Infoway LLC

This is a Polaroid image gallery plugins with the following features: 
* Create sub folders and upload photos to subfolder. Each subfolder represents a separate photo album 
* Must be possible to upload a cover photo for each album 
* Must be possible to add a date, title, and description for each album 
* Facility to add watermark to the images – watermark image must be able to be uploaded to the server. Must be possible to have a unique watermark for each album 
* Must be possible to add a caption for each image 
* On the front end, the cover photo for each album should be displayed on the main gallery page, like a set of polaroids, at different angles 
* Users should be able to view each album by clicking on the cover photo 
* Photos within albums should also be displayed like polaroids (i.e. like holiday snaps, not just in a straight line) 
* Photos can be enlarged by clicking on them 
* an icon or set of icons on each photo that allows you to share that photo on facebook and other social media sites or email it to someone
It would be ideal if this photo gallery worked in a similar way to Yootheme’s WordPress widgetkit Gallery http://www.yootheme.com/demo/themes/wordpress/2012/sync/?page_id=112 (see polaroid example)

Social Photo Gallery

Social Photo Gallery allow Polaroid image gallery.

Vilyon

Gallery Factory Lite is a WordPress plugin for managing image collections, creating albums and presenting them to the website visitors in modern, responsive and attractive way.
The main feature of the plugin is Gallery Manager, the ajax-driven interface which keeps almost everything that you need to work with your WordPress image gallery in one place. It allows to organise albums in multi-level folder structure using simple and intuitive UI, like in your favourite file manager.
The plugin offers three layouts to choose from: Grid, Metro, and Masonry. All three layout types can be edited using WYSIWYG layout editor.
This is the Lite version of the full-featured premium Gallery Factory plugin, which is available at <a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/gallery-factory/11219294" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeCanyon</a>. Lite version is 100% forward-compatible with the premium version, so you can upgrade at any time.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tree-like albums structure allowing albums to be grouped in folders and subfolders (Lite version is limited to 3 levels of this hierarchy)*</li>
<li>Dedicated file upload location (keeps Gallery Factory uploads separate from the WP Media files)</li>
<li>Responsive Grid layout</li>
<li>3 layout types , including the Metro layout with the unmatched customizing possibilities.</li>
<li>WYSIWYG layout editor</li>
<li>Importing of image EXIF metadata on upload</li>
<li>Custom image thumbnail cropping</li>
<li>Easy image import from WP Media and migration from NextGen Gallery</li>
<li>Modern, fast & responsive</li>
<li>Localization-ready (English, German and Russian languages included)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium version</h4>
If you enjoy the Lite version of Gallery Factory, you’ll love the premium one. Additionally it offers:
<ul>
<li>Folder shortcode: the shortcode that displays a Gallery Factory folder on a page, providing navigation to its child folders and albums. With this shortcode you’ll never need to get back to the page to update your multi-album portfolio;</li>
<li>Gallery pagination with 4 pagination types (page numbers, bullets, “load more” button and load on scroll);</li>
<li>Adjustable column count for mobile gallery display;</li>
<li>Lazy loading for thumbnails (loads thumbnails only when they’re needed, speeding up the initial page load);</li>
<li>Custom click behavior for thumbnails (redirect to a given URL or open it in a new window);</li>
<li>Yoast SEO integration: all images within Gallery Factory shortcode are included in the XML sitemap;</li>
<li>Custom thumbnail compression ratio</li>
<li>Layout defaults: enable you to set the default layout options for the newly created albums;</li>
</ul>

Gallery Factory Lite

Great tool for managing large image collections with user-friendly gallery manager interface and visual layout…

Social Photo Gallery vs Gallery Factory Lite