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Pixaria Gallery 2.8.8 Released

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pixaria Gallery version 2.8.8 which is an important new release containing a number of significant new features and improvements.

The big news in this update is that, Pixaria now supports uploading and importing of TIFF, PSD and JPEG 2000 images*, further enhancing the digital asset management capabilities of the software and making it even more useful as an archiving and image management software package.

Non JPEG images in the above supported formats are imported and resized into JPEG comp and thumbnail versions which can be viewed and managed in exactly the same way as with standard JPEG files. I hope to be able to further expand the supported image formats in the near future pending feedback on this new feature.

Other new features in this update include:

1. Support for e-mail address whitelisting for new registrations
2. Admin definable download rights for users on a gallery by gallery basis
3. Gallery level control over image product availability
4. Administrators can require users to accept terms and conditions and enter their intended use of images when downloading free files.

Also included in this update are a large number of minor enhancements and bug fixes. The large number of changed files in this release is due to the new support for PHP 5.3 which has required changes in many areas of the script.

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.

*The new image format support requires that ImageMagick is installed on your web server and it not compatible with Windows at the present time. ImageMagick will automatically be detected where it is available and you will then be able to import the newly supported file formats. To check if ImageMagick is installed, browse to the 'Extensions' tab of the software status page in the admin area of your Pixaria installation.

Regrettably, it's not possible to support these additional image formats where ImageMagick is not installed. This is because the GD graphics library which is included with PHP does not support working with image formats other than JPEG, GIF and PNG.

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