jAlbum homeToday we have released Jalbum 8.2. With each release we have two main goals:
- Simplify the workflow for newcomers
- Empower advanced users
At a glance, these dual goals might seem contradicting, but we firmly believe this is the balance we need to strike in order to satisfy the many existing users and at the same time attract users with less computing skills. The changes made to Jalbum 8.2 are in line with this philosophy.
Workflow improvements
We have made several simplifications to the work flow, from the welcome sign in panel to publishing your first album. We've introduced a collapsible user interface panel where we can hide more advanced settings and redesigned the main settings panel to better reflect the basic album settings most users would want to set.
Power to professionals
Camera enthusiasts and professionals will appreciate the improvements we've made to handling camera metadata. In Jalbum's Edit view, Jalbum now displays a "Camera" panel that extracts relevant camera EXIF information like F number, exposure time and focal length. Jalbum even calculates the 35mm focal length equivalent for you.
Power to developers
Skin developers, check out the improved "Skin developer" menu under the Tools menu! You will enjoy a powerful integrated text editor that does syntax coloring and is aware of the variables that can be used by a skin. It also has internal documentation for all Jalbum variables. Apart from improvements to this editor, we've added new functions to the "Skin developer" menu to create new skins and delete skins.
The new camera info panel and integrated text editor are two examples of Plugins using Jalbum's new Plugin API. This API allows developers to add new components to Jalbum's Tools menu, its context menu and edit panel. Skin developers may also use this API to add custom UIs to the edit panel. A custom edit panel may for instance contain fields not yet available in Jalbum's main UI, like fields for category and location for instance, or why not have UI controls for customizing the layout on an image-by-image basis? It will be exciting to see what the skin developer community comes up with! I will soon release a demo skin in the skin repository that shows how a skin can use this new API to produce a custom edit panel.
Jalbum's integrated text editor and camera info plugin have been released as open source under the liberal Apache license. You can access the source code in the links above. If you make improvements to these plugins or make new plugins, please post them in Jalbum's developer forum.
Enjoy!
Comments
4 years ago Carl Manneh
@cryptozoltan: have a look in the footer of the site, look for "Support Jalbum". There you'll find a lot of Jalbum banners and buttons to use. Thanks for the support!
4 years ago Wolff
David, you make me too happy by remembering the state of the change directory panel!
Thanks in advance!
4 years ago cryptozoltan
I have to be truthful, I have removed jalbum picture of the frog from my galleries (but I left the link in), I would like to replace it with a more subtle link if you have one....I cannot fault the service.
The product is up there too....
Keep up the good work and thanks.
4 years ago Wolff
Jalbum enables me to use drag and drop for the photo folder, not for the target folder.
So because I have always to select ‘Change directory occasions’ for the target folder, I can do that as well for the photo folder. To use drag and drop, I have first to browse to the required folder, which is the same amount of work if I do it within Jalbum via the Select Photo folder.
4 years ago cryptozoltan
I too have the same problem as Wolff, I create new albums for each additional webpage or category. As Jalbum always creates index1.html page for each album I find it easier to place new webpage albums or categories into a new folder, so I am repeatedly creating new projects. Each project is invariably on my network server and not stored locally on my PC so I need to review where jalbum is pacing the results carefully each time to avoid overwrites.
4 years ago David Ekholm
@Wolff, please describe why you need to modify these fields for every album. I simply drag and drop an image directory and get started, or select "New album project" and start dragging in images.
4 years ago Wolff
Please supply also word wrap for this blog; the "Post comment" link is not visible in IE7 on my Vista, I have to scroll far to the right to make that link visible!
4 years ago Wolff
Please do what you said in the comment voor @xbilbo:
"What we can do is naturally to make Jalbum remember the unfolded state of all such panels."
How can you say: "most users really have no need to modify the image and output directory fields"? I have to do that for each new Album!!
4 years ago koch27
David,
"@koch27, where are you lacking word wrap support? In a specific part of our web site?"
Right here, this uRL, the text on my IE7 on two different computers goes forever to the right with no word wrap. HOWEVER, I just tested the same URL with Mozilla FIrefox, and it works OK.
Thanks,
Erich Koch
4 years ago David Ekholm
@koch27, where are you lacking word wrap support? In a specific part of our web site?
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