I'm preparing to build a site for organizing, managing, tracking, presenting, selecting, and delivering digital images.
It would be used as both a showcase and a product delivery tool. It would most likely be "fed" from Lightroom using a custom export.
My initial goals are:
Maintain libraries of images, each stored in one or more formats (TIFF,JPEG, and in some cases RAW).
Present water-marked, reduced size JPEGS in access-controlled galleries (some galleries requiring a specific password to log into, others open to the public)
Associate keywords with each image and gallery to aid users searching both locally and across the web.
Allow users with appropriate rights to download full-res images.
The galleries need to have easy overview and navigation, such as Flickr and other image sharing sites offer.
Eventually I would also like to:
Allow registered users to build lightboxes from the galleries to which they have access
Provide an e-commerce engine to allow simple purchasing of images in different resolutions.
Provide a roll-over showing image information - size, location, keywords, etc., and possibly price and licensing information.
A system similar to any of the large microstock sites could probably be adapted to work well. (access control restrictions by gallery being absent in most.)
Does anyone have recommendations about (or experience with) specific modules that are suitable or helpful, or the best way to go about building such a site?
Examples of similar sites would also be welcome.
I am interested in the technical aspects of building such a site, not particularly in buying this service from any of the photographer-service sites available (I have reviewed and researched a number of them, and their cost/benefit ratio is too low, and their feature set not a perfect match for my intended use.)
Thanks for any and all advice!