Comments on: New Flash Gallery – feedback please

By: David R

David R — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:22:12 +0000

Suggestions:
1. I agree with the scaling, it's too slow. Speed it up a bit (i'm impatient)

When browsing through the photos (like I clicked on a thumbnail, now viewing full image:
1. I don't like waiting for the viewer to resize when the image shape changes
2. Don't make the previous image disappear until the next one is ready, looking at a flat grey square doesn't look as nice. Maybe do an alpha fade from one image to the next (but short, 1 second maybe)
3. Preload the next image while I am viewing an image, so when I hit 'next' the new one pops up instantly without me waiting.

Overall, try to keep the interface simple, with few effects (sliding, scaling, etc are generally annoying unless they are very fast and not too noticable)

Good work! I look forward to a release.

By: Daniel Hai

Daniel Hai — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:51:20 +0000

Looks good, nice work.

Only thing that got me is that it looks like a lot of the images are being scaled down, which creates artifacting (makes the images looks blocky).

For those slow pesky machines, maybe turn quality to low when scaling, and then back to high quality when the image is being displayed. Then back to low when an animation is being done.

Try this: http://www.kaourantin.net

By: Alan Musselman

Alan Musselman — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:26:29 +0000

Yeah and another thing I would do is tint the background 70% black so the image stands out above the background. Good job though…you should tie it into the Fireworks Album Creator 1.0

http://www.fireworksguru.com/fwalbumcreator

By: user

user — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:58:19 +0000

I liked everything except:
The tweened rescaling of the full size window. (too heavy for my old 1ghz cpu)
And the navigation in the full size image should be disabled when you’re at the start or end of the category (some sort of indicator would also be nice..like “image 1 of 2″)