“Easily create web albums”

These days, when it comes to publishing your own photo albums and sharing them with your friends there are many programs to choose from. JALbum is a free and intuitive tool to edit your photos and prepare good looking albums.

Although the interface feels a little crowded it will provide a good way of exploring your folders for pictures and quickly selecting the ones you want to put into your album. JALbum also includes a good set of editing tools to tweak your pictures a bit, like removing red eyes, blurring or sharpening.

However the strongest feature of the application is certainly making albums. This is very easy to do and JAlbum comes with a number of styles to start out with. You can also download more skins from the developer's website. Once you're album is done, you can either upload it to your JAlbum account, if you have one, or to any other server if you have the login details.

With a good set of editing tools, and a straightforward process, the free JAlbum makes for a great way of creating photo albums to share with your friends.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in JAlbum:

User interface redesigned to be more workflow-logical. These changes have been performed after analyzing user behaviour on a test group. I believe these changes will double the number of users that successfully publish albums with Jalbum
Publish window now capable of password protecting albums hosted on myJalbum.net
Installing skins on Windows Vista now works
Added skins are now preserved between updates of Jalbum (stored in separate location)
Improved handling of foreign characters and spaces on Mac
Jalbum can now help users telling about their new albums after publishing them (via email and web)
Mac user interface improvements
Skin developers can now use the new ja:switch and an improved ja:if statement
New printing partner support - SnapGalaxy
Ten languages updated. Thank you all translators!
Bundled skin Chameleon updated to v4.3.1
Bundled skin BluPlusPlus updated to v4.1.0
Several bugs fixed

OS requirements for JAlbum:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Pros

Good set of editing tools
Browsing for pictures
Lots of album styles

Cons

Interface can feel crowded

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From the publisher of JAlbum

This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free! With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support and thanks to JAlbum's built in web server, you can even share your albums straight from JAlbum. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.

JAlbum is written after numerous disappointments with existing album software. With JAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just color theme and basic layout, still making an album is just a matter of drag and drop + a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. JAlbum will process your images, make index pages and slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see.