Gallery / Album

Every year or so I stare into space with the same question circling inside my head:  Isn’t there an easier way to organize the photos?!  Gallery, the program I’m currently using works pretty well, but I am starting to find it clunky.  My collection of photos keeps getting bigger and the whole thing is starting to feel like a mess.  Album is really nice and I’ve used it in the past.  But I switched back to gallery for two reasons.  1.  Gallery has a thing it calls “links” which allow you to have a photo that belongs to two albums, without duplicating the photo.  For example, every picture of jonah is supposed to be filed in the chronological folder of its birth, AND linked in the “baby” folder as well.  Most people who look at my photos want to look at the baby, and not at every ridiculous thing I thought I should point my camera at in February.  The second reason for Gallery – it looks better.  I know Album is supposed to be oh-so-flexible, and that if I think it doesn’t look nice I should write a theme of my own, but I’m not willing to sit down and learn how.  Until today, I figured gallery was good enough for my needs.

But once again I’m reexamining my needs in this department…  And hoping that one day soon someone will write the perfect online photo album.

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