Putting up your best shots on the Web can be a frustrating and time-consuming task that not always delivers the expected results. Creating web pages to host photo collections requires a tool that puts as much emphasis on the layout as on the content. jAlbum is such a software tool – it comes with hundreds of professionally-designed themes for you to frame, organize, and upload your photos in just a few minutes. Alternatively, you can also create your own layouts and skins or customize any of the existing ones until it fits all your preferences.
Praised, among other things, by its ease of use, jAlbum is a really intuitive image editor and photo album creator. Rather than the average photo album, this tool has been designed to help you create web pages of your best images, which you can then upload to your preferred domain directly from this utility. Developed for amateur and professional photographers alike, jAlbum offers high-quality themes and skins that will surely enhance your photo galleries. It contains hundreds of them, and it offers you access to many more designed by third-party developers. Note that access to these extra skins may require purchasing additional licenses. Additionally, the program comes with a set of editing tools and creative effects and filters that will let you put an artistic touch to your photographs before arranging them in the selected skin.
Everything is customizable in jAlbum. You will find comprehensive settings to define the structure of the album, the pages, the images themselves, the effects, the videos, widgets, etc. You can link the thumbnails created by the program to the full-resolution image files, define the number of rows and columns on each page, the order of the images, the scaling method, and the size of the thumbnails. Finally, you can embed copyright notices on them to protect your authorship from unlawful use.
You can buy a jAlbum license or a jAlbum account. The functionality is basically the same in both cases, though accounts include hosting facilities of up to 10 GB (Premium) or 100 GB (Power) for all your photo albums. Pro licenses will let you use the program for commercial purposes, just like the Power account, while the Standard license and the Premium account cannot be used in for-profit projects. The authorization for commercial use includes a shopping cart that you can activate to allow those visiting your photo albums to buy any of your images.
jAlbum offers a perfect balance between simplicity of use and professional results. Anyone can create stunning photo albums and galleries and put them up on the Web in no time with this tool, and use them to promote and sell their creations in a professional-looking environment.
v12.2.4 [Sep 19, 2014]
12.2.4
News and Updates
Defaults to opening final album in external web browser after publishing album
Increased font size on caption editor of edit view
About window now contains information on Java version and number of bits (32 vs 64)
Updated internal web browser (jxBrowser 4.6)
Updated embedded Java engine (1.8.0_25)
Mac version is now bundled with Java 1.8 by default instead of relying on Apple's old Java 6
Bug fixes
Renaming recently created folders would sometimes make the folder non-openable
Toggling file exclusion didn't always take
Certain URLs (those containing spaces for instance) couldn't be opened in external browser
Released: September 18, 2014
12.2
News and Updates
Please read blog post for details on jAlbum 12.2
New full screen slide show, simplifying the process of approving images
Zoom support added to edit panel
Sub directories can now be chained, simplifying sequential navigation through large album trees (see Advanced->General). This feature defaults to off
Improved reading of TIFF and JPEG 2000 files
Displays time info when dragging clip and thumbnail sliders for videos
Windows version bundled with latest Java 8 engine (1.8.0_20)
More solid parsing of various video formats
Performance enhancement: Better cacheing of image size calculations
Developers: Updated JSON API now including image specific metadata. Developing Javscript based skins now easier than before
The whenAddedDate now corresponds to when an album object has been added to an album, and not to an album project. This also gives less eager creation of albumfiles.txt files.
The address bar of the internal browser now has a context menu
Bundled skin Minimal now uses HTML5 instead of tables. Thanks jGromit for this one.
Various minor improvements
Added experimental JavaScript support to console window
Updated bundled Turtle skin to v5.1.3
Bug fixes
Several bug fixes, for instance to uploader (more robust reconnects)
Full HD video resolution resulted in 720p instead of 1080p
Fixed ugly rendering of style selector for styles with long names
Fixed problem previewing network mounted albums in external browser
Reopening an alreadty running jAlbum on Mac by clicking the dock icon would restore maximized window to normal state
Create banners for your web pages in various formats, like SWF, AVI and GIF
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