Tag galleries

When you create tag galleries by combining NextGEN with Justified Image Grid, you'll be amazed how fast you can set up a new gallery. The photos can reside in any gallery, because tag galleries re-use images from your NextGEN library as a whole. As you'll learn from the following examples, it's fun to mix and match keywords, then further narrow them with more tags. It's a great tool to show exactly what you desire. The best thing is that tag galleries are self-updating, meaning whenever you add a relevant photo tagged with your keywords, the galleries using that tag will magically include your newly added photo. Having a well-maintained NextGEN library is key for this. To achieve that, importing images with IPTC metadata and keywords from Lightroom is probably the best workflow. Living proof that the method is effective: this very site relies heavily on creating tag galleries when showing photos for various examples.

This gallery was created by typing two words - bird and dog - into the setting that creates tag galleries. The number of photos increases with more tags. Use the Filtering feature (here as a tag cloud) for the added benefit of your users interacting with your well-tagged pictures.

Enable intersect tags mode to change how your desired tags work together. In this gallery you'll see sexy photos of women in bikini but only when a man also happens to be in the picture. Separately they'd create much larger galleries but only two photos have all three keywords.