HelpConsole 2008 SP1

Most generated galleries include a Flash animation intro that appears on the home page of the gallery. This animation is made up of up to nine of the user's images. By default, the program uses images from the top album listed. This Intro animation option lets you identify the album with the images that you want to use for the animation.

For the most control of the Intro animation, you may want to create an album just for this purpose (see the section below).

To select an album for the Intro animation:

Select the thumbnail of the album you want to designate as the Intro animation album
In the Intro animation section, select Manual and check the box next to Album used for animation
If you have created an Intro animation album, you may also want to check the Hide album(s) box at the bottom of this tab

Cropping Intro animation images

Some of the gallery themes have a design optimized for images that are square and/or are consistent in size. If some of your Intro animation images are not square, or if you think they will look better with different cropping, you can Force crop the Intro animation images. Checking the box Force crop for best animation fit:

Overrides thumbnail cropping that you set in the Step 2, Other tab
Affects just the images in the Intro animation
Forces cropping to display the Top/Left of the images

Creating an Intro animation album

Creating an album just for the Intro animation gives you the most control over your gallery's animation.

Use your favorite images: select your favorite images (up to nine images), put them into an album, and specify the album as the Intro animation album by checking the box in this tab. When your gallery is generated, the program will use your favorite images from the designated album for the Intro animation
Force Crop for best results: checking this box on this tab ensures all the images used for your Intro animation are consistent in size. See the section above, "Cropping Intro animation images."
Hide the Intro animation album: since the images within the Intro animation album may also be in other albums in your gallery, you can check the Hide album(s) in the Album display section of the tab so that the album created for the Intro animation will not be displayed in your gallery.