We’ve made numerous improvements to jAlbum in the last few years. To save you time, here’s a condensed summary of the top 3 reasons to upgrade to jAlbum 37 based on improvements made the last two years alone. Before proceeding, let me say that jAlbum is more relevant than ever, given the turbulent political times we live in today, as we offer truly independent photo sharing. Don’t rely on a handful of (US-based) gigantic cloud services for your digital life. Don’t even rely on us. With jAlbum, you don’t need to rely on any single IT source.
1. End user experience
Ultimately, it’s about the end user experience. Your images and videos deserve the best presentation possible across all devices. Our modern skins – Plain, Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Story, Lizard – offer a superior user experience, especially on mobile devices. Mobile users expect to be able to pinch and zoom into galleries. Now they can. Visitors expect a sleek, modern design that focuses on your images. Now they get that.
2. User experience
It should be pleasant to use jAlbum as well. We’ve made improvements in several areas, for instance:
- You can now quickly and easily add images and videos straight from your phone
- jAlbum’s Explorer view (the thumbnail view) has undergone several improvements like improved keyboard navigation, select-as-you-type, history navigation, and sharper thumbnails.
- The browser engine used for previews has been changed to a “Chromium” based engine. What you see now is really what you get.
- Projects can be grouped into project groups. Perfect if you’re managing multiple projects
- The settings window has had a re-layout to make options more intuitive
- The updated MultiMaker allows you to easily change skin, style, or settings for multiple projects.
- Image ordering has been made even more flexible with the ability to order selected groups and order by file type
- jAlbum has new tools to back up and restore projects easily
3. Performance
| ◼ | JPEG load |
| ◼ | JPEG save |
| ◼ | Image scaling |
| ◼ | Image tool processing |
| ◼ | Page processing |
jAlbum 37 introduced several significant performance enhancements, and v37.1 continued along that path. How about this:
- 3.5x faster JPEG image loads
- 2.4x faster JPEG image saves
- 1.8x faster image scaling (Smooth – Standard)
- Up to 2.7x faster image tool processing (Brightness, Saturation, and Gamma)
- Up to 1.7x faster page processing (Tiger skin, “slide pages” on)
- Faster user interface responsiveness
- Twice as fast RAW processing
- Faster startup
Mac users that have moved to an Apple Silicon-based Mac can actually experience even higher speed boosts by updating from, say, jAlbum 28 to v37, enjoying the combined effects of native Apple Silicon support and the multiple speed enhancements jAlbum has had just the last two years.