jAlbum
The jAlbum desktop application creates photo album websites from your images
Just drag and drop images (and videos) onto jAlbum, press “Make” and your website is ready to upload to your own site. Or to jalbum.net if you don’t have one.
jAlbum is cross-platform photo website software for creating and uploading galleries from images and videos. jAlbum has built-in support for organizing and editing images, but with focus on flexible presentation. The resulting albums can be published on jalbum.net or on the user’s own website. jAlbum software has been used to create over 32 million photo galleries, with over one million users. Majestic.com counts over 118 million backlinks to jalbum.net
Software
jAlbum is credited as being extremely easy to use, flexible and versatile. − It relies on the Java virtual machine, so can be run on most operating systems, and is available in 32 languages
The software allows users to manage their photo collection, sorting photos into albums, performing basic digital editing and commenting individual photos. The main focus is on producing HTML based galleries, for publishing online or distributing via other means. Users can customise the look and functionality of their photo galleries by using a small set of templates or skins that come with the program, or by choosing from dozens of skins available for download. Some are free, but others require a third party license. The community, that has formed around jAlbum produces a variety of creative skins, offering galleries based on standard HTML designs, AJAX slideshows and popular image viewers.
Jalbum was created by Swedish programmer David Ekholm in 2002.
Features
Create beautiful web galleries
Use the powerful jAlbum software to create professional web galleries for any website. Choose from dozens of album skins and customize to your own personal touch.
With one button click jAlbum will batch process your images, scale them for the web and create web pages for you.
Easy to use
You’ll be instantly familiar with jAlbum’s explorer-like user interface. Use drag-and drop to add new photos and videos. Create folders to better organize your gallery. Use the right-click menu (context menu) to access the most frequently used functions, like sorting, rotating, editing or choosing as folder thumbnail. Add captions right below the thumbnails.
Upload to any site
You can upload your galleries to any place on the internet: to your own site or blog. You can even share a gallery straight from your hard disk. If you don’t own a site, use jalbum.net – our community site – which is specialized on storing, sharing and showcasing web galleries in a spectacular way.
Supports huge image volumes
jAlbum is optimized to handle huge image volumes and can use your current folder structure. This means you can update your web galleries with more images or new features in no time at all.
An average jAlbum gallery has 70 images and it is not uncommon to find galleries with 10.000 to 100.000 images presented in an organized portfolio site created with just a few clicks.
Many organizations appreciate jAlbum for this aspect as they have a recurring need to update image galleries of their events. Here are some examples:
Organizes your images
Are your images laying around in a mess on various disks and memory cards? jAlbum quickly and easily organizes them into clear folder trees based on camera date (year, month etc), name or place (GPS location). Duplicates are handled and jAlbum provides multi level undo/redo so you can play around. Here are two videos showing how jAlbum handles files and how to get your images organized. Read more in our blog post →.
No lock-in
With jAlbum there is minimal lock-in. jAlbum is a cross platform desktop software for Windows, Mac and Linux. As such it doesn’t rely on central cloud services. It works within your existing folder structure (you know where your files are) and uses Adobe’s open standard for handling metadata like captions, ratings and keywords (xmp). This means it integrates well with Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge, and your valuable metadata is kept within your image files. jAlbum’s configuration files are plain text and XML and most skins are open source that you can modify to your liking. It’s easy to start using jAlbum and it’s easy to stop using jAlbum.
Customize presentation
Skins are plugins to jAlbum which determine the layout and feature set of the generated web galleries. Some skins are simple and easy to modify, while others have advanced features, like Google maps integration, video playback or shopping cart integration to name a few. jAlbum comes bundled with about 10 skins and you can install dozens of new ones from our skins section.
Supports video
jAlbum is not just about presenting images, it’s just as good at handling videos. jAlbum converts over 160 different video formats to mp4, a format suitable for web presentation over a range of browsers and devices. Just drag and drop to create stunning video galleries!
Edit images
In Edit mode you’re able to view your photos in larger size, add captions and apply various filters. Adjust your images with the Crop and Straighten tool, fine tune with Gamma and Level or apply various artistic filters. You can even add text to your images, e.g. for the purpose of watermarking. Note, your originals will be never touched, only the downscaled version in the final gallery.
Protect your images
jAlbum offers a range of methods to help protect your images: Images can be watermarked and have your logo stamped onto them in batch. You can have copyright notices added to the metadata of your images. Images can be scaled to “suitable for web only” sizes and the use of the right mouse button to save images can be disabled on browers that respect that hint (supported by some skins only).
Sell your images
With jAlbum it’s truly easy to sell your images (or the items they show). It only takes a couple of minutes to set up an album that is fitted with a shopping cart (supported by some skins only). You decide the pricing and products to sell. jAlbum currently integrates with PayPal, Google Checkout and Fotomoto (which also handles printing and delivery for you). Here’s a video on how to fit your jAlbum album with a shopping cart. Here are some examples:
Create full websites
Create fully customizable, professional web photo sites complete with “about” and “contact” pages, shopping cart, social integration and map support.
Create together
Managing galleries where several people contribute with images is easy. We give you an email address in the format username@jalbum.net. This email address can be attached to one or many collaborative gallery projects. Images mailed to such addresses appear automatically in the respective project and your contributors are notified of updates. Read more in our blog post →.
Integrate with WordPress
By using the jAlbum bridge plugin you can create stunning projectors of your jAlbum galleries right from the WordPress editor. Enjoy jAlbum’s customization options and features, upload and manage whole albums with a click of a button – much easier than in WordPress.
Create web galleries from
Lightroom Classic
Our Lightroom Classic plugin allows you to set up and manage ”collections” and ”collection sets” within Lightroom which are mapped towards jAlbum galleries. Every time you publish from our plugin, new and modified images are exported from Lightroom to jAlbum (a folder under the ”My Albums” location). Finally, the corresponding jAlbum project is opened in jAlbum for further editing, album making and final publishing to a web site of your choice.
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