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

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)

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.

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)

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)

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