Overview
The advanced settings sheet lets you fine tune your gallery for optimal file sizes/image quality. You can also specify copyright
Configuring advanced settings
The advanced settings sheet is accessible from InstantGallery's toolbar when a gallery is open and at all times from the File menu.
Shows you the effects of the chosen image quality setting on different kinds of pictures. Look out for compression artifacts at lower quality settings, especially if the images in your gallery contain text or line art.
Change the image quality setting to set an acceptable balance between file sizes and image quality. Keep an eye on the image preview to see the effects of different quality settings. Lower quality settings produce slightly blurry images with artifacts, however the images will be smaller and process more quickly. Higher quality settings will produce sharper images with few if any visible artifacts but will result in large file sizes and longer processing times. You can check the size of your web gallery in the status bar of the gallery preview window.
Sets the maximum horizontal and vertical dimensions of images in your gallery. You can choose one of the specified sizes or have InstantGallery keep images at their original sizes. Using larger image sizes can substantially increase the file sizes of your gallery's images.
Use the message field to specify a message that can be watermarked into each image or webpage in your gallery.
Choose the spots on your images where the watermark should appear. You can select any combination of the checkboxes.
The font to use for the watermark message.
The size of the font to use for the watermark. It's possible to create some cool effects by using symbols at large sizes such as the copyright symbol (©).
Opens a color picker that lets you select the watermark font color and opacity. White is generally the best color to choose for watermarking photographs. Choose a darker color when watermarking scanned text and line art. Lowering the transparency makes the text partially see-through so the detail behind isn't entirely obscured.
When this option is selected a soft black shadow is drawn behind the watermark text. Shadows work best when the watermark is fully opaque (see Font color).
Places the copyright message at the bottom of each page.
Use the plus and minus buttons to add and remove additional text links to the navigation bar in your gallery. After clicking add you can edit the text in the table. Double click either the link title or link URL to make changes again afterwards.
You may use these two fields to specify additional HTML to be inserted above and below each page in your gallery. This can be useful for integrating your gallery with an existing website's look and feel by adding site-wide navigation, logos and so on. We recommend using an external HTML editor or text editor and pasting the HTML in rather than editing directly in InstantGallery when dealing with substantial amounts of code.