As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

I receive questions on a fairly regular basis from users misunderstanding or misinterpreting my terms of use for TTG web engines. To reduce the chances of misinterpretation, I am rewriting the terms of use to (hopefully) be more clear and more complete. Im looking for feedback here. Please have a look at my draft of [...]

Develop presets can save you a lot of time processing images in Lightroom. Seim Effects Power Workflow 2.5 is a popular and comprehensive collection of presets including exposure and color corrections, and special effects like cross-processing, black and white, vintage effects and more. A recent sponsor on The Turning Gate, Seim Effects is offering a [...]

TTG Pages creates a Home page, About page, Contact page and Gallery Index. But what if thats not enough? What if you need additional pages for pricing info, press statements or psychobabble?! In this tutorial, I show you how to leverage TTG Pages to create extra pages for your TTG-made website.

Fotomoto today announced the availability of new image licensing and download features on their blog. The announcement has been a long time coming, and I am confident Fotomoto users are going to love these new features. Since the company got started last year, The Turning Gate has been working together with Fotomoto to bring their [...]

TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 2.0, codenamed Hellcat for internal purposes, is nearly ready for wider testing. Theres more coding to be done and a few lingering bugs I need to squash, but I have begun field testing locally generated galleries on the web. I will be adding, removing and replacing test galleries here as necessary; [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Took some respite today from intense projects-in-progress, and channeled my energies to inject new awesomeness into TTG Stage. Adopting some magic from TTG Viewport Sizer and with some advice from my Jedi friend, TTG Stage has received a new, super cool liquid layout mode.Some small sacrifice is required when using the liquid stage. Your gallery [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

By now, everyone should be aware of the tragedy that has befallen Haiti. My alma mater, Hallmark Institute of Photography, today announced a fundraising campaign to help those in Haiti that have been devastated by the recent earthquake. This is a Premier Education Group (PEG) organization-wide campaign that allows all staff, faculty, students, families [...]

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.3 are now available. In the Pro version, this update adds support for prices including cents. Both versions benefit from the new Google Analytics implementation, and custom script and CSS options recently introduced in TTG Pages 3.4. See the TTG Pages 3.4 feature overview for instructions on [...]

Apple yesterday unveiled the latest version of its iPod Touch device. Strangely, all press materials relating to the announced device suffer a severe typo, the o in iPod having mistakenly been replaced with an a. How this made it past Apples stringent QA team I fail to understand Pursuant to queries as to whether [...]

As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.4 are now available. This update addresses a critical bug in 1.9.3 that caused the engine to become unresponsive for some LR2/Win users. In the Pro version, sales tax support has also been added to the transactionless shopping cart, configurable from within the config.php file.To update existing [...]

As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

Michael Gray has written a good review of TTG Pages for LifeInDigitalFilm. Of the engine, Gray writes, Overall, I found TTG Pages to be a well-rounded piece of software. It is fast, simple and creates a fine website. Read the full review.Gray has previously written a review of TTG Highslide Gallery Pro.

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

Photographers often have need to password protect galleries of images, whether providing clients with a layer of security or for other reasons. In a previous article, I proposed using a password protection script from Zubrag.com as one possible solution. Another solution was recently brought to my attention by TTG user Steen Brogaard. After testing the [...]

TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

The Fotomoto service allows users to sell prints directly from their websites, and has been garnering rave reviews. With Fotomoto support built into TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, many TTG users have been raving about it too. Fotomoto is unique in giving photographers the ability to sell prints from their own sites, rather than forcing them [...]

TTG HTML Gallery 2.0 is now available, marking the first update to this product in nearly two years. The update is less an update, more an overhaul. The page layout and default menu settings have been revamped to integrate seamlessly with TTG Pages. The gallery now supports pagination of the thumbnail grid, complete with page [...]

Its been more than a year since I published my first article on file name conventions. The problem with the blog format is that important articles are often buried in time. And the problem with time is that it often changes our perspective on things. The purpose of this article is to once more bring [...]

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.2 are now available. I hadnt meant to make another release so quickly on the heels of the 1.9.1 update, but bugs happen. This update fixes a critical bug affecting Menu Item 2 in version 1.9.1. It also redresses Cooliris captioning.For those not wishing to spend a [...]

There are more than 20 different web engines available here at The Turning Gate. More often than not, its the paid engines that receive the bulk of the attention. After all, they keep this place going and provide me the most motivation to work on them. Many of the engines here are available as free [...]

The Turning Gate gets a brief shout-out in David duChemins Vision Mongers, published in November. According to the product description, For those who want to make the transition into the world of vocational photographystaying true to your craft and vision, while fusing that craft with commerce, VisionMongers is a great place to begin your journey. [...]

The TTG Highslide Gallery Pro Video Instruction Manual has launched! I have begun uploading videos to my YouTube channel. The videos can be accessed from the About & Help menu > Video Manual: TTG Highslide Pro. You may watch the videos on that page, or click through to YouTube to watch them in a larger [...]

The TTG Highslide Gallery Pro Video Instruction Manual has launched! I have begun uploading videos to my YouTube channel. The videos can be accessed from the About & Help menu > Video Manual: TTG Highslide Pro. You may watch the videos on that page, or click through to YouTube to watch them in a larger [...]

The TTG Highslide Gallery Pro Video Instruction Manual has launched! I have begun uploading videos to my YouTube channel. The videos can be accessed from the About & Help menu > Video Manual: TTG Highslide Pro. You may watch the videos on that page, or click through to YouTube to watch them in a larger [...]

My experiments in providing a better user experience here on the website continue. Ive made a few changes to the way comments are handled. Specifically, I have enabled threaded comments and have setup a comment subscription system. You may opt to subscribe to comments from the comment entry form; to thread comments, simply use the [...]

TTG Shadowbox Gallery 3.2 is now available, with the following updates:v3.2 ( 2009-12-23 )By request, increased maximum large-size image dimensions to 15,000. Bear in mind, however, that Lightrooms web export will not upscale images, making native dimensions the maximum for any particular image.Updated Shadowbox JS to version 3.0rc1.

Happy New Year!! Thank you to all for making 2009 a great year for TTG. Without your support and motivation, this website and these products would be nothing. Many great returns and best wishes to all for a spectacular 2010.

New versions of TTG XML Maker are now available. The tool has been totally overhauled and now includes instructions for use within the Lightroom web preview area, centralized controls and a nicer presentation. There are two versions, one for LR2 and one for LR3; the watermarking controller is the only difference between the two.TTG XML [...]

One year ago today, TTG iPhone Portfolio was released. Today, I release version 1.2, the first update to this gallery in nearly a year. This is mostly a maintenance release, though much more stable than the previous version. The user-interface is updated, the Highslide script has been updated to the latest version, and Ive made [...]

TTG Viewport Sizer is a measurement tool that allows you to determine the exact dimensions of Lightroom’s web preview viewport, a boon when designing Flash galleries and needing to know what a gallery is going to look like at its final size.

TTG Pages 3.3 is now available. This should mostly be considered a maintenance release, though it does add some new controls. Existing subscribers running 3.2 might save a download by skipping this one, unless something in the changes catches your fancy.

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro have been updated to version 1.9.1. In the Pro version, improvements have been made and some debugging options added to the new proprietary shopping cart. Changes to both versions include new permalink options for images, new styling options, larger maximum image sizes, bug fixes and UI adjustments.

This tutorial provides a detailed explanation on how to setup the new transactionless shopping cart in TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.1. It also explains how to enable and utilize the cart's debugging options.

The site redesign is just about finished. There may be some tweaks made here or there, and I still have a few things left to do, but there should be no further disruptions or weirdness to usual service. I hope you all like the new design as much as I do. I think it presents [...]

TTG Pages 3.3 is now available. This should mostly be considered a maintenance release, though it does add some new controls. Existing subscribers running 3.2 might save a download by skipping this one, unless something in the changes catches your fancy.v3.3 ( 2010-01-02 )Now creates a simple redirect script in your /galleries/ folder so that [...]

New versions of TTG XML Maker are now available. The tool has been totally overhauled and now includes instructions for use within the Lightroom web preview area, centralized controls and a nicer presentation. There are two versions, one for LR2 and one for LR3; the watermarking controller is the only difference between the two.TTG XML [...]

One year ago today, TTG iPhone Portfolio was released. Today, I release version 1.2, the first update to this gallery in nearly a year. This is mostly a maintenance release, though much more stable than the previous version. The user-interface is updated, the Highslide script has been updated to the latest version, and Ive made [...]

So, I had an idea for a new tool this afternoon. I roughed out a new web engine and mocked up some crummy Javascript, a combination of found code and some hacking of my own. It sort of worked, but I wasnt happy and so I sent it to Ben. Ben is the same good [...]

Happy New Year!! Thank you to all for making 2009 a great year for TTG. Without your support and motivation, this website and these products would be nothing. Many great returns and best wishes to all for a spectacular 2010.

Im still tinkering with the site design. A few elements are broken, though nothing show-stopping. Press on using the site, and Ill try to have things put in order as soon as I can. The product pages, tutorials and other resources remain fully accessible and functional.Thanks for your understanding.

My experiments in providing a better user experience here on the website continue. Ive made a few changes to the way comments are handled. Specifically, I have enabled threaded comments and have setup a comment subscription system. You may opt to subscribe to comments from the comment entry form; to thread comments, simply use the [...]

TTG Shadowbox Gallery 3.2 is now available, with the following updates:v3.2 ( 2009-12-23 )By request, increased maximum large-size image dimensions to 15,000. Bear in mind, however, that Lightrooms web export will not upscale images, making native dimensions the maximum for any particular image.Updated Shadowbox JS to version 3.0rc1.

Im toying with a new template for the site. Let me know what you think. Also, if you find anything that seems wonky or wrong, let me know so that I can get it fixed.

The TTG Highslide Gallery Pro Video Instruction Manual has launched! I have begun uploading videos to my YouTube channel. The videos can be accessed from the About & Help menu > Video Manual: TTG Highslide Pro. You may watch the videos on that page, or click through to YouTube to watch them in a larger [...]

The Photo Geek has released an update to its TTG Client Script (originally for use with TTG Client Response Gallery), adding support for TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and TTG Highslide Gallery. The script allows you to easily convert selection gallery email messages into Smart Collections that can be loaded into Lightroom. For more information and [...]

Fotomoto just gets better and better.Fotomoto announced today on their blog that they now support Visa, Mastercard and Discover as payment options for orders. Previously, transactions were handled through PayPal, but the service now fully supports card transactions. Say goodbye to PayPal fees! For more information, see the Fotomoto blog, and to get your Fotomoto [...]

Airtight Interactive today released Simpleviewer 2.0.1, a bug fix to the recently released version 2 of their popular Simpleviewer gallery. TTG Simpleviewer-2 has been updated to include the latest version of the Simpleviewer SWF, and is available as a free download to all.

The Turning Gate gets a shout out in the new January/February issue of Photoshop User Magazine, the official magazine of National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP).In his article, Making Money with Lightroom, Part 1: SEO for Lightroom Web Galleries, writer Rob Sylvan declares TTG Highslide Gallery Pro his current favorite third-party gallery for Lightroom. Check [...]

TTG Pages 3.2 is now available. This update adds support for the embedding of Simpleviewer-2 galleries into the Home and About pages, improves server compatibility for the gallery index PHP script, and adds a favicon to your pages.TTG Pages 3.2 is a free update to existing subscribers, and is available for $25 to new, unsubscribed [...]

TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9 are now available. The 1.9 update is pretty heft, and so this article is a combination update announcement and tutorial, meant to illuminate the new features in the update, mostly to the Pro version of the gallery. Amongst these features are highly requested features such as [...]

TTG Stage 2.1 is now available. This update adds support for galleries using the new Simpleviewer-2. It also introduces font-stack presets, font-weight customization for Gallery Description titles, updated in-engine instructions and other tweaks and fixes. TTG Stage 2.1 is a free update to existing subscribers, and is available for $5 to new unsubscribed users.TTG Stage [...]

TTG Simpleviewer-2 is now available as a free download. TTG Simpleviewer-2 brings Airtight Interactives new Simpleviewer v2 to the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Web module. Simpleviewer 2 improves upon the original with three gallery styles (modern, compact and classic), direct Flickr integration, a fullscreen mode, larger thumbnails, automatic language support, and benefits from having been written [...]

Here’s an item I found in the Adobe Lightroom 2 Community Help wiki today, that thought would be of interest to users. I’ve long known you could save web gallery settings in a collection of images, but had not previously run across the term “output creation” in reference to it. For anyone utilizing the Web [...]

Fotomoto has been generating some buzz recently. The Fotomoto Blog has been updated with some of the textbites and links to the articles, and Fotomoto user Richard Vanek has written a detailed review of Fotomoto’s print and package quality. For anyone that’s been on the fence as to whether to implement the Fotomoto features in [...]

I am back in “the office” and now catching up with languishing comments and emails. Thank you all for your patience. I was able to address some queries while I was away, but not all. And I’ve done a little bit of work on the next Highslide update, but there’s more yet to be done. [...]

Previously, I offered up a tutorial on customizing the TTG header, addressing the Site Info pane of controls common to many TTG web engines. In that video, I used TTG Highslide Gallery Pro as respresentative for all engines containing the TTG header.This latest episode is mostly specific to TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery [...]

Windows Safe-Mode is a troubleshooting feature now found in TTG Highslide Gallery, TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and TTG Shadowbox Gallery. It remedies an issue experienced by only a minority of Lightroom for Windows users. This video explains the issue, and demonstrates how the Windows Safe-Mode feature allows you to work around it. Video runtime is [...]