Download jAlbum 10.10

Version 10.10 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily adjusted, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The Windows version has issues with some versions of Java and is therefore bundled with Java, resulting in a larger download.

Since version 10, the program is no longer free for commercial use. A license for version 10 and all 10-series updates costs 39 euros, removes all advertising and gives access to higher priority support. Also new are full support for xmp metadata, the ability to integrate created albums into websites, and the option to exchange images and even entire folders between different projects. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

News and Updates

• Faster album making (roughly 30% faster image processing)
• Faster loading of large album projects (album objects are initialized by multiple threads)
• New “Make an album like that” feature: Ability to import album settings from existing published albums, so you can copy the look of an album you like. See File->Import
• Ability to reset an album project to default settings. Practical if you’ve lost your way in settings. See File->Import
• Easier and faster skin updating: Skins can now be downloaded and installed from within jAlbum. No need to involve the web browser.
• Better, user configurable credit links, helping making jAlbum known. See Album settings->Pages
• New Minimal skin (v2.0). Updated to today’s web standards, but keeping the minimalistic feel.
• Updated Base and Turtle skins
• For skin developers: New alpha (transparency) aware color selector (JAlphaColorSelector)
• Somewhat more performant file writes
• Now verifies validity of web root URLs, making it less likely to have a 404 error when viewing final album
• Widget support always on for unlicensed users
• Various minor code improvements

Bug fixes

• Users could sometimes get a “No such user” error message after uploading albums
• Album projects containing folders with representing thumbnails referenced via broken links wouldn’t open
• The output (album) directory was created as soon as skins were loaded instead of at album build time