PhotoShelf is an attempt at a complete web base photo archive, management, and display system. I have over 3500 as of this writing, and so as you can imagine, the storage of these photos for efficient and fast retrieval is a primary goal. You can also change various properties of the albums.
Most pages have a help link near the bottom right of the main table.
Clicking this will pop up a help window describing how to use each section. To improve efficiency, the images themselves are stored using ways that takes advantage of the UNIX filesystem structure, minimising the load on the database. I also use the ImageMagick modules to do some basic image manipulation, and to generate thumbnails. It also allows you to download albums in these formats too. The database layout is somewhat complexish, especially for the albums, so I will describe it below in order that anyone can understand it to make any changes.