A slide show display accessible to anyone?

[williamwright]

I want to start a gallery (or album?) of photographs that anyone could see via the internet. Ideally the pictures would come up full screen and progress through the sequence by pressing the left/right arrow keys or by clicking on an on-screen arrow. Each picture would be accompanied by a caption.

Only I would be able to load the pictures but anyone with the correct url or whatever would be able to see them.

This is for the village Facebook group, which over the years has had some smashing photographs of local scenes. We seem to have a few keen photographers in the group, and also some people who aren't keep photographers but just happen to take an interesting picture now and then.

The Facebook gallery thing isn't much use. I was wondering what else there is. Ideas anyone?

Bill

[Mark Carver]

Google's Picasa used to offer just that, then they ruined the feature when they re-branded the ap as Google Photos, but it's probably still an available feature ?

[Tweed]

Try Flickr

[198kHz]

A Dropbox free account will do what you want, and more. Storage is 2GB, so say, 4000 images at an average of 500kB - ample for screen viewing.

[williamwright]

I don't see a way to open a file of photographs in Dropbox and get Dropbox to display each one full screen as a sequence, each with a caption.

Bill

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

I don't know I've been asking our council as their home page has a slide show that runs when loaded but can be paused, but the problem is that it interrupts my screenreader every time it changes with no useful info, like a description of the picture. It is not rocket science to add an alt tag to a picture to describe it for the blind yet I see so many sites where its not done, still.

I'm sure there is software out there, but maybe in the end it might be more useful if the program was off line and one simply downloaded e show complete with audible captions like you often find in museums etc. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

No I looked at that as well, they are not very good at explain some of their played for services. I cannot help but wonder if they did a better job informing people about their services, if they might get more paying subscribers. For what I'd get out of the upgrade its just not any incentive. Brian

[John Rumm]

Google photos, or dropbox, or onedrive will allow similar.

If you want a bit more control then google slides (part of google docs/drive) will in effect give you powerpoint style presentation graphics on the web. So you can caption or label photos, have them auto advance or click to advance, and also use transitions between slides.

[Java Jive]

I wrote something like that in JavaScript many years ago. I've just updated the documentation for it with improvements that I wrote between then and now which I have been using privately for various purposes, but hadn't bothered to publish. I'm not sure that it's quite what you want, because you can't go backwards, but for whatever use or not it is to you, it's here:

(Click the first green sub-section entitled 'Slide Show')

[Martin Brown]

If you can get to grips with it irfanview will let you create html to produce a contact sheet and master images which could be subverted to do next and previous. I can't recall it that is already an option.

[Another John]

Google Albums fits that bill, Bill, Shirley?

I've used it a few times to make "family albums" -- it will make a unique URL for you, and only people who know that can see it. Or maybe you can make it public to all -- I've never looked for that option. Google is generally Good (in more senses than one), and also intuitive: if something is a sensible thing to be able to do, then you will be able find the way to do it, iyswim.

John