January 14, 2009
Gallery Viewing Options
The Gallery albums you publish to the web provide all visitors with a set of controls across the bottom that they can use to change the way they view the photos. The ones on the left let them switch among grid (the default), mosaic (the currently selected photo appears enlarged to the left with the rest in a grid to the right), carousel (to flip quickly through the photos one by one), and slideshow (just click, sit back, and watch). The controls on the right change the background color and, for grid and mosaic, the image size.
Clicking a photo within a view zooms in on just that photo and provides arrows for navigating through the album one photo at a time. And if you've enabled downloading for an album, clicking the Download icon below the image will allow your viewers to download just that photo. The Download icon in the toolbar at the top allows visitors to download all the photos in the album. Finally, on an iPhone or iPod touch you (or a friend) can launch Safari and view Gallery albums in grid or slideshow then and there, right off the cloud and into your hand.
