Author: Carl

Travel Photography … and the winners are …   The 3rd Theme Shoot with Jack Hollingsworth has come to an end! Hundreds of contributing Jalbumers have, again, made this event a great learning experience. Thank you to all participants! It's now time to announce the winners.     Jack's motivation: This theme shoot was the toughest…

The 2nd Theme Shoot with Jack Hollingsworth "Portrait Photography" has come to an end! Hundreds of contributing Jalbumers have, again, made this event a great learning experience. Thank you to all participants! It's now time to announce the winners. Here is Jack's motivation:"Winners were all chosen for their lens choices, pleasing compositions, ability to fill the…

We're thrilled to see that the Jalbum iPhone app has been selected as "What's hot" in App store! Thank you to everyone who helped tweet about the app and spread the word. Please rate the app in App store for more exposure, thanks!

We have a treat coming up for all you iPhone users. Yep, we're soon launching the Jalbum iPhone app! This is a short video of the big moment of submitting the app to App store 🙂 Stay tuned for updates.

Jack Hollingsworth is easily one of photography’s most well know names in commercial lifestyle, world and stock photography. Known as @photojack on twitter, he has over 14,000 followers and that number is growing daily. WeFollow.com has Jack listed as the 11th most influential photographer on twitter. Long before the twitter boom, Jack was a well-known…

  We're celebrating summer on Jalbum. What better way to do that than having a summer sale on Jalbum accounts!? Take this opportunity to boost your account by upgrading to premium or power. We're continously adding more features to our accounts, but here's what you get by upgrading: – More storage for your precious photos.–…

  We always have an outlook for photo related stuff. Our newly found friends over at .psd Photoshop magazine just announced that the new issue of their downloadable magazine is out. It's available to download for free here! In the June issue:     ?    Olly Howe and Justin Maller – how to become an artist?  …

We've received tremendous feedback and comments on the first event in the series of Theme Shoots with Jack Hollingsworth. The hundreds of participating Jalbumers also seem to have made an impression on Jack : "I'm blown away by all the talent shown in the Jalbum community. Thank you for all the great submission to the…

Ever wanted to go on a Safari? Enjoy these exotic places from trips of your fellow Jalbumers:    Wildlife by yalcn My beloved Lions by vahine Animals in sepia by  pikasso Safari South Africa by Bert van Elten Explore more animal photography in these Jalbum groups: The ZooBirdsHorsesDogs

Making your Jalbum home page stand out is easy. On your Settings tab you'll find stunning templates to choose from, but you can also make your own design. We've recently updated our Help section with a new tutorial how to customize your Jalbum home page. The tutorial shows you how to make something like this.…

I'm sure you're familiar with our wonderful blog badge. It lets you display a nice looking list of your albums in any blog. Did you know that the same works for albums you Liked? Check out your "Likes" tab on your Jalbum home page. On top of the list of albums you'll find a button…

  We are very happy about how the Online version of Jalbum has been received since the launch. Thank you for all the encouraging words and donations! We are already working on improvements from the feedback you’re sending our way. Currently there are 12 skins with a total of about 100 different styles you can…

  BIG NEWS. Today, we're very happy to announce the first browser-based version of the Jalbum application! That's right – Online Jalbum brings the power of our desktop version straight into your browser! The main goal of Online Jalbum is ease of use. We hope that the online version will be an easy way to…

  We're adding more joy to the Holiday festivities by offering 15% off on Jalbum accounts! Now is the time to get more storage and more album home page customization for your precious photos. Still looking for X-mas presents? Give the fun of Jalbum. Upgrade here. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

 Photo album by Mike Mendoza   Photo album by avacado   Photo album by ptbonn   Photo album by snay1345  

  Low Depth of Field means that only a small "sliver" of the picture will be in focus, and the remaining parts of the picture space will be softly out-of-focus. This is very helpful for People photography, as long as the point of focus is always the subjects eyes. There are two main ways to…

  Our friends at Blurb want to help you avoid the rush by getting your photo books made early. Blurb is giving Jalbum users free shipping on any order of up to FIVE books.* That’s free shipping on not one book, not two books, but five books of any size and page count! Simply enter…

  We're overwhelmed by the amount of nice people offering their help to beta test our next big project called Camelot. The great number of people who sent us a note to knight@jalbum.net will receive an e-mail with instructions soon. We're aiming to get in touch within a couple of weeks. At this point the…

Do you want to be our knight in shining armor? We have have started to build the next big project for Jalbum – code name Camelot! So far we can’t tell you much other than it will blow your socks off! We are going to open up Camelot for beta testing soon and we'd love…

The brand new Photojojo book   The other day I stumbled upon Photojojo, a newsletter and shop full with crazy and fun photo projects and DIY ideas. Their site and newsletter is jammed with photo tips, tricks, advice, projects and ideas. A real boost of inspiration! They've recently released a book (see pic above) where…

  Happenings is a new skin from our pixel magician Laza, the father of the mighty Chameleon skin. The skin has different themes for different kinds of events. The initial release comes with themes for Weddings, Parties and Baby albums. Laza intends to add more themes for other type of events. It's a great way…

You can use your Jalbum albums in many ways. Publish them to your Jalbum account and share them with the community, share them on Twitter or Facebook, or in blogs. Here are a few examples: The Jalbum blog badge. Above your albums on your home page, you'll find a button that says "Share albums in…

  We love to see creativity flow. That is usually where the most innovative solutions appear and the most appealing trends emerge. In the true spirit of Jalbum we’ve created a way for you to customize your home page under the Settings tab. Here's a brief tutorial on how to use the new features. Upload…

Whenever someone clicks the "Like" button on your album, he or she will appear in the list of "People who likes your album" on your home page. They will automatically subscribe to updates for that album. Now, when we first released the new site, there was no option to show a list of all of…

Today is a great day for Jalbumers! After months of coding, testing and intense listening to user requests we are now launching a brand new version of the Jalbum.net site. This includes all the user pages, so if you have a Jalbum account you are in for a treat. If your don't – get your…

There is a lot of action at the Jalbum office. We are almost ready to launch the new site and are testing it like crazy right now. We have invited our dear forum admins in the testing phase to get some fresh eyes on the creation. Their input has been very valuable to us and…

Looking at the most popular albums right now, I'm noticing a lot of Macro photography. Check out these albums as the photographers invite us to explore the world in new (tiny) perspectives. Album by nigesu00 Album by Ian David Soar Album by Patrik Nilsson  

  Right now the site twitter is down. Rumors say that Facebook is having problems too. It's a massive hysteria out there and we hope nothing bad happened. We love Twitter and hope it's back soon. Follow the news on Techcrunch, Mashable or silicon alley insider, or watch some albums here Jalbum albums instead.  …

We've made an update to the "About" widget. It now displays more info about you (the photographer) and the album. The About widget is an easy way for you to give your visitors more background about what they are viewing. Here's the info that the About widget displays: – User name / Name– Location– Link…

It's always fun to go to the Zoo. In the northern part of the world, it's even more fun to go during the summer when they let the animals outdoors. See how much fun these Jalbumers had on their visits:   Album by: johNson-iNsomnia   Album by lkshieldsphotos   Album by divebee66   Album by…

"Faces" by Iprevost   "People" by huy   "People" by yumi-la   Album by amirweiz  

Enjoy the world under water with these great Jalbums: Album by timso Album by jamesmallard Album by Palantar Album by RBA Album by gcolin

  When photographers first learn about compositional guidelines, such as the rule of thirds, they are often subconsciously bound by these parameters. One thing to keep in mind is that if an image is symmetrical, or has a triangular appearance to it, a centered composition often works best. For the above image, if the door…

    PhotoBox is the latest and greatest skin from our code ninja Kristoffer. The skin has a nice feature where image thumbnails zoom and float gracefully when touched by the mouse pointer. It's a great way to preview images before watching the full blown photo. Have a look at this sample album. PhotoBox works…

Once again we've survived the long and dark winter! At least, that's how we feel in Sweden. Say good-bye to long shutter speed night shots and hello to sunny flower shots 🙂 This calls for celebration: Spring sale on Jalbum accounts! Take this opportunity to prepare your Jalbum account with more space for the summer…

 Photo album by Lighthouse "Pictures from my last Travel thru Japan. The Galerie is made with Banana." Photo album by hochyi "Hochyi and Bomy's travel in Japan"  Photo album by Chris Frost "Pictures taken by my grandfather in Japan in 1907 and an account of his time in Japan. Use the clickable pictures to get…

In a previous blog post we told you about the project Jalbum Blog badge (beta) we are working on. It allows bloggers to place a widget in the sidebar of their blog that automatically updates with thumbnails to each album published with Jalbum. We're still keeping it in beta to test things out and to…

Photo album by: ShinobiPictures   Photo album by: lorddavidnelson   Photo album by: sapanahuja Photo album by: cjh4y

We're intrigued by the diversity of albums being published with Jalbum. The Jalbum format being a collection of photos in a "photo album" rather than individual photos seem to inspire a lot of people to tell a story with their pictures. It makes exploring Jalbum albums interesting and a lot of fun! Here are a…

We've seen a massive growth in the number of sign ups to our site since the launch of Jalbum Widgets and the latest usability changes made to Jalbum software. It's exciting to see people finding Jalbum from all corners of the world. To visually display the geographical spread of the Jalbum community, we've made an…

User dragkhar recently initiated a theme shoot on the subject Architecture. We're seeing a lot of albums on that theme being published from all corners of the world. It's interesting to see the different interpretations of the theme, have a look:   Album by: strangeste   Album by: alan927   Album by: gbenic   Album…

We get a lot of requests from bloggers who want to integrate their Jalbum albums into blogs. Jalbum is appreciated by bloggers as they can customize photo albums to fit the look and feel of the blog and also for being able to publish it to their own domain. We've already made it easy to…

Photographing building exteriors is both easy and difficult. The easy part is finding subject matter . . . the difficult part is composing in a way that is both dynamic and original. The above image is a nice mixture of old and new architecture, and the vertical lines of both structures compliment each other. As…

Have you checked out the sharing options available for yours (and other users) albums? On all user "Album" pages there is a Share button on the right hand side of the album thumb. See user rsagebin's Album page as an example:     Clicking the Share button makes the share options appear:   As you…

  User jboal shows how well Jalbum can be used to tell a story. In his album Inauguration he illustrates how he experienced the presidential inauguration day, the 20th of January. Each photo has a narrative description (caption) which makes it interesting to follow. He takes us with him as he walks to the Capital…

We are very happy to see all the kind words being written about Jalbum in different blogs, newspapers and software sites. Here are a few of the recently found articles:     Easily create a professional web photo album with Jalbum "Have you ever wished that you can create a beautiful online photo album and…

Our first third party Widget is called Name Tagger, and was created by Polar Rose. It helps you quickly name all the people in your album with the help of Face Detection and Face Recognition. Here is walkthrough of how this works: After enabling the Polar Rose widget, it will start showing up in the…

  This morning started out great as I stumbled upon an article in PC World about Jalbum:  Create Gorgeous Galleries with Jalbum I was very pleased to read the kind words from writer Ian Harac: "Jalbum is an easy-to-use freebie which can take folders of images on your hard disk and turn them into a…

There are a lot of talented artists who display their paintings with Jalbum albums. Here are a few of these galleries:  Jalbum by rossabbott   Jalbum by deMim   Jalbum by genev   Jalbum by risuvan-sviat  

    Jalbum has been free since 2002. Thanks to the tremendous support from the community we are able to keep it that way. Your contributions help us improve Jalbum and keep it free for everyone! Now when you sign in before donating you will get a heart badge next to your profile picture, showing…

    Our friends over at Polar Rose have made a major update to their Name Tagger Widget. They have made it a lot easier to tag people in albums by matching faces, which means that you can tag one person who appears in many photos in one go! Sounds pretty neat huh? Well, here's…

I stumbled across a site/blog ran by Chris Pirillo (chris.pirillo.com) who's lifecasting to tens of thousands of viewers, and is also a top subscribed partner on YouTube. I was delighted to find that he recently discovered Jalbum and shared his experience with his audience in this video. Thanks for the kudos Chris!  

Since we released Jalbum 8.1 and Widgets a couple of days ago, it's been exciting to see all new and old users trying out Widgets. Being able to build converstions around images and give feedback have been on top of the Jalbum wish-list for a lot of us. As always it's great to see the…

  We have been running Jalbum 8.1 in beta mode for quite some time now to test the new Jalbum Widgets. Finally we are ready to officially launch this baby! With the release of Jalbum Widgets, you can for the first time incorporate face detection and tagging, build conversations around images, monitor popularity and enable…

  Jalbum user chero is sharing her fantastic trip to South Georgia, an Antarctic island. The trip starts from Mar del Plata on the coast of Argentina where you board the ship Ushuaia. The expedition lasts for 16 days and takes you to South Georgia, home of penguins, seals, sea elephants and other exotic animals.…

Today skin developer alt released updates to all his immensely popular flash skins. The updates make these five skins compatible with the upcoming release of Jalbum 8.1 and Widgets. If you haven't tried these skins out, it's about time. I can garantee that you'll impress your friends!  Skin: PostcardViewer Skin: PageFlip   Skin: Autoviewer  …

We're building a whole new help section for the site. The aim is to provide a help center that is easy to navigate so you can find answers to your Jalbum questions quickly. We are also putting together some video tutorials to go along with that. You'll see the first attempt below called "Publish your…

No, I'm not referring to bugs on our site (are there any?). Here are some Jalbums which bring us close to some spectacular, and sometimes scary bugs: Jalbum by Konia2007 Jalbum by Kya   Jalbum by gertjan   Jalbum by jeromego  

  Jalbum by BittenByAZebra: "These are some images that I captured during election night 2008 in Times Square and Rockefeller Center."  

Autumn is here which is appearent while browsing Jalbum albums. Here are a few Jalbums showing the off the beautiful colors of the season:  Jalbum by enviZioning   Jalbum by Jedermann    Jalbum by wayfarerr   Jalbum by EarlyOut   Jalbum by dgrd1701

Today, skin developer EarlyOut released the next generation of his popular skin Matrix 4.0. The Matrix skin provides an easy to use interface, making it a delightful experience to browse through your photos. Matrix is ram-packed with features, here are some of the highlights in version 4: SlideshowClick the Play button, sit back and enjoy…

Here are some fantastic black and white Jalbums that caught the attention today:  Jalbum "My favorite shots" by Greg Benic Jalbum by stephanedescure Jalbum by Svein-Jorgen Wiken Jalbum by my-place  

There's no shortage of interesting Jalbums to explore in our Explore section. Here are three Jalbums we've noticed in the featured albums:  Jalbum by: MisterMattias  Jalbum by: discordia Jalbum by: homme  

It’s day one here at the web conference Future of web apps in London. Carl and me headed of to the conference hall ExCel at 8.30. Today we have listened to brilliant speeches around technology and how great services work. Everybody from small startups in San Francisco and the UK to corporations and media companies…

If you have come from a photography school, or have been part of a photography organization that judges your photos, you may have lingering phobias of improperly composing your photographs (due to the heavy hand that is about to "correct" you!). When it comes to fine art photography, there is no need to follow the…

  The enormous exhibition of professional photographers called Visual Gallery is a must for photography suckers like us. The Visual Gallery displays the work of internationally known photographers and award-winning photo artists. One of the most popular acts at this year's exhibition is the work by the actor and director Dennis Hopper. Before becoming a…

  They are everywhere and everyone seem to be making them. Digital photo frames were introduced in 2006 but it's this year when you'll likely see them populate your friends book shelves. The digital photo frame is the photo gadget at Photokina 2008. Now, these frames don't make us jump up and down. However, when…

  The world of photo enthusiasts are meeting up in Cologne, Germany this week for the bianual photo excibition Photokina 2008. Being the largest photo industry event in the world, it gathers more than 1500 companies from 45 countries to present their latest products and services. Among 160,000 other visitors, Jalbum reps Anders and myself…

If you are selling (or hope to soon be selling) your travel photos to the publishing world, don’t forget images that also represent the idea of travel. Depending on flight connections, you can be sitting around in an airport for hours doing nothing. Why not try to get some candid shots that show movement, and…

It’s so much fun browsing Jalbum albums and to explore different interests, talents and teqniques. Check out the album from user flygfoto who’s taking photos with the help of a radio controlled helicopter!   Photo album by: flygfoto  Photo album by: flygfoto

If for any reason you would like to replicate the look of early color film, and are using Photoshop, here are a few tips: 1. Dress your subject in appropriately aged clothing.2. Find an interior that is difficult to date (the era . . . not dinner and a movie)3. Create a vertical composition. In…

Long time Jalbum supporter and skin developer Armond has done a tremendous contribution to the Jalbum community. This time he is calling for your help as he and his family are going through hard times. We are all with you Armond. These are his words: Dear JAlbum Lovers, This is Armond, author of BluPlusPlus skin,…

We’ve had a "Beta" tag stuck to the Jalbum logo on the site for a while to indicate that our new community site is still in a very early stage. We are far from where we want to take this site but we’ve made some improvements and decided to change the tag to "Better" 🙂…

 The Jalbum community is full of talent, hobby enthusiasts, aspiring artists, professionals and world class photographers.  Eric von Lockhart is a world famous photographer who’s celebrity photos include: Beyoncé, Mary J Blidge, Alicia Keys and Christina Milian. He has been featured on Hollywood Access, CNN and MTV and recieved numerous awards. We are very happy…

If you are a photographer who has amassed a large collection of good quality images, you may want to send a portfolio submission to a stock photography agency. It is the agent’s job to market your images for you, which frees up more time for you to photograph. Here are a few things to keep…

Alan927 has updated the Jalbum Skin Viewer. Skins that require Flash now have a black "F" icon next to them and Javascript skins have a red "J" (both with alt and title text in case you mouseover). If you’re looking for a skin specifically made in Flash, HTML or Javascript, it’s easier than ever to…

Portrait albums from the featured albums:  Photo album by: momentum  Photo album by: fredricks Photo album by: hansslegers

A lot of professional web sites use Jalbum to display their photo albums, it’s easy to customize the album to fit with the rest of the site. Here’s a German travel agency called Colibri Hotels who arranges adventure trips to exotic places like Antarctica. Have a look at these pictures from this spectacular place on…

We’re stunned by the amount of talented photographers in the Jalbum community. Have a look at our featured album section or most favored albums and see for yourself! There is a never ending range of themes, presentations and techniques. Here are three albums taken with the High Dynamic Range technique:  Photo album by: ridder –…

The lack of a photo studio may be keeping you from trying your hand at fashion photography. Many fashion photographers begin by photographing outdoors, which can produce great results with the right background. There seems to always be young men or women who would gladly trade modeling for portfolio photos; you get a free model,…

Last week David and Carl were in London and had the chance to meet up with MarkE, who’s a long time dedicated Jalbum supporter. Mark has helped thousands of Jalbum users over the years, so it was a true pleasure to swing some beers with him and share some Jalbum experiences. See you in Stockholm…

Can’t decide what skin to use for your album? The skin section is filled with creative ways of presenting your photos built by the Jalbum community. Now, we have tried to make it easy for you to search and find the perfect skin by presenting skins in different lists. However, we haven’t had a convenient…

We’re seeing more and more blogs writing about Jalbum, which is wonderful. Thanks to all of you who are spreading the word about Jalbum, it means a lot to us. Here are two recent articles from a couple of nice sites: The article is called: Jalbum ups the Ante. Thanks for the write up Liz! …

We have received tremendous feedback since we started the Jalbum hosting in October last year, and we’re (read: Johan) working on improving the hosting every day. As we started out, we chose to keep the hosting accounts to a separate domain (myjalbum.net). However, we have noticed that this causes some confusion and we’ve decided to…

The Jalbum software runs on all major operating systems including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris etc. Wanna see how it looks like on Ubuntu? An enthusastic user, Svend Nielsen, has made a video showing Jalbum on Ubuntu. Thanks for sharing Svend 🙂      

It makes our eyes wet to read the wonderful words from the fine people over at Download.com 🙂 If the article is not present on the front page of Download.com when you read this, here is the full article. Thanks for the write up! 

We are very proud to present the next generation of the Jalbum software: Jalbum 8.  The new version is packed with goodies, just waiting for you to be explored. Here are a few of the new features: User interface now completely supports drag and drop. Arrange files and folders between folders too New image editor…

Our friends at Blurb recently introduced a new book format. ImageWrap is a new hardcover book option that lets you print text and images directly on the front and back of your books, each area will wrap smoothly over the edge of your book. ImageWrap books also feature a durable matte finish. They’re beautiful. Take me…

We have made it easier to share your own or your favorite albums on other websites and social networks like Facebook, Digg and Myspace. The ”Share” button is available next to your Albums and Favorites at jalbum.net.

We have received a lot of requests for search on jalbum.net. We have now added a smooth search function to the site to help you find interesting albums. You are able to search for both albums and users. It has never been easier to find new inspiration for your own photography as well as enjoying…

We have made it much easier to connect with other Jalbum users through a brand new Explore section! Here you can browse users by their profile pictures, most favored albums of the community, featured albums and much more. If you see something you like, tell the person behind the camera lens. Post a message on…

The fantastic skin developers are busy creating new skins and updating existing ones. There are so many fun ways to present your photos, here are some skins you just have to download: Boxer by Alan927 A great example of high usability. Click on photos to have them slide out to full size. A combination of…

Have you tried out our printing partner Blurb? Blurb turns your favorite photos into a professional looking, customized photo book. Photo books are great for storing your family vacation photos, maintaining a portfolio of your artwork, creating a recipe book… the possibilities are endless. To spice up the inspiration, our friends over at Blurb announces…

 I was excited to stumble upon another great blog post about Jalbum yesterday on www.canonblogger.com. In this blog Jason Anderson writes about photography tips, tricks and tutorials. What makes the blog post really fun is that Jason has made an extensive video tutorial on how to use Jalbum. Thanks for the write up 🙂  Check…

We have been busy building new features to make it even easier to share albums and participate in the community. It is now simple for you to pick any image as thumbnail image to represent your album. When you add an album by URL on your albums page, click the "choose image" link to see…

Shutterbug is one of the leading magazines in the US (and the world) for advanced amateur, semipro and professional photographers. We were happy to find out that they just wrote a nice article and mini toturial on Jalbum. Thanks for the write up Shutterbug!  Wanna read the article?  

We have received a lot of feedback on the new site, which is really great! One of the things was that the top navigation was missing on the landing page of Jalbum.net. So we changed that, along with a new design that should make it clearer what Jalbum is all about. It also brings your…

  Dear fellow developers, we know you have missed the developer information since the launch of the new site. Now, it gives us great pleasure to introduce the new Developer center at jalbum.net. It will be an oasis for all the Jalbum developers and a place where we will gather articles, tutorials and lot’s of…

Today we launch the brand new Jalbum.net! We have been working on it for a few months now and we are really anxious to get it out to you. In 2007 we noticed that a lot of you who are using the Jalbum software wanted to share your wonderful album creations with the rest of the…

Sun flare is a phenomenon where direct sunlight comes into contact with the many pieces of glass in your lens, and then creates mostly unwanted flares and reflections in your photographs. The way to avoid sun flare is to use your lens’s hood, or simply place your hand in front and to the side of…