If you are a web or graphic designer using image galleries application to showcase your design portfolio would be an excellent idea. The open source image galleries empower you to not only showcase but also share your creative design with your clients, friends or family.

Adding intuitive image editing and gallery management tools to your web site is a quick and easy process. Build user retention and drive traffic with easy to edit and manage image libraries

What can you do with Image gallery applications?

•    Showcase your design portfolio
•    Share photos images/albums  with your friends families
•    Manage image libraries and edit photos quickly and easily

Which open source application you can use to build your own image gallery?

Gallery

As the name suggests, this is very slick and intuitive web based photo gallery application very easy to install and manage.  The key feature of this application is automatic thumbnails, resizing & rotation,   Ability to authenticate users and customize albums make this great for communities

Coppermine

Coppermine is an easy to use, multi-lingual web-picture gallery with a host of features. Full multimedia support and handy features like thumbnail creation make it a powerful and a multi-purpose application. The powerful privacy control feature with aility to manage user group makes it a perfect choice.

Zenphoto

This is one of the most popular online image gallery solutions.  Its features include, dynamic image processing foldeer based albums, editable titles and descriptions powered by AJAX, comments, themes, online uploads and simple image management.