These manuals are meant to help you better understand how to work with the jAlbum application. It also covers some of the more advanced features of the application, such as image filters and command line support.

The manuals show information relating to the current version of jAlbum but older versions of the pages are still accessible. To read a specific page relating to a specific version of jAlbum you need to establish the release date for that version, you can see version release dates here, for example, jAlbum 15 was released on November 18, 2017. To read the manual page for Settings/Pages you must navigate to the current page and then click on the 'History' tab just above the pages title - the 'Article' tab is selected by default. That shows the first edit of that page after November 18 2017 was 16 December 2017, click on that date link to read the version of that page. You can also see what the changes were between that page and the previous/next edit by clicking on the appropriate '(diff)' link, the changes will be highlighted for easy identification. Note, if you click on a link to another page you will be taken to the current version of that page, so you will need to select the appropriate historical edit for that page too.

jAlbum users are welcome to open a wiki account, using their jAlbum account username, and contribute to the wiki documentation. Skin developers can also host their skin's documentation here or just link to their own online documentation. Once you have created your account send an email to anca at jAlbum, he will provide write access to the wiki.

Understanding jAlbum

• Welcome - GUI main controls
• Managing images with jAlbum
• Where are my Files?
• Tutorials

jAlbum's user interface

At the top right of the user interface is a spyglass icon which will open a search field allowing you to locate controls by their labels. This' control' search can be invoked by clicking the icon, pressing 'CTRL + SPACE' or by the menu, 'Help/Search'. Start to enter the name of a setting you want to find/set. Search results are shown as you type, if your target is visible then click on it or use the down/up arrow keys to move through the list and then click on it or hit 'Enter' to select it. In the example below 'vid' has been typed and the results show all of the controls including 'vid' in their labels. As can be seen, we have results for four different areas in jAlbum that have settings for videos.

The appropriate setting section, which will be expanded if it is within a collapsed panel, and the target word(s) is briefly highlighted with a yellow circle.In this case the image shows the result of selecting 'Quality' setting of the 'Album settings - Video - Quality'

After a successful search the search term is selected, ready to be replaced by a new search word if required. The path to the selected setting is written to the system console (press F7 to open it) should you want to make a note of it or if you want to quickly find that setting again without having to perform the search again. You can use the down arrow key to bring up the results of the last search.

There is also a search icon in the 'Settings' window which will search only for controls within this window.

View modes

• Explore
• Edit
• Preview
• Review

Windows

• Settings
• Preferences
• Project Gallery
• Upload
• Share
• System Console

Menus

• jAlbum
• File
• Edit
• View
• Album
• Tools
• Help

Advanced

• Keyboard shortcuts and modifiers
• External tools
• More about image filters
• Running jAlbum from the command line
• System Console Code snippets

Skins

• Skin Manuals
• Skin Development

jAlbum.net: After publishing and more

• jAlbum's Website