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Zenphoto has announced in December 2008 the release of its new version 1.2.2. For those who don’t know what Zenphoto is, I’ll say that its is probably the best tool to manage online photo gallery. So, when you need image hosting always ask whether Zenphoto is included in the software service package. The new Zenphoto has all the features users know from the previous versions - flash component, elegant author’s design, smart usability, multiple image folders, gallery parameters configuration via XML, slide show mode and sound effects. The 1.2.2 offers some major improvement and enhancements.

You can find below a list of improvements of Zenphoto (as they are listed in Zenphoto website):

Utilities:

• Backup/restore–backup & restore of Zenphoto database
• Schedule content–control when objects are published

Plugins:

• Admin toolbox that provides the ability to add user defined links
• Class-textobject – “Plugin” custom image handler. Extend the kinds of data formats zenphoto can process
• Register_user – allow site visitors to apply for a user ID
• Viewer_sized_images – allow site visitors to select the size image to view

Enhancements:

• Search for EXIF field items
• Select which EXIF fields are shown
• ‘AND’, ‘OR’, and ‘NOT’ are now useable in searches
• Arbitrary cropping and crop user interface
• Select fields to search at time of search
• EXIF data now shown with the image on the admin/edit page
• Automatic EXIF image rotation
• TinyMCE editing of backend textareas
• Backend performance improvements
• Internal charset encoding improvements
• Hitcounter now enabled by default

All the above features make Zenphoto great software application to create and manage an online photo album. It takes 20 minutes to be installed. All we need to do is to download the Zenphoto, to extract the files, to create MySQL database and to upload the files through FTP on your server. Than just visit the home page, finish the set up and you can start uploading and sharing your images.

Zenphoto image gallery can be used with 2 of the budget hosting services of Host Color - Photo blog Hosting plan and Custom Blog Hosting. With Zenphoto you will enjoy your online photo album. It will be the same with your visitors.