jAlbum/Welcome

This is the view mode jAlbum starts in. It shows whenever you don't have any album project open. Let's go through each part of jAlbum's main user interface:

1. Sign in: Allows you to sign in to your jAlbum account. If you have purchased a license for jAlbum, the license will automatically be activated when you sign in. Once you are signed in, this button changes to a sign out button.
2. Notification center: Notifies you when there is a new jAlbum update, skin update, when the account is about to expire and a lot of other things.
3. Recent projects: A list of all your recent album projects, you can have X album projects in this list. The list can be sorted as recent, a-z or z-a. Click on a project to open it.
4. Empty project: You can select the Empty project to create a new album project.
5. Add: Add images to a new album project by clicking add or drag and drop images or folders from the file system directly to jalbum.
6. Skin and style
7. Skin: The Skin selector is a drop down menu that allows you to select any of the installed skins or, at the end of the list, install more skins from jAlbum.net. Skins bundled with jAlbum appear in regular weight font and skins installed by the user appear in bold. A bundled skin however will appear in bold once it has been updated, as updates go in to the users skins directory, not the program directory.
8. Style: The style selector is a drop down menu that lets you change and preview the style of your album, if supported by the selected skin. The current style is indicated by a tick, the highlighted style is the target. The popup image, if one is supplied by the skin, is an example of how the target style looks.

   Skin settings: If you click the gearwheel the skin settings will open.

   Skin info: If click on the info symbol the skin information window will open.

9. Settings button: Opens jAlbum settings. These settings are applied to the album project you are working with and is independent of the skin you use.