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Both Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 allow photographers to create and customize Flash photo galleries using the Adobe Media Gallery, an open-source Flash project hosted on SourceForge. Flash developers wishing to create their own photo galleries for use within these applications may download this source code and use it as a guide for their own projects.

Once a custom .swf photo gallery has been made, Photoshop Elements 5.0 even has a nifty Gallery Maker system that allows developers to include it in the app. However, while Elements has its Gallery Maker, Lightroom does not have such a mechanism.

The following article explains how a Flash author may substitute their own swf for the one Lightroom uses.

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Adobe’s Michael Slater and Trent Brown have written an excellent article about the Media Galleries on the Flash Developer Center. In it they describe how you can create your own Flash gallery program as an alternative to the SWF that Adobe provides with ‘GalleryMaker’ API provided with Photoshop Elements 5.0.

Read the article here.