as well as on desktop and notebook computers.<\/p>\n
It has nice unique features as Dropbox im- and export and web server import.<\/p>\n
Lychee is open-source and stands under the free MIT-license.<\/p>\n
You can compare Lychee with photo organizing tools on tablets and smart phones. Furthermore it has similar features as Dropbox\u2019s picture folder.<\/p>\n
In my opinion Lychee is well-suited\u00a0 for providing images and photos on the web for viewing and downloading to friends. For presentation purposes I miss the manual order feature.<\/p>\n
Electerious provides a live demo of Lychee on their Homepage.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Most missing features<\/h2>\n\nNo manual order of images<\/li>\nNo batch jobs to organize or delete images<\/li>\nVisitors cannot mark images for a later common download.<\/li>\n