The settings panel? Just screenshots.

Very tempted to leave this review as an image too…

The pros:-
1. This plugin lets you add a number of different styles of galleries. It does this bit well enough. (Unfortunately, you cannot customize any of the settings so the the galleries may or may not look right on your website.)

2. This plugin also adds a convenient sidebar widget and the images show up in a lightbox when clicked. (Again, because I couldn’t modify the size settings, the images showed up as truncated in my case.)

The cons:-
1. All those lush, comprehensive settings panels in the screenshots are actually just images of what’s available in the Pro version. The problem with this is not that the settings aren’t available–this is a free plugin and many developers limit the extent to which free plugins can be customized out of the box, which is well within their rights–but that on the whole, there’s a bait-and-switch feel. The screenshots of course can’t tell you that the settings themselves are images, and once the plugin is installed there are submenus linking to the options panel, complete with a save button that CAN be clicked. It’s a rather unpleasantly surprising way of showing users what the pro version offers, and my knee-jerk reaction was to wonder whether the developer had just forgotten to code the panels and the images were a leftover from a prototype.

2. Because of its total lack of options, this plugin actually ends up in the bottom-middle tier in its niche despite its fitness for the core task; other free plugins with equivalent functionality easily surpass the value offered by this particular plugin simply by offering even marginally greater customizability. I understand it’s their business decision…but as a user, I can also say my personal recommendation is the Supsystic Photo Gallery plugin which also offers multiple layouts, vastly greater customizability, lightbox popups, a sidebar widget, and a more polished gallery creation interface–all in the free version.