I am relatively new to Joomla, having taken over a site that somebody else created. I'd been using Zoom Media Gallery until a few days ago when the main gallery page developed an error that I couldn't fix. After getting no response from the developers and at their forum, I gave up and looked for something else.



After researching the many gallery components available for Joomla, I decided on RSgallery because it had the features I was looking for and had many positive reviews.



I just installed it this morning and am still working on creating my new galleries, but WOW. This is so much better than Zoom - I am really pleased. The interface is much easier to work with and it just looks so much nicer than Zoom (and I haven't even touched the CSS yet...really only a few tweaks here and there) I love the option of having different templates and I tried them all, but it seems the default tables template will work best for my site anyway.



I highly recommend this component for anyone needing a basic, clean image gallery. As someone noted on another comment, be sure to go to the config panel before you start uploading images. I also changed my thumbnail size to 100 (from the default 80 - too small, I think) and full size to 500 - I'm not sure how changing those numbers after uploading images would work, so do it first.



You get an excellent rating. Thanks!

Component installs and runs good on Joomla 1.13, but has no real file management. It dumps all image uploads in common folders. Should make individual image folders for each user (named with username or userid or something), so when a user un-registers, images may be easily deleted by deleting one single folder. With the current setup you would have lots of image residue after a user deletes their account and does not delete their images manually. You would have no way of knowing which images are actually still valid unless you had individual user image folders to upload to.

I've been looking for an image component for my site. So far this is the best one. Even though it took me a while to figure it out. But after everything was installed, it's been working great!



The steps are: install RSGallery2, install com_joomlalib and then install RS2gallery bridge component.

After that, configure it and add a component menu item to your site. It took me a whole day to find these steps...:-(

Overall, I recommend it!

But I wish there is an easier way to upload pics to the gallery. Or perhaps an option to move the images from other folders.

I have mixed feelings about this component. One one hand, creating galleries and uploading images is easy-to-do, and supplemented by the ability to do batch (zipped multiple image) uploads.



On the other hand, my RSGallery versions never seemed to align well in the general category display, and better inline documentation for the numerous display options would have been helpful.



There's also the question of display. Some of the newer Joomla Extensions allow for a nice automatic display of all images in a folder, in a content item - eliminating the need for file-uploading, labelling, etc.



However, if your goal is to have more interactivity (comments, ratings and other features) RSGallery2 accomplishes this well.



Pretty good component - just make sure you are using the right one.

Absolutely outstanding. I was looking for a gallery component that my 14 year old son could use on his site. It needed to have an easy interface to add collections of pictures and then a simple way of displaying them in an organised format (Prom night, First day at new school, Latest show, etc). This excels in both.



There is a bulk upload facility that none of the others have. When uploading a single pic you can set all the information you like including captions and descriptions.



Displaying your galleries is as easy as putting a menu link to the component - nothing else needed even for adding new galleries which is perfect for a 14 year old. No fiddling about with content pages and mosimages



The control panel for this component is outstanding and as straight forward and easy to understand as the Joomla control panel.



It will even watermark your pictures with a copyright notice of your choice!



For those with big sites with many users you can limit the number of galleries and the number of photos each user can have.



Although I usually avoid Alpha products like the plague I am really glad I haven't done so this time.



An excellent rating doesn't even come close to describing how good this component is.

This component really is very nice and usefull, however I was wonder if it was possible to allow comments on images, only for registered users.

there's not much more that needs to be said. I had no problems uploading, configuring and getting it to look good on my site.



perfect for the smaller to mid-size sites or joomla/website newbies like myself. I spent all day trying to configure the myriad other galleries available. Wished I hadn't.

I really like this gallery. I was looking for something easy to install and manage and that looks good. This is it. I use Gallery2 in other pages, but I just couldn't get the G2 Bridge and other viewers to work well in Joomla. I did RSGallery2 to work fast and easy.



Thanks!

Chris

You could call this easiest gallery, very simple to install and very good support in the forums.



Yes I did have some problems, due a fixed Joomla template, where photographs were displayed all over the browser window. But the support forum came up trumps, and it now works brilliantly. I am very pleased with how the gallery works.



I also had the uploading problems shown in other reviews with earlier versions of RSGallery2.



In the versions I am using, 1.12.2 and 1.13.1, seem very fast, and I have not come across any bugs or other problems yet.



No problems uploading or displaying, very, very happy indeed.

I am just setting up a new site and was going through the usual looking for the right components, etc. After spending most of the day trying out various gallery addons, I decided to try RSgallery2. Wow. Fast and easy to set up. Very nice to look at. The download option is a nice touch too. I'm just sorry that I didn't try this one earlier. The component says alpha, but it works better than most other "stable" packages that I tried. I highly recommend this. Just one quick note, though, be sure to choose the thumbnail size that you want BEFORE you set up your galleries. The default is 80 which I find a little small.