I've been working on extending my flash based photo gallery, a few new features are now on the lastest gallery... Click Here to see

• The transitions now use a brightness blend, which I like very much, I think the way it blends the photos in and out from their light sources looks really cool.
• A tool tip now appears when you hover over the image navigation buttons, which displays the photo title... which is quite handy.
• I've added a background image too, which wasn't a difficult thing but meant a preloader needed to be added... nothing too fancy just eye-candy.

I've been pondering the idea of adding scrolling for oversized images... some of my panoramic shots really need to be on the galleries properly. I've also been thinking about adding thumbnails, but I think maybe the tool-tip will be enough...

I've also extended the gallery to accept it's object (image or swf) listings as an xml file, and this has meant it's easy for me to turn the gallery into a mini-site engine for some of my low-low budget clients...

• purplesneakers.net
• Natalie Ross and the Renegades

The system allows these guys to update their own content by modifying static images or SWF's (animated or not) and updating the site XML file, which also controls things like an email gateway, audio clip or featured link.