The new Photo Lab, accessible by selecting "Photo Lab" from the control panel main menu, provides the first of many rounds of improved image handling features that WedShare will be introducing this year.

Navigate your photos, crop, add effects, and organize into albums

Add photos to multiple albums

Albums and Slideshows
Add a photo to as many albums as you like, and post albums on your pages in the place of single files. You can have your albums play automatically as slideshows, along with a thumbnail strip and easy navigational bar so your visitors can browse through your photos easily. Size your slideshows to match your pages and content, even opt to have the photos shuffled randomly.

Post slideshows!

You can have your slideshows transition as swappable images or with a smooth pan and zoom effect. In either case, you can hide or display the thumbnail strip, which moves along with the slideshow progression to keep the latest image current. There is no size limit to the slideshows: post as many photos in a slideshow, and as many slideshows on as many pages as you like!

Bulk Upload
Uploading is the process of transferring photos from your computer or camera to your website. For full convenience, you can upload as many photos as you like at once, and modify the image even before the upload takes place. By loading the Photo Gallery and clicking "Add Photos", you'll bring up the Uploader as seen below:

Upload as many files as you like at one time. Thumbnails appear automatically as you select files.

Crop and rotate before
uploading

As you select photos or groups of photos from your computer, attached camera, or other device, the thumbnails for your selections appear below the selection list. You can click on these thumbnails to crop and rotate your images before actually uploading. Add caption text before uploading as well, all in one easy step to make adding photos to your Photo Lab a snap. Upon launching the upload, a real-time status bar clearly shows how the upload is progressing, and how much time is left.

Rich Cropping Features
The Photo Lab crop tool is a full-featured cropper, allowing you to precisely control how your photos are sized and displayed. A floating tool pane shows you a crop preview and provides the ability to enter in desired pixel dimensions.

Full-featured photo cropping functionality

Comments
Now you can also allow your viewers to post comments on your website pages for each photo. Comments appear in a floating panel similar to Welcome Page alerts, which allow comments to be browsed and posted without affecting the page layout.

Allow visitors to expand your photos and post comments, in a convenient floating panel interface