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Pixaria Support Extensions Now Available

In anticipation of the July 1st launch of support and upgrade extensions for Pixaria Gallery, I have now updated the Pixaria store and support pages with details of two new support and upgrade extension products.

For all Pixaria Gallery users who purchased over one year ago from the first of July, continued technical support will only be available once a license extension has been purchased for $99. Free upgrades up to but not including version 3.0 will still be available on request but will be unsupported without a support extension.

Purchasing an upgrade extension will entitle you to:

1. Free updates for one year from the date of purchase.
2. Technical support for one year from the date of purchase.
3. A free upgrade to Pixaria Gallery 3.0 when it is released.

By popular demand, I am also adding a new, professional level technical support and upgrade package which includes:

1. Installation of up to 20 updates per year.
2. Priority technical support.

This premium package is priced at $399 per year and represents a 50% saving on the standard cost of ad-hoc upgrade installations.

To go with this package, there is also a new Pixaria Gallery Pro license which includes the same support and upgrade install benefits and is priced at $649.

Details of all the packages can be found on the support page here.

Two New Showcase Websites

As many people will know, I have included a showcase of interesting Pixaria websites here on the website for some years now and I'm pleased to report that I've just added two new sites to the list.

The first, Spectrum Textures, is a free, online resource providing high-quality textures, and abstract images for use in creative projects. Built around the latest version of Pixaria, the implementation was customised here at Pixaria on behalf of the site owner to include site wide support for Google AdSense and a custom front page with Amazon advertising panels.

Next up is the website of professional wedding photographer Sam Chinigo who's new client facing website is powered by Pixaria Gallery. Sam is a widely respected, award winning photographer based in Connecticut, USA and chose Pixaria to provide his wedding clients with an easy way to view and purchase images online.

If you're interested in taking part in the Pixaria Gallery showcase, please let me know by sending an e-mail to info@pixaria.com incuding a link to your site and brief details of what your business is about.

Pixaria Bootleg Problems

Since putting the price of Pixaria up a few weeks ago, I've noticed a distinct increase in the number of bootleg Pixaria installations that have been popping up online. The most commonly installed, unlicensed version of Pixaria Gallery is version 2.3.4 which was released into the wild by a user making a fraudulent purchase in July 2008. By chance, I'm able to find this out because in that release, due to a bug, an e-mail notification was sent to me whenever anyone logged in to a new installation of this version.

There are many reasons why someone might want to install an unlicensed version of Pixaria Gallery such as for evaluation purposes but there are some major drawbacks to using older version of Pixaria Gallery which are fairly important and warrant a mention:

The first issue is that version 2.3.4 is completely outdated and doesn't represent the current state of Pixaria Gallery in any way. The admin area and much of the front end has changed so much that if you compare this version with the current release, they could be completely different products.

A second, more serious issue is that version 2.3.4 contains several known security vulnerabilities one of which could allow users to read any data from any server where it is installed including usernames, passwords and other private information.

For anyone considering installing a bootleg copy of Pixaria, please also consider that continued development of the script is funded in large part by new users and without ongoing support, it's not going to be realistic for me to continue development. I hope that people will do the right thing and avoid unlicensed bootleg copies of Pixaria Gallery and thus help to support continued development and improvement of the software for the entire community.

Ars Technica Reviews Adobe Lightroom 3

Hot on the heels of his review of Aperture 3, Ars Technica's Dave Girard has now taken an in-depth look at Lightroom 3, Adobe's premier digital photography studio software. With big new features including automatic lens correction, it looks like a solid update in anyone's book!

Check out the complete review here.

Back Online

I'm back from vacation and will be making a start on tackling my e-mail inbox over the next few days. Please be patient while I work on the backlog as I'm going through messages in order of priority.

Offline Between June 5th and 12th

From Saturday June 5th until Saturday June 12th, I will be on vacation in Turkey for a friend's wedding (no, I'm not the photographer!).

During this time, I may not be able to respond to e-mails or purchase notifications for up to 48 hours. If you buy Pixaria Gallery during this time, please note that I may not be able to provide you with your software immediately so please be patient.

Pixaria 2.8.7 Now Available

I'm delighted to announce the immediate availability of Pixaria Gallery version 2.8.7 which is primarily a maintenance release rather than a 'new features' release and which will be the last update for a few weeks owing to personal commitments.

With this update, I've taken a bit of time off my main development roadmap to respond to feedback on a range of smaller requests for enhancements.

The first area where I've made improvements is in the gallery admin tools. The last update made a number of changes to how nested galleries are handled in Pixaria's database which are designed to improve the performance of the front end of the site. In this release, I've implemented further changes that speed up many gallery related operations in the admin area too and which will pave the way for much improved gallery organisation tools for administering gallery ordering and display.

For users with certain types of digital cameras, the image import and upload system in the admin area now supports automatic image rotation for images containing embedded EXIF orientation metadata and I've added some other fixes for issues with the Flash uploader when mod_security is enabled and for image resizing when files contain large volumes of IPTC or XMP metadata.

I've also implemented a new slideshow system in the front end which I feel offers better performance and design than the previous system based on 'Lightbox2'.

To get this update, please drop me an e-mail at upgrade@pixaria.com and I'll send the new version to you. As always, please take a moment to check out the release notes and change log before upgrading as these contain full details of all the modifications in this version.