jAlbum/Settings/Effects

Text

Text Settings are applied to all scaled-down images. Once an effect has been applied the text for that effect turns green.

1. Text: Enter the text to be applied, such as a copyright notice, for example. You can use any character but no line breaks, the text will automatically wrap if it is too long to fit on one line.
2. Font: Select a font from all fonts enabled on your computer, the font will be rendered as a bit map, so you don’t need to use web-safe fonts. In the size box enter the size, eight minimum and eight hundred maximum! Check the option boxes for bold and/or italic as required.
3. Color: Enter the color code in the format #rrggbb, a standard web color such as red, blue or double click on the small rectangle to open up a color picker window.
4. Effects: The text can be plain, have a shadow applied or appear as a watermark, these effects are mutually exclusive. Shadow effect has separate controls for color (7.) and distance (8.). Watermark sets the color to black and the strength to twenty percent.
5. Angle: The angle of the text, and any shadow, can be adjusted between the, strange, limits of +/- 345o. A value of 90 will set the text to vertical, reading downward and -90 to vertical reading up.
6. Alignment: The text can be aligned on a 3x3 grid, top left to bottom right. You can either click on the small grid or click and drag the text to select the alignment, the current alignment is highlighted by a green dot. The margin can be set between +/- 99 pixels, it is the distance from the edge of the image to the text.
7. Shadow color: You can select the shadow color independently of the text color (3.) using the same choices to select a color.
8. Shadow distance: The distance from the text to its shadow can be set from zero to twenty pixels.
9. Strength: The strength, or transparency, can be adjusted from zero to one hundred percent, though a value of zero won’t actually be seen! If you click on the slider to make it active, you can use the arrow keys to make fine, one percent, adjustments.

Logotype

Logotype Settings are applied to all scaled-down images. Once an effect has been applied the text for that effect turns green.

1. Image URL: This shows the path to the active logotype, which can be an internet location or a local file. You can use a preset (2) logo or your own by clicking on the small folder icon to the right and navigating to your file. You can use GIF, PNG and JPEG (JPG) file types, though GIF and PNG are best suited, as they allow transparent backgrounds.
2. Presets: The three presets are for jAlbum logos, jAlbum and jAlbum.net both require an internet connection to show, whilst Dor (as shown in figure 6.1) is part of the jAlbum application. They are all PNGs with transparent backgrounds.
3. Scale: The size of the logotype can be adjusted from zero to one hundred percent, though a value of zero won’t actually be seen! If you click on the slider to make it active (blue edge), you can use the arrow keys to make fine, one percent, adjustments.
4. Angle: The angle of the logotype can be adjusted between the, strange, limits of +/- 45o.
5. Strength: The strength, or transparency, can be adjusted from zero to one hundred percent, though a value of zero won’t actually be seen! If you click on the slider to make it active (blue edge), you can use the arrow keys to make fine, one percent, adjustments.
6. Alignment: The logotype can be aligned on a 3x3 grid, top left to bottom right. You can either click on the small grid or click and drag the logotype to select the alignment, the current alignment is highlighted by a green dot. The margin can be set between +/- 99 pixels, it is the distance from the edge of the image to the logotype.

Gray

Gray Settings are applied to all scaled-down images. Once an effect has been applied the text for that effect turns green.

There is not much to say about this effect!, you can enable or disable it, that’s it! It, of course, turns all of your images to grayscale. It really is, almost, that simple, it does not however affect the text or logotype filters, those colors remain. It can though be used with the Arty filter to change the grayscale dynamics.

Auto

Auto Settings are applied to all scaled-down images. Once an effect has been applied the text for that effect turns green.

Fix all of your images in one go with this filter, either by auto fixing colors, contrast or levels, or by enhancing all three at once.

Arty