COMPANY: Datadosen | URL: http://jalbum.net | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows, Linux | PRICE: FREE
		This Free web photo album/gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category–and free! With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM. JAlbum runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others and speaks 28 languages. Today JAlbum is mentioned over 3,000,000 times on the Internet (Google/Altavista) and its site has over 8000 visitors per day and a live community. JAlbum was written after numerous disappointments with existing album software. With JAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just color theme and basic layout, still making an album is just a matter of drag and drop + a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. JAlbum will process your images, make index pages and slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see. Main features Easy to use. Just drag and drop an image folder onto JAlbum, select an output directory and press "Make album" Flexible. Album appearance can be highly customized through use of skins (album themes). Use or modify one of the many existing skins or create your own album look by making your own skin! New edit section: Arrange and select images easily by using drag and drop in an Explorer-like user interface. Edit comments, rotate images and run slide shows off your local hard disk. Publish the created album on the Internet in a snap with an integrated smart FTP and SFTP client with synchronization ability. Create albums with text and comments in any language. JAlbum itself speaks 28 languages. Use any web browser to view the generated albums. No special viewing software needed. Albums can be served from any web server, a local harddisk, CR-ROM etc. JAlbum supports deep hierachies of image folders. Each folder is represented by a folder icon in the resulting web. You can easily organize thousands of images. Any file type, not just images, can also be added to albums (with icons linking to the resource) Easy to use wizard that helps you create an on-line web account for publishing your images (You can also use your existing account). EXIF support. Camera make, shutter speed, aperture and other metadata can be extracted from images and used in albums Image filters can be plugged in to enhance images during album generation, adding watermarking, logos etc. An open API and source code example are provided so developers easily can add new filters. Really advanced album functions can be scripted in a Java-like language called BeanShell. This allows for limitless extensions to JAlbum. It's a JavaBean! The inner engine of JAlbum is a JavaBean meaning that you can easily integrate it into existing Java applications. An example could be inside a webserver for automated album generation. Here is an API for the bean. It runs in console mode too (shell window). This allows for easy automation repeating album generation tasks through batch files etc. Runs everywhere. It's Java so it runs on Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX, OS/2, eComStation... Any platform that supports Java 1.4 It's free and that's no bull. No expiration dates. No nag screens. No adware. No spyware. No bad conscience :-) However, a donation to the developer to support this project is highly appreciated. Quick start Assuming you have installed and started JAlbum successully, let's create our first web photo album in three simple steps: 1. Select image directory Creating an album is really simple. Drag and drop a folder/directory containing images to the "Image directory" section of the JAlbum window. (JAlbum reads JPEG, GIF and PNG image files. TIFF, BMP and JPEG 2000 are supported through the Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools plugin from Sun) 2. Select output directory To select output direcory, simply drag and drop a folder/directory to the "Output directory" section like you did with the image directory. As an alternative you can check the "Output to image directory" checkbox to have the album generated in the image directory instead. 3. Press "Make album" You can now select the appearance of your album by selecting different skins and styles (variations to a skin). Finally press the "Make album" button. Wait for generation, then press "View album" to view the new web album in your browser. If you like to adjust things, do that and press "Make album" again followed by "View album".