Pick you photos for the gallery and put them in a file- 5 minutes
Use a program to resize the big pics like Arles - 20 seconds
Make your thumbs (using Alres - 10 seconds...using photoshop - 15 minutes)
Make the gallery page - 5 minutes. (use a template you have already and change the background colors, the meta tags, the alt tags, and the some of the body text)
Really shouldn't take you longer than 30 minutes to make a gallery. And if you use a thumb maker to make the thumbs rather than photoshop then it is 10-15 minutes max to make a gallery.
What is taking you 2 hours?
Here is a gallery I made. Then another gallery I made in under 30 minutes I'm sure and I use photoshop to make my thumbs.
http://www.formerpornstars.com/chris...n/gallery.html
http://www.formerpornstars.com/chant...e/gallery.html