If you can, do it, please.
I understand that I can upload images in IMG folder, but I don’t understand where I have to past direct link to photos.
Google Drive, or photo, doesn’t provide a direct link by itself, but there some extension that will do it for you
I have spent some minutes searching for that at the beginning, and then immediately gave up the idea… too complex.
The scheme I’m using right now is very simple:
for each image, I upload two versions, one with a -web suffix that is in high resolution and one with a -thumb suffix which is 400px in size and is used for thumbnails
the web gallery is provided by the gh-pages branch of a second repository, called “photorama” (but you can call it differently if you like). This is a fork of the original photorama repository from sunbliss
The big advantage is that I do not rely on any fancy image storage provider, and I have full control of where the pictures go.
Moreover, I can add pictures in my local copy of the “photostore” repository even if I am offline, and modify the local copy of the web gallery to include the new images.
As soon as I have some internet connection, I can push the changes to github and the new images will be automatically online.
Here they say that, even if you have unlimited space, repository should be under 1gb for reasons.
Sure they are still a lot of web compliant photo, but …
I know about the size limitation, however I plan to keep the image size well below 1MB, and I will never have 1000 or more good images to put in my gallery
Not really. The static web page for each gallery has a preamble with the list of images to be shown and their corresponding path in the “photostore” repository, like this:
If you have a github account, just fork my photorama repository and the gallery will become automatically accessible as
https://yourusername.github.io/photorama
Then you will need to replace aferrero2707 with your username in _config.yml, and create a second repository for your pictures (unless you want to store then directly in the photorama repository, which is also possible).
Because if anyone wants to fork my photorama repository, then he/she will not import all the pictures as well… apart from that, it doesn’t really matter
Howdy all, I wanted to add a post to this old thread, as I’ve recently come across a great github pages friendly jekyll template for a simple, yet elegant photo portfolio by Ram Petra: https://github.com/ramswaroop/photography.
For me, this template is great because you don’t have to add any markdown code to add new images; you simply add them to the images directory, run the gulp script to resize some thumbs and arrange, and then it works out the tiled arrangement based on the alphabetical order of the image names (no spaces in names, I found out the hard way!). You can add some contact info and bio in the yaml, and you are good to go. Great for someone lazy, like me!