{"id":12377,"date":"2007-06-01T18:54:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/06\/new-flash-html-gallery-engine-for-bridge.html"},"modified":"2007-06-01T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:54:04","slug":"new_flash_html_gallery_engine_for_bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/new_flash_html_gallery_engine_for_bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"New Flash, HTML gallery engine for Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling overwhelmed by Adobe updates yet? &lt;:-) <\/p>\n<p>Okay, just one more for now, but I think it&#8217;ll be worth your while: the new <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Adobe_Media_Gallery\">Adobe Media Gallery engine<\/a> adds Flash and HTML gallery creation capabilities to Adobe Bridge CS3.&#160; By leveraging the Flash- and JavaScript-based extensibility of the Bridge platform, we&#8217;ve been able to build a powerful little engine for cranking out both Flash-based and HTML-based Web galleries (here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/bridge\/amg_screenshot.jpg\">screenshot<\/a>, as well as Jeff Tranberry&#8217;s 4-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/crawlspace\/AMGWebSmall.mov\">video demo<\/a>).&#160; Any file that Bridge can preview (which is just about everything in the Suite&#8211;JPEGs, PSDs, raw files, PDFs, Illustrator and InDesign docs, etc.) can be included in a gallery.&#160; Finished galleries can be uploaded directly from Bridge via FTP. <\/p>\n<p>To get cranking with AMG, make sure you first update to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/06\/bridge_cs3_upda.html\">Bridge 2.1<\/a>,  then download the installer from Adobe Labs.&#160; The site includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Adobe_Media_Gallery#Quick_Start_Guide\">quick start guide<\/a>, list of known issues, and more.&#160; Developers interested in building on Bridge can view and reuse the code that&#8217;s in AMG (e.g. FTP upload).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualityprocess.com\/\">Quality Process<\/a> for all their efforts in bringing AMG to the world, and to the crew at <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefire.tv\/\">Blue Fire<\/a> for making the SWF templates (which have now been <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.adobe.com\/amg\/\">open-sourced<\/a>).&#160; Great work, guys!<\/p>\n<p>See also previous, related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/07\/nextgen_web_galleries.html\">Next-gen Web galleries: XSLT, Flash, &amp; CSS for all<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/05\/tips_on_lightro.html\">Tips on Lightroom Flash galleries<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/03\/postcardviewer_in_ps.html\">New Flash gallery hook-up for Photoshop<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/03\/postcardviewer_in_ps.html\"><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling overwhelmed by Adobe updates yet? &lt;:-) Okay, just one more for now, but I think it&#8217;ll be worth your while: the new Adobe Media Gallery engine adds Flash and HTML gallery creation capabilities to Adobe Bridge CS3.&#160; By leveraging the Flash- and JavaScript-based extensibility of the Bridge platform, we&#8217;ve been able to build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}