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Coming soon... Divestock

If you're a photographer with a stock photo library or run a picture library on behalf of other photographers, then you may be interested to hear about Divestock, a new service designed to help you promote your images to a wider audience.

More details of the service are available on the Divestock website which will debut later this year alongside Pixaria 2.0. If you're interested, be sure to enter your e-mail address to be added to the mailing list and I'll let you know when more information becomes available.

Your feedback is needed!

If you're a current or prospective user of Pixaria, I'm looking for your feedback in helping to shape the future of the software by commenting on planned changes and additions in version 2.0.

Some of the proposals will change how the script works at quite a low level and I would really welcome comments and thoughts on these topics before I commit to the changes. You can read more in the General Discussion forum at Pixaria Central.

PHP 4 end of life announcement

The PHP development team have announced that PHP 4 has reached it's end of life but fear not because Pixaria is compatible with both PHP 4 and PHP 5:

From www.php.net Friday July 13th 2007

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

Pixaria Gallery 1.5.3 is out now!

If you like to keep up to date with the latest and greatest version of Pixaria, you'll be pleased to hear that version 1.5.3 is now available. This is a minor version upgrade and only adds one new feature which is the ability to sell and offer free downloads of EPS files.

Other changes in this update are improvements to the account editor and registration pages to make the country selection menu more user friendly, bug fixes to the login page and improvements to file downloads to support TIFF images more reliably and allow for downloads of files with spaces in the filename.

Registered users can get the update for free by e-mailing upgrade@pixaria.com quoting your original transaction information.

Changes to image downloads coming soon

In version 2.0 of Pixaria, I will be changing how high resolution images are stored to allow for better control of how images are sold to customers at different resolutions. Part of this change will involve an alteration to the organisational structure of the library storage folders. To make this transition simpler, I will be introducing these changes in version 1.5.3.

At the present time, high-res PSD, TIFF and JPEG 2000 images have to be stored in folders called original_PSD, original_TIF and original_JP2 which are located alongside the thumbnail, comping and original JPEG images in your library image folders. From version 2.0, these images will have to be stored all together with full size JPEG images in the 'original' folder currently only used for high-res JPEG images.

As with the current version of Pixaria, high-resolution images of any kind are completely optional and you can include whatever types or combinations of files you want or even none at all.

To ease the transition to the new organisational structure, version 1.5.3 will make it possible to store images in either the new or old locations but you will need to migrate entirely to the new way of storing high-res files in order to offer file downloads with Pixaria 2.0 when it is released.

If you have any concerns or comments about these changes, please e-mail me for more information or post a message in the online discussion forums at http://www.pixariacentral.com/.