4images if a extremely cool image gallery software . I have been a fan of 4images , which btw is available from www.4homepages.de and not 4images.com , as you might mistake it if you dont know. I just noticed that I have been using 4images for the past 6 years now . Being an open source software , like many others 4images has its own advantages and some demerits . As a photo gallery software, it is quite versatile and has several end user as well as admin features and options. In the recent versiion which is 4images 1.7.3 i believe, it has captcha and batch resizing inbuilt , which means any image which is uploaded can get cropped and resized as well and there is also option for batch watermarking.

4images also supports integration of user database with various forum database , out of which vBulletin and phpBB comes by default and is supported if i remember. Personally i have managed to keep it integrated with Invisionboard all versions till date now , in my other television forum ( Discusstv). In discusstv I have also succesfully used a modification to make urls seo oriented , using htaccess . But one thing i had found difficult is to leech protect . Other than that , 4images also supports having a gallery of not only images but also Flash files and WMV and different video formats with preview options too .

But all these are common knowledge and may not be of much inetrest to some of you . The good news is I have now started designing 4images templates . You may view a design which i have done here http://www.discusstv.com/gallery/ and another at Sareez.com ( LINK HERE as site is non existant currently ) . But i did that almost 1-2 years back. I have thought of giving away these two templates for free . If i see it gets good response , I will start making more nicer templates for 4images soo. I have already started on a pink colored design. So if you are interested, stay tuned.