Category: jAlbum news

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…

jAlbum 10.7 comes with a new plugin – a histogram. A histogram can assist you a lot with improving your images. Here’s first a short introduction to reading histograms.   General A histogram is a graphical representation of the tonal distribution of colors in a digital image. In general, our images have an RGB-Color mode…

You might’ve missed, but Turtle skin can be used to sell your photos or products too. To use this option you’ll need to hold a Pro license or a Power storage account with jAlbum. Although the payment is routed through Paypal or Google Checkout, your customers don’t need to be signed up with either of…

We just released jAlbum 10.4. It should perhaps have been labeled jAlbum 11 cause it's packed with improvements and important bug fixes, but most of the changes go under the hood, so we decided to stay at 10.4. There is actually only one change you can notice in the user interface (hint: right click an…

One of the most appreciated aspects of jAlbum is the ability to customize albums to fit your requirements. It is therefore important that we have a thriving skin developer community. These days it’s more common to see updates to a smaller set of album skins than to actually see new skins emerge. We believe this…

Happy new 2012 everyone! I hope you've had a relaxing Christmas vacation.  Yesterday we released jAlbum 10.3. The main improvements this time are as follows: More memory conservative Supports reading JPEG images in the CMYK color space Support for hidden sub albums Can generate seach engine friendly file names As always, you can see the…

I'm excited to tell you that we've been able to boost upload speed up to 10 times with the new jAlbum 10.2 release! This speed increase applies when uploading albums to external sites. (Uploads to our hosting service are already accelerated). The improvement is possible by uploading multiple files simultaneously. The exact speed gain depends…

Have you noticed that the “Photo book” button is back in jAlbum's toolbar? This time this button will let you produce printed photo books with far more customization options than we could offer last year. We've teamed up with Blurb – one of the leading photo book producers – to offer you an easy and…

You know, we are a small company – have no customer relations department somewhere in India – so we give support by ourselves in our spare time. It takes time, true, but it’s great to hear your thoughts about our work. Thanks for all the positive feedback – almost every – and the negative too.…

When we run our user survey this summer one conclusion we shouldn’t have surprised was that jAlbum is used by so many professionals. Yes, these times everyone and his grandma’ offers photo album creation and hosting at a certain level, still nothing came close to jAlbum’s flexibility and number of features. No wonder it became…

Going for a two digit version number calls for something out of the ordinary. With jAlbum 10 we belive we will meet your expectations with several improvements geared towards the needs of professionals. Let's go through some of the highlights. Read about all the improvements in our release notes. Full xmp metadata supportjAlbum 10 now…

Hi everyone, I like free. (Don't we all?) Since 2002, jAlbum has been free of charge for both commercial and non commercial use. We have charged for our storage, but not for our application. However, a majority of our users use jAlbum for their own sites and don't feel they need a jAlbum account. At…

Here at jAlbum we are always looking for interesting stories about how people use our services. This is how we came across Mr Urbano and the 591 Photography Blog. The blog hosts an impressive number of photographers and uses jAlbum as a tool to create amazing online photography exhibitions filled with the kind of high…

The new bundled skin Mr.Burns is all about showing your photos, nothing else. It provides a smooth and nice classical Ken Burns transition effect while playing the music of your choice. It’s also easy to embed the album anywhere as it will fit in virtually any dimension. Here’s a quick example First, if you are…

One of the key findings from our recent user survey was that a lot of you are having problems with finding a suitable skin for your albums. This gave us the motivation to finally do something that we have postponed for the last four years – a complete rewrite of the skins section of our…

The Turtle skin has been around for 2 years, became the default skin for jAlbum and the most used one as well. Even though once it represented the edge in web photo albums … … a lot has changed in the past 2 years The development of web technologies has shifted gears in the past…

Hello World! For years, our desktop software has been translated to 32 languages by helpful jAlbum users, but the jalbum.net site has sadly only been in English. Today this is changing, as we are releasing a multilingual version of the site! Thanks to the help of our wonderful users jalbum.net is now available in German,…

We are sorry to inform you that we have decided to discontinue the Breezebook product line. We are very proud of the quality of the Breezebook, but unfortunately sales haven't met our expectations. Instead we will now focus on the things that we do best, helping our users to create stunning photo album presentations for…

Skins extend the way jAlbum presents albums. They are as easy to install as double clicking a file. Now with jAlbum 9.4 we're introducing jAlbum Extensions that makes it as easy to extend jAlbum itself. Extensions have actually been around for quite some time (many parts of jAlbum are pre-bundled extensions), but it is not…

If you wish to apply a certain image effect to all images or thumbnails of an album, like grayscale, cropping or watermark, then you have two basic options: Using the "Edit mode" image filters or the "classic" image filters. Both options have interesting properties. Let's look into them: Edit mode image filters These image filters…

With jAlbum 9.3 we have made it easer to control who gets to know about your album updates and who gets to see your albums. Most people don't want to "tell the world" when they upload a family album and may have hesitated to "Publish" an album using jAlbum in the past. We hear you!…

We have started to outgrow the system we set up 2 years ago for storing your albums, so we decided to set up something new that can handle the ever increasing number of albums that get published to jalbum.net. We were looking for something that could reliably handle the new increased sizes of the Premium…

Today we are releasing a big update to the jalbum.net site. It's not big in the sense that there will be a lot of new features, or a high amount of bug fixes. Sure there will be a few bug fixes as well, but the real change is much more fundamental than that!   Twice…

March is in the books. Spring is coming along nicely all over the northern hemisphere, plants are sprouting and animals are coming out of their winter hides, and this is reflected in the albums submitted to our explore section. We celebrated this with a spring sale on our accounts – thank you everyone who took…

We are continuing to celebrate the coming of spring: This means spring sale on jAlbum accounts! This is a great opportunity to prepare your jAlbum account with more space for the summer season. You get 25% off the price on both Premium and Power accounts until April 1. With more space for your images, grab…

Today jAlbum community hero EarlyOut reached 15,000 posts in our support forum. An outstanding achievement! Over the years EarlyOut have helped thousands of users by answering questions about the jAlbum application and by very actively supporting his skins Matrix and MatrixSlide. A true community hero! We salute you!/Dor and the jAlbum team

(Photo by Turbobent) It's starting to look like winter is finally about to give in and spring is just around the corner. We are starting to see more and more spring albums in our Explore section, and this weekend user Schocos started a new group dedicated to spring photos! The new spring group is already…

February has come to an end. It's been a great month for jAlbum. We released a new version of our desktop application, introduced a new way to upload your photos with jAlbum Instant, and relaunched our blog. In addition to that thousands of great looking albums have been published. We really appreciate the diversity and…

Did you know that you can get rewarded for sharing the jAlbum experience with your friends? Well, it's true! For every friend that you invite you will get 50 MB of extra storage for your account (up to a limit of 500 MB). That means extra rooms for thousands of web sized photos! Inviting your…

We've just made a small but powerful tool to help you share your images on the web, and easier faster than ever. jAlbum Instant is the quick and accessible short-cut for updating existing albums or create new ones. No startup time. Low memory usage. Small download, just 1Mb. Lives only on the context menu –…

Our online album creator was recently updated with the addition of a new skin. This time the turn had come to Expo. The concept of the Expo skin is simple. By minimizing the number of disturbing elements in the gallery it keeps your photos in the center of attention. It's also one of few skins…

As I am writing this a snowstorm is roaring outside the jAlbum HQ. Furious cold winds are covering everything in white. Days like these it is very hard not to long for the sunny summer time. Fortunately there are other sides to the winter season as well. Beautiful sides. Therefore we have put together a…

  New design We felt that it was about time that our blog got a make over! The new blog design should better match the current look and feel of the rest of the site.   New bloggers You can expect more posts from several members of the jAlbum team! We want to use this…

Jalbum 8.13 (released today) aims at improving Jalbum as a backup and restore service for your images. As you face the upload confirmation dialog, there is now a new checkbox that lets you include high resolution images with your album.   These images are uploaded just after your album has been uploaded, so including high…

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…

 Jalbum 8.10 is out. The most noticeable addition in this version is that you can now view and edit image captions in Jalbum's thumbnail view as well as in the edit view. This means less clicking back and forth between view modes and better overview of your album! If you prefer the classic filename view…

Most albums made with Jalbum include a small credit notice about Jalbum and the skin used at the bottom of the web page. We think these credit links help album visitors discover us and the skin used. We see them as brand stamps, not ads. However, many of our professional users would prefer to present…

  After months of preparation, coding, tweaking and testing (thank you all testers!), we're proud to present the Jalbum Breezebook! Now you can make great looking photo books straight from your Jalbum albums and have them delivered to your door. We call it "Breeze" as making them takes a fraction of the time it usually…

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 18,000 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…

I was really happy to see the improvements made to v1.3 of the Turtle skin. Laza, the author, has made two cool improvements and an important bug fix. You can now add Facebook like and Sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, MySpace, StumbleUpon and Email. Also, the already good Google Maps integration just got…

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’re thrilled to announce that the kind people at Apple have given our first mobile app a big green stamp: APPROVED. The Jalbum iPhone App is now available in App Store! Jalbum on the iPhone includes many of the features you’re familiar with on our web site. Here are some highlights: Create stunning web photo…

  Forum supporter and skin developer extraordinaire EarlyOut has released another fantastic skin: MatrixSlide! This skin is a specialized subset of the Matrix skin. It does not produce a thumbnail page – visitors to the page are immediately placed in a slideshow of the enlarged images. It makes a very clean and sophisticated photo presentation,…

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?  …

Today is a very good day to try out a new skin. Switch a few skins and notice how well your photos interplay with the presentation format. Here are a few suggestions: Sports skinThis skin gives you a slick presentation for displaying photos of different sports events. There are different styles for Hockey, Running, Soccer…

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

Recently we passed an estimated 30 million photo albums published with Jalbum! It's a mind-boggling number and it really made us realize how far we have come since we started. When founder David Ekholm started this as a hobby project back in 2002 he never realized what this would grow into. Just look at this…

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.…

We are really enjoying all the activity around the new Jalbum Groups. You have done a fantastic job creating groups! Finding albums with common themes has never been easier! Here are a few of your groups that we have noticed: Architecture "For those who love taking pictures of architecture : urban landscapes, buildings, etc. Share…

  We're very excited to announce the launch of Jalbum Groups! Groups are a great way to share photo albums and discuss topics around a common theme. Groups can be about any imaginable subject, like Patterns, Trips to Asia or Macro. You can also make private groups for sharing albums with a group of friends,…

This Jalbum release is the first for years to contain a new default skin. The old classic skin Chameleon has had to give way for another animal, the Turtle! The Turtle skin comes from the same talented author that brought us Chameleon and the recently talked about Compact skin – Laza, so you can expect…

To be truthful, the Jalbum experience on Linux hasn't been up to date with what you'd expect from us. This has been due to a number of reasons: • The installer script was non-standard and didn't set up icons and file associations properly. Nor did it add Jalbum to the Applications menu of Ubuntu Linux.…

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…

This release includes several enhancements and bug fixes, requested by our community. Our non English speaking users will enjoy a translated image editing section. Mac users will notice that Jalbum interacts better with Finder. Skin developers will appreciate that making skins for Jalbum is now easier than ever. A skin can now easily set suitable…

Sports The Olympics are just around the corner. What could then be better than a skin that focuses on sports! This well polished newcomer has an initial set of styles for the Olympics, American football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, running and skiing. One unusual feature I found was the ability to add a background header…

  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…

By using JAlbum it's easy to present your own images and videos in a nice looking gallery on the web. However, embedding material from the Internet (as for example Youtube videos) in your album, is not yet natively supported by JAlbum. Thanks to JAlbum's rich application interface, skin developers may add this functionality to their…

It’s a popular hobby, and with the advent of digital cameras, it has become easier than ever for any aspirant to become a photographer. But photography as a hobby and photography as a profession are two completely different things, so if you want to go beyond just clicking all that catches your eye and make…

  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  

  Hi developer, Did you know you can improve and extend Jalbum by writing plugins for it? We provide an open Java based API for extending Jalbum. We have just released a number of plugins together with source code for you to use as inspiration for your plugins and to enable you to contribute to…

  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…

      Some users have asked us for a minimalistic way to present albums on their home page that doesn't include the Jalbum header and footer for site navigation. Many of you are professionals who use Jalbum to display your portfolio. We now have a "Portfolio mode" for you! To activate, sign into your page,…

 Album "Autumn" by mizzel Album "Autumn Glory" by enviZioning Album "Autumn Landscapes" by eyofj  

  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 mostly hanging at the Jalbum HQ here in dark Sweden, but now we've decided to attend one of the largest photo events, Photo Plus Expo in New York, next week. It is held in the "Jacob Javits Center", Manhattan. We will network as much as possible with the big guys (Canon, Nikon,…

  Are you good at web design? Do you want millions of users to see your design? Then you should become a Jalbum skin developer. Our software has been downloaded more that 5 million times, and over 24 million web albums are estimated to have been published with Jalbum to web sites all over the…

  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…

  From the bottom of our hearts – Thank you all Jalbumers! The new site has been deeply appreciated by the community. Thank you for all the love e-mails and flood of donations. It makes us feel that we are doing something good for you guys. The new features are really being used like crazy…

  There are many ways to connect with a fellow Jalbumer: the Jalbum forum, a user profile guestbook, an album comment, widget comment, a skin comment and… a personal message! The personal message is a powerful feature and the only form of communication where you may send private messages without broadcasting your voice to the…

  The new Jalbum.net site is all about making things easy and fun to work with. That's why we decided to change "Favorites" to "Likes". If you find an album interesting or inspiring you can show your appreciation by a simple click. You can "Like" an album when viewing it with our browsebar or by…

  Publishing your albums on jalbum.net is convenient but what if your audience is elsewhere? We added some features to help you share your album via email, blogs or other social websites like Facebook and Twitter. On your homepage you simply hover the mouse over a thumbnail image and loads of sharing options will be…

  I'm a happy guy these days. We have a brand new site up and running and Jalbum 8.4, our application, is just finally released. More convenient Do you know what is the most asked question I get? It's "How do I delete a published album?". You can now delete published albums via our site…

  It might seem strange to dedicate an entire blog post on how to remove your albums from your account. Well, we've received tons of support questions on how to remove albums. It has obviously been too complicated to delete albums. Up until now, you had to manually remove the files by opening the publish…

We're on a roll in the Jalbum HQ. We have a brand new site up and running and Jalbum 8.4, our application, is just around the corner now. We are basically just awaiting translations from our wonderful translators around the globe. The new version is a lot more convenient to work with. We'll tell you…

  There are some photos that you want to show everybody and there are some photos (read: bachelor party) you want to display for a limited group of spectators. Fortunately, Jalbum let’s you choose your crowd. Edit your album settings by moving your mouse over one of your album thumbnails and click “Edit album”. Under…

In the new website layout we have merged your community profile and album hosting pages into a single customizable album home page. One page to rule them all. The new customizable homepage is the crown jewel in our new site release. You are now able to display more information about yourself and your photography: –…

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  

Congratulations all Canon camera owners. You are the leading majority of all Jalbum users when it comes to using your camera. A couple of months ago we decided to do a little data-crunching project to investigate what kind of cameras we as a community prefer. We crunched all the albums on our servers and extracted…