chromatic-generator

Status: Working

A Python 3 command line tool to create beautiful static HTML photo galleries with the help of chromatic.js

chromatic-generator is ISC licensed and was created by Christian Studer (cstuder@existenz.ch, Bureau für digitale Existenz).

Source: https://github.com/cstuder/chromatic-generator

About chromatic.js

A JavaScript library created by Crispy Mountain which displays beautiful photo galleries. ISC licensed.

Source: https://github.com/crispymtn/chromatic.js (Copy included in this repository)

Hosted version: http://www.chromatic.io (No longer online)

Top level usage

1. Collect your images in a directory.
2. Use chromatic-generator.py to copy the images, create thumbnails and the gallery files.
3. Open the created index.html in a browser and see your image arranged and displayed in an awesomely beautiful kind of way.

Once created, there are no external dependencies to worry about: All required files (Both images and the gallery scripts itself) are located in the output directory.

Usage of the command line tool

python chromatic-generator.py [-h] [-f] [-tw THUMBWIDTH] [-th THUMBHEIGHT]
                          inputdir outputdir

positional arguments:
  inputdir              Source directory with the images
  outputdir             Target directory for the gallery files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f, --force           Overwrite files in target directory
  -tw THUMBWIDTH, --thumbwidth THUMBWIDTH
                        Maximum width of the thumbnails (Defaults to 600 pixels)
  -th THUMBHEIGHT, --thumbheight THUMBHEIGHT
                        Maximum height of the thumbnails (Defaults to 600 pixels)

Status of chromatic-generator

It is Good Enough for my purposes: Creating a gallery from a collection of JPEG files with known-to-be-correct EXIF information.

There will be no more development on my part. (Christian Studer, february 2016)

Possible improvements for the future

• Other sort orders
• Handling more image file types
• Better error handling
• Multiple galleries
• Prevention of name collisions