Viewing thumbnails and Permissions

I am having a problem using this plugin what is happening is I create a folder on the server named JENA this folder resides in images/models/jena
now inside jena the hot photoplugin creates a thumb folder to display the thumbnails. But for some reason it will not create the thumbnails inside the folder. So I tried manually setting the perms at 777 and it worked the plugin now created the thumbnails,by default the perms on the thumb folder gets 755. How can I deal with this problem so the perms on the thumbnail folder get 777 so it can create the thumbs then maybe put it back to 755. Has anyone had this problem yet. Help please.

One solution is to CHMOD folder to 777 and after the plugin make thumbnails, to revert it back to 755 (as 777 is not safe).

Better solution is to change owner of all Joomla files. Apache should be owner of all Joomla files and folders (not root user). Then it will work even with 755. However, if you are on a shared host you probably don't have such privilege.

If you have SSH root access, here's the command that will change owner of you Joomla files and folders: