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.. _introduction:

Introduction
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.. _what-does-it-do:

What does it do?
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(FS) Media Gallery is a FAL based media gallery for TYPO3.
It allows you to display your media assets from your local or remote storage as media albums.

Features
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* Easy to use for editors through TYPO3's Mass Uploader
* Quickly turns your FAL file collections into media albums
* Based on Extbase and Fluid and therefore very easy to style
* Comes with a basic automatic RealURL configuration
* Supports LightBox/Colorbox (For a LightBox example use this extension in combi with `EXT:bootstrap_package <https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/bootstrap_package/>`_)
* Fully configurable by TypoScript
* Smoothly integrates into `EXT:news <http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/news>`_ => v3.2.0
* Media Assets (images) can be protected with `EXT:fal_secure_download <http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/fal_securedownload>`_ or `EXT:naw_securedl <http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/naw_securedl>`_