Yeah Gallery 2 is the best ...im using it for my sitep photoaudit.com it is only in testing phase wiht mine any my friend pictures but I have used this many times before ...great support, nice and clean program code
I'd wholeheartedly recommend coppermine photo gallery, it really is an incredibly flexible script and is very easy to build a template around.
install joomla and install zoomgallery which is a joomla component. you can find the details at joomla.org and both of them are free
Hehe. It's interesting to see how many people will post suggesting a script that the OP was wanting an alternative to. I haven't worked with Coppermine, so I can't comment on its use. I have used Gallery 2, and have to say I've loved it, mainly for ease of use and integration with either a Drupal site I had worked on, or with Wordpress.
Are there any useful mods/plugins available for coppermine? And one more thing, animated gif's loop doesnt seem to work. The animation runs only once.