JAlbum Your photos on the web

Welcome to JAlbum v1.1.1

Check out this web album from my ski trip made with JAlbum

Your photos on the web - easily

Have you wished for a tool to help you getting your photos on the web? I did.
Have you found irritating shortcomings in existing shareware products? I have.
Are you simply annoyed by software fees on fairly simple programs? I am.
Wait no more! JAlbum does the tedious work for you - for free.

Drop a folder containing JPEG images onto JAlbum and press "Make album". JAlbum will create thumbnails of your images and display them in an index page in html. You can also have JAlbum produce a slide show of your images for easy navigation. The slide show contains scaled-down versions of the original images. Clicking on these images brings up the original image (for printing etc). JAlbum does not touch or modify your original images in any way. It just adds some files and folders to the image folder you specify during web creation. JAlbum can also create a web of a hierarchy of image folders.

The look

You can easily customize the basic look of the created web through the user interface of JAlbum (color scheme and thumbnail size etc), but most of the power of customization comes from the fact that JAlbum uses stylesheets for controlling the appearance. When a web is made, fine tuning can easily be done by editing the generated styles.css file (there are comments inside to help you). These changes then apply to all slides within a folder.
Want to see the result? Check out the images from my last ski vacation.

Getting it

JAlbum runs on all major operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X). On the JAlbum download page you will find installers for your operating system. JAlbum is a 100% Java program and requires the Java Runtime 1.3 to be installed, if this isn't already done on your machine, just select the install option that includes a "Java VM" or download a Java VM from Sun

Using it

JAlbum is based on a single window with a couple of fields and buttons divided into two tab pages

The Main page

Image directory -Drag and drop a folder containing JPEG images here
Process subdirectories -Make a web of a hierachy of image folders
Image ordering -Specify either chronoligical or alphabetical ordering
Style -Select color theme and look of your album
Make slides -Make a slide show with next/previous buttons and display of image details.
Append new images only -Don't remake existing images (a lot faster). Select this when image size need not be changed
Title -Leave blank to use folder name instead
Thumbnail size -Specifies bounding box. Images will maintain aspect ratio
Columns -Number of image columns in the index page
Show labels -Show image filename below thumbnails
Max size -Image bounding box. Images will maintain aspect ratio
Show dates -If image date/time should be displayed in slide show
Make album/abort -Start/stop button for web creation
View album -Preview resulting web album in your browser

The Advanced page

High quality scaling -Smoother but slower image scaling
JPEG quality -Balance file size / image quality
URL encoding -Toggle encoding of spaces and foreign characters in links
Index page name -File name of the index page with thumbnails that gets created in the image directory
Date format -Display format for date/time

Future plans

Enable writing of album to other directory than image directory
Increase speed
Support more file formats - (actually avi and mpg is already supported)
Add image meta information (shutter speed, aperture etc)
Console mode for batch processing

Changes

2002-04-04 1.1.1 Changes:

This web content is also available as a local help file
Help and uninstall is directly accessible from the JAlbum program group (windows)
No longer expands thumbnail index tables to 100% of the page with

Bug fixes:

Launching of the current web browser when viewing result didn't work on Mac OS and Linux

2002-03-22 1.1 - The changes in this release are mainly based on user input. Thanks to those who have mailed me with encouragement and ideas.
Enhancements:

Installer/uninstaller added for all major operating systems. Thank you ZeroG for providing such a great free tool!
Images can now be ordered either chronologically or alphabetically
Handy preview button added
Warns before writing album into a new directory
The name of the thumbnail page can be set
URL encoding of filenames can be turned off
The GUI has been redesigned to handle more features
Better looking icon :) Credits to Micce

Bug fixes:

Images are no longer enlarged if they are smaller than the bounding box
The directory chooser now starts in the current image directory

2002-02-20 1.0 - Initial release.

Legal

JAlbum v1.1.1 is Freeware, enjoy!
It may not be sold for profit but a distributor has the right to charge for the cost of physical media. The usual disclaimers apply. It means that the author is not responsible for any damages caused by direct or indirect use of this program.

The author

JAlbum is written by David Ekholm, Datadosen
If you like the program or have some suggestions, please let me know. Response from users is what drives me to continue
You can also reach me by mail or phone (although email is preferred):

Datadosen
David Ekholm
Vasavägen 2
s-177 52 Järfälla
Sweden

Phone: +46 8 580 15668. Mobile: +46 70 486 77 38