I need an album/skin that lets me do this (see attached graphic). I can't find one. Suggestions please.

I want to re-create a family friendly web-album that I used to publish with Gallery 2. It needs to accommodate photo descriptions that can be several paragraphs in length. The description text cannot obscure the photo and is preferably positionable by the admin. Preferred positions are adjacent on the side. Pop-up text is not desired.

Comments by authorized users to be permitted.

It should look and feel like a photo album, not a sales catalog.

In the example photo page I used the word "comment" instead of "description" just about everywhere. Please make that adjustment.

Any suggestions???

Thanks, Mike

I don't think there are any skins that satisfy all of your requirements, I'm afraid.

One of my skins might be a candidate:

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/skins/mercury/sidecaptions/

But commenting by site visitors is not supported. For a site to be able to accept and store visitor comments, the album has to include server-side processing. No jAlbum skins are constructed that way - they're all entirely client-side, doing their processing in the browser, and a browser can't write information to the server. jAlbum widgets allow for commenting, but it's very rudimentary, and my skins don't support widgets at all.

Commenting by third parties can be done using collaborative albums, https://jalbum.net/help/en/JAlbum/Collaborative

Note that someone would need to have a copy of the image they want to add a comment/description to, they would have to have the correct path to that image and the ‘new’ image would overwrite the existing one. Easier if they want to submit a new image, otherwise it might be easier for them to email the text to you and say which image it pertains to.

You can also use the comment widget (see Settings->Advanced->Widgets) to allow visitors to comment on each image. The comment widget will show up in the bottom of the web page.