Ansel Photo Manager

Ansel is the Horde photo management application. It makes use of the Horde framework and integrates with other Horde applications. Ansel is nearing 1.0 quality, but is not yet officially released software. It can be obtained by downloading a CVS snapshot , or by checking it out from anonymous CVS.

Image View
Ansel is a full featured photo management application. With it, you can create any number of galleries and subgalleries, share galleries among other Horde users or even make them public. You can upload images either one at a time, as a zip archive, or even upload them via Windows XP's "Publish to Web" functionality. Once in Ansel, you can browse your images, download originals, view galleries as a slideshow, add comments to images, send an 'ecard' to a friend, and more. Ansel will read and store EXIF data associated with uploaded images and can even auto rotate your images to the proper position if the image contains the proper EXIF properties.

Polaroid Style Gallery View

Ansel supports photo and gallery tagging - allowing you to browse your photos by tags just like you were browsing a directory. Mutlitple types of RSS feeds are also available from Ansel, including most recently added images for a particular user, gallery or tag.

Ansel provides mulitple gallery themes. You can create thumbnails that have rounded corners with shadows, sharp corners with shadows, or even make your thumbnails look like Polaroids!

For developers, Ansel also offers an external api that may be accessed via Horde's RPC server or directly through the Horde Registry.