Category: jAlbum news

It’s sound human nature to avoid doing repetitive tasks. jAlbum was once developed as I didn’t want to manually prepare 120 images for the web and create the needed HTML. Even if jAlbum has a good number of batch processing features, you may find yourself doing manual repetitive work, for instance deleting 1-star images, looking…

In the past 18 years we have never stopped improving jAlbum. The last two years are no exceptions. Here we present what we think are the top 8 reasons to update jAlbum based on recent improvements. 1 Be compatible The world around us is changing, so are web standards and the use of mobile devices.…

18 years have passed since we first released jAlbum 1.0. We've now reached v20. Not that many software titles stay around for so many years so we're proud that jAlbum is still relevant, and now it's better than ever. There are about a dozen changes in this release, but here I'll focus on the top…

In the shadow of our big desktop client is our less known (and used) online jAlbum, which is a web based and simplified version of jAlbum that our Premium and Power storage customers can use. It's great when you want to create an album and don't have access to your main computer. It has been…

I was recently interviewed by web software and services review site WebsitePlanet.com. If you're curious about what keeps a founder like me going after so many years with jAlbum (started in 2002) and my views on the trends and risks in this industry, you'll find this interview interesting. I'll promise that reading it will give…

I'm delighted to tell you about the news for our new jAlbum 19 release. The highlights consists of a significantly improved search bar and an embedded spell checker. This is naturally a free update for you who are on a current support & update plan (sign in here or see jAlbum Help for your status). For…

The recently released jAlbum 18.4 sports a completely rewritten web server under the hood (Jetty 9). Historically this web server has only been used to share galleries straight from your computer (See Tools->Share), something only a few users use, but it now also serves previews to both jAlbum's embedded web browser and any external web…

We've just added search to jAlbum! Now you can type your way to the right setting while using jAlbum instead of browsing though complex user interface panels in your hunt for that font size or color setting.   What would internet be without Google? We'd have to remember a ton of pages and navigation paths…

jAlbum 18 has just been released. The main improvements in this version is a faster album uploader and the new Project Gallery – the subject for this blog post. With active regular use of jAlbum over some time you end up with a huge amount of album projects. Finding the right one isn't always easy.…

Present your best images. The new review mode of jAlbum 17 helps you to quickly compare images side by side, zoom, tag and rate them.  Taking photos is only part of the work. One easily ends up with hundreds of images. Now comes the challenging part wading through this pile in search of the best…

jAlbum has been reviewed in "Top 10 Website Hosting", a review site dedicated to guiding you to reliable hosting solutions founded by people tired of fake reviews. Read what they have to say about jAlbum and our hosting solution in this article.

The newly released jAlbum 16.2 comes with two new handy improvements, both a result of requests from you. If you're missing something, let us know! Adjust camera date jAlbum now has a function to adjust the EXIF camera date of JPEG images (i.e. the "date taken/original" date). The function works on both individual images and…

jAlbum 16.1 has an interesting new folder linking behavior called "Mirror content". What "Mirror content" does is to create a folder tree mirroring the structure of the added folder, just like when you copy a folder to jAlbum, but the mirrored tree is filled with file links to the contents of the added folder instead…

Oiled-up and shiny! “Don’t keep adding features I don’t need. Fix the annoying issues instead!” Luckily such user comments are rare, perhaps because we put as much energy into fixing things as to developing new stuff. The new v16 is no exception. It actually focuses on fixes. Just like your car needs service every now…

The jAlbum family of skins has got a new member – Zigzag. This skin has a modern, responsive and clean design suitable not only to create galleries, but whole sites. We think Zigzag will be ideal for many smaller web sites presenting the works of not just photographers, but any smaller business, organization or things…

We're proud to tell that jAlbum 15 has been awarded Editor's Pick in Informer.com – one of the leading software catalogues today. jAlbum's flexibility, ease of use and high quality result were the main factors that motivated their top rating. Read full review.      

PresentingjAlbum 15 Get slim with jAlbum 15! Get jAlbum 15 » Release notes → Now in Italian! jAlbum 15 now speaks Italian too. Thank you Filippo Bottega for providing this! I’m proud to introduce jAlbum 15 to you. jAlbum 15 offers a smorgasbord of improvements from the inside out. It’s hard to pinpoint one specific…

jAlbum 14 is here! After a long wait, we’re proud to announce the availability of jAlbum 14 – our most important update in two years. If you have an active support & update plan, this is a free update too! Here are some exciting highlights. As always you find the full list in our release…

Hi, Are you an old time jAlbum user and haven’t decided to go for the current jAlbum version? We’ve made improvements in many areas since jAlbum 11 so I really feel you should give the current jAlbum a try. If you renew your license you’re guaranteed to get any future updates within 12 months for…

In jAlbum 13.7 we've introduced support for HiDPI images (See Settings->Images). By activating this option your images will look much sharper on HiDPI screens like those found on modern mobile phones and tablets. HiDPI screens are screens that have far smaller pixels than ordinary computer screens so they pack more "dots per inch" than ordinary…

I was recently interviewed in depth by the people at HostingAdvice.com. HostingAdvice has been around since the 90's and specialize in testing and reviewing hosting services and giving advice on site building tools and such. They also run tutorials on various topics that relates to running web sites. A great resource to check out. In…

jAlbum is appreciated for its ability to manage huge amounts of images. Its Explorer-like user interface, support for deep folder hierarchies and flexible image organizer probably contributes to this. We've now fitted jAlbum with an elegant zooming ability. Zoom in gradually to get a better detailed view of each image without having to leave the…

According to the increasing use of mobile devices, jAlbum raised its number of responsive designed skins lately. One of the new responsive skins is "Responsive", which focuses on a responsive design as well as an easy way to embed the skin into other websites.   What is responsive design? Responsive design adjusts the size of…

After a long wait, we’re proud to present jAlbum 13 to you. In this blog we’re going to talk about two improvements that stand out: Collaborative albums Powerful file organizer Fair licenses Before moving more into these improvements, let’s first mention the license terms: As promised in our blog post from Feb 25, we have…

Bo Brandsborg loves travel and photography – and has created hundreds of truly amazing photo albums telling the story from many different places around the world. – You take amazing photos. What got you into photography?Thank you very much. I got bit by the travel bug in the mid 90'es – so I bought my…

Haven't we all been there, buying the new cool camera, mobile phone or graphics card just to realize it's not the latest and greatest a month thereafter? It's naturally inevitable that technology moves forward, but the feeling of just missing a new release is annoying. The same holds for software licenses. At jAlbum, we're now…

We’d like to summarize some improvements made lately with the release of jAlbum 12.3 and 12.4. We hope you find that some of the things mentioned here justifies an update. Just works better In the recent months several improvements has been made to making jAlbum working as smoothly as possible, this includes minimizing RAM memory…

After a rather long break we finally have jAlbum 12.2 out. I’d like to share some of the highlights with you. As always you’ll find the full list of enhancements in our release notes. New full screen slide show jAlbum has a rewritten full screen slide show that simplifies the process of approving images. The…

I guess you've all seen theme images that gets cropped like this in the Turtle skin: Now, we've made a plugin for jAlbum 12.1 and onwards that helps you set the desired crop focus, so your theme images or folder thumbnails will look like this instead: Get the plugin here, then right click an image…

We’re excited to tell you about the improvements that have been added to the long-awaited v12 release of our desktop software. It’s been a year since the last major release, where we added support for 164 video formats. This version focuses on improving the user experience: It is faster than ever, including both the user…

We’re excited to tell you about the improvements that have been added to the long-awaited v12 release of our desktop software. It’s been a year since the last major release, where we added support for 164 video formats. This version focuses on improving the user experience: It is faster than ever, including both the user…

  Eddie Clayton runs a successful business as a pro photographer. -> Take a look at his photography (http://www.eddieclaytonphoto.com) and you'll understand why the word successful is in the above sentence. Eddie is a new jAlbum user, but quite familiar with photo and website services. How did you get in contact with jAlbum?I have created…

Interview with Peter Reijners and his world of amazing photography. Jason: So tell me a little bit about yourself. Peter: I’m Peter Reijners, 46 years old and live in Roermond in the Netherlands. I've always admired the beautiful flora and fauna around us. Due to the busy life people often do not have the ability…

  We are honored – jAlbum featured on the cover of Shutterbug magazine including a 3 page article (test report) inside.  Shutterbug is one of the leading photo magazines in the United States. George Schaub, Shutterbug's Editorial Director, was very nice and even wrote up a short summary for this blog post: "Shutterbug is written…

I'm excited to tell you that we've opened up a marketplace for you where you can offer your images for sale with great ease. Classic stock photo marketplaces require you to pass a frustrating manual approval barrier. Any photographer that has experience of being rejected knows this frustration. Our partner Mostphotos has a new take…

It happens quite often. You're on holiday or some other happening with family or friends and everyone takes photos with their own camera or mobile. Now you want to create a nice web album containing all the images from everyone's camera… How do you go about it? Easy (or it is now)! Use jAlbum and…

 Interview with photographer Scotty Robson who hopped off the ever spinning corporate wheel and decided to start his own business in professional photography…  (www.scottyrobson.co.uk) Jason: So tell me a little bit about yourself. ? Scotty: I turned 40 years old this year and I had an epiphany – some may call it a mid-life crisis,…

Today, most of us share images on social media. But the images you share are probably only about 1% of all the photos you take with your mobile, pad and digital camera. What are you doing with the other 99% of your images that you don't share? This is where jAlbum comes in, to get…

This is for all jAlbum users and customers – everyone can earn money by using jAlbum. I'm sure you've all heard it before: Earn lots of money with virtually no effort.In my mind there is no such thing as a ”free lunch”. You have to work. It's that simple. In other words, this is not…

Let us start with a simple competitor analysis.We, jAlbum, are competing on a market dominated by giants: Google's Picasa, Yahoo's Flickr, and Facebook. Sure, we have small and medium sized competitors as well, but the market is dominated by these giants. What about the price tag on the products and services that these giants offer?–…

Let's move back to the years 2002-2004. No Facebook. No Flickr. No Instagram. No Pinterest.But guess what, there was something called jAlbum and a little green shy frog called Dor. In fact, jAlbum was one of the most used solutions for creating photo websites and for sharing photos. Back then jAlbum was hyped and millions…

In this tutorial photographer Ted Lansing illustrates how to use jAlbum to create professional Web galleries for photographers. Based on the design and implementation of www.tedlansingphotography.com the tutorial describes the concept and steps to integrate jAlbum galleries into an existing site. Don't be overwhelmed by the length of this tutorial. It is kept at a…

This days everybody and his grandma goes to cloud. I must admit I'm scared off this move considering my photo taking habits – you know, I usually take some 20 thousand photos every year in RAW format. It's not only about the price, but I feel my photos safer in my own hands. So I…

When using jAlbum you should feel that you're in full control of how your images are managed. Some software titles that handle images give me gray hair! This is because I don't know what they are doing to my images – some just start indexing my hard-drive collecting all the images. Hey, I didn't ask…

Dealing with digital photo albums on the web you’ll see two basically different models. The “traditional” – one image per HTML page – and the “dynamic”, which changes the images on the same HTML page upon user interaction, utilizing Javascript. Sounds like a subtle technical detail but it has far reaching consequences. Although this applies…

It is now as easy to make video galleries as image galleries. jAlbum 11 can adopt over 160 video formats for the web – re-encode, compress, scale rotate and trim your videos! Videos – a natural next step A picture is great for story telling. Everyone know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand…

This post puts the spotlight on an often overlooked gem in jAlbum – the seach feature of the Turtle skin. Many people and organisations use jAlbum to present huge amounts of images, whether it is catalogues of vintage cars, handicraft or event images for the local sports club. It's not uncommon to see albums consisting…

Create your own HTML5 web gallery! You might have noticed how much the web pages has changed in the past years. Nicer, cleaner interfaces and web applications appeared all around the www that can adapt to any device. This huge leap in the evolution was made possible by the new web page standards, called HTML5…

Turtle's new Facebook commenting will not only add a handy commenting tool to your albums but it will manage all the community integration, posting to timeline, notifications, etc. – and thanks to Facebook's networking effect your albums can reach 100s of people in no time. Many users of Turtle, I guess, haven't even noticed the…

  View sample album Do you want to give your photos or albums a certain atmosphere? Then you could use jAlbums new "ArtyFilter" that can be added to jAlbum as a plugin. It includes 8 different filters that you can apply to your photos to give them an artistic style.   The ArtyFilters use a…

Do you often take photos that have bad contrast, brightness and/or colors? Then when you want to make your albums, you do not know how to improve them? Here comes a solution. Now jAlbum has an "Auto Correction"-Tool that can be added to jAlbum as a plugin. You can apply auto correction to a whole…