Software Screenshot:
JAlbum allows you to create nice-looking photo galleries for the Web. You simply select or drag and drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum, and it creates thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or as a picture slide show. The galleries are based on various templates, and their appearance can be further customized by advanced users. The application's additional features include support for IPTC/EXIF data, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, pluggable image filters, and a built-in FTP/SFTP client.
What is new in this release:
- New configurable "Details" view mode for jAlbum's explore view to facilitate viewing and editing 12 different metadata items like titles, comments, keywords and creator (See Preferences-Details view)
- Rewritten upload engine providing better usage of multiple connections which leads to better performance and upload robustness
- New "Group by Creator" addition to jAlbum's file organizer (organizes images in folders based on the xmp creator)
- Performance enhancement to comment reading (parses the comments.properties file once per folder instead of once per file)
What is new in version 17.0:
- Completely rewritten review mode featuring thumbnail navigation, image zooming and multiple image comparison (1-6 images)
- Way faster and better behaving zoom control installed in both Edit and Review mode
- Better integration with Review mode and Explorer and Edit mode (hit Space to review selected image(s))
- Reads EXIF metadata from video files as well (MP4 and MOV)
- Supports camera date/creation date for mp4 and mov videos too
- Has new "Disable color subsampling" option under Settings-Images-Advanced. Will produce even better looking JPEGs when checked. Currently only applies to images with compression quality >= 90. Disabling chroma/color subsampling increases file size about 17% but doubles the horizontal and vertical color resolution of images.
- Explore mode adjusted for lower CPU usage = better performance
- Now runs on Open Java 11 on all platforms. Earlier, the Mac version was using Oracle's Java 8 and Windows version using Java 9. With Java 11, Oracle's Java is under a commercial license. We therefore moved to the open source "Open JDK 11", which should be working as well by now.
- Remembers width of folder property panel if "Remember last window position and size" is checked under Preferences
- All versions has reduced footprint due to removal of unneeded Java code
- Default video resolution for generated videos bumped from 480p to 720p
- Now capable of correctly importing incorrectly written Windows comments and titles
- Rewritten Mac file chooser integration (runs on Java 9+)
- Embedded browser now accepts all certificates (avoids certificate related errors)
- Moved "Clear project list" to top and added confirmation dialog
- Updated bundled Tiger, Zigzag and Minimal skins
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