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kilobravo

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Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 03:41
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Jeff, I owe you an apology. Until tonight and for whatever reason, I have always thought that you were Tiger's author and I say that with no offense to Laza. But my comment regarding the best skin ever was meant to be a compliment to you. I'm very sorry and I'm sure that probably hurt.

So I grabbed Mercury to have a looksee but Album/Settings still shows Tiger. Do I understand skin loading correctly..if I double click a skin file with JA open to an existing project, it will load that skin into only that project?

Thanks..
JeffTucker

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 04:08   in response to: kilobravo in response to: kilobravo
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Download and install Neptune. Now launch jAlbum. Choose Neptune from the list of skins on the lower left. Now add a few dozen images, give the test project a name, and make an album.

Don't expect the default settings to do exactly what you want every time. I choose defaults for what I consider the best quick results, but almost everything can be changed. Thumbnail image bounds, fixed shape thumbnails or not, page width, etc., etc. The options are endless. But they all work.

On any panel in the skin settings, the ? in the upper right corner will always take you to the user's manual page for those settings.

Advance warning: there are some things my skins just don't support, and never will. No shopping cart, no social media, no search function. The first two, because they're the Black Hole of Maintenance, and the third because that requires JSON-driven albums, which always seem to be buggy as hell. I won't do them.

When you open an existing project, it will always open it with the skin that it was saved with. And you don't want to start experimenting with choosing a different skin for a large, existing album. Always do your playing with a test project.
JeffTucker

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 04:24   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
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The full range:

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/skins/

Neptune is "modern thumbnails, lightbox slides."
Saturn is "traditional thumbnails, lightbox slides."
Mercury is "modern thumbnails, separate slide pages."
Jupiter is "traditional thumbnails, separate slide pages."

The others are more special purpose, but look at the sample albums to see what they're about.

Atom is "do you want the simplicity of the original Minimal, before it lost its way, but with a reasonable set of options?"
kilobravo

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 04:51   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
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Thanks for all that Jeff and I'll go grab Neptune and letcha know. And yep, I have a small test project to use. Learned the hard way previously. <smile>
JeffTucker

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 10:53   in response to: kilobravo in response to: kilobravo
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(Posts branched to a new thread, since the subject has changed.)
RobM

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 5 Jan 25, 11:21   in response to: kilobravo in response to: kilobravo
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kilobravo wrote:
Do I understand skin loading correctly..if I double click a skin file with JA open to an existing project, it will load that skin into only that project?

Thanks..

Some history:
Until around 2017 installing a skin, with a project open, would set that project’s skin to the newly installed skin. From sometime in 2017 installing a skin only makes it available for selection, to use the skin you must actively select it.
JeffTucker

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Re: Tiger isn’t the only skin
Posted: 6 Jan 25, 13:21   in response to: RobM in response to: RobM
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RobM wrote:
Until around 2017 installing a skin, with a project open, would set that project’s skin to the newly installed skin.

Yes, I remember that. It produced all kinds of nasty surprises, especially when users saved the project with the newly installed skin and its settings, and had no backup to which they could retreat.
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