Photoshop CS2 includes a couple new Web Photo Gallery styles with Flash power!

If you haven’t noticed yet, Photoshop CS2 has some new styles in its Web Photo Gallery options, and the exciting part is that two of them are Flash-based! If you’ve always hated showing off your pictures online with plain transitions or no transitions at all, give one of these Flash styles a try. You don’t need to know a single thing about the Flash application because Photoshop CS2 takes care of all the hard work for you. Select your style, point the application to your source images and destination folder, and it will generate all the files.

Above is a screenshot of a Web Photo Gallery I quickly set up. My one complaint (and it’s a big one) is that there’s only two styles and they are both bare-bones and pretty much identical to one another. The only difference is that one is vertical and one is horizontal. But the transitions are smooth Flash-based fade-ins and fade-outs, and there’s some new icons at the lower left for navigation. Flash can make just about anything slick and cool, and these galleries are no exception.