Just thought I would create a tutorial for those who want to use a gallery on their site but don't know how. This tutorial looks at JAlbum 4.4.2, which you can get by going here GET JAlbum 5.2

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JAlbum allows you to create a photo album without even leaving its main page. Here you can select the image directory, output directory, common album settings and control the album generation.

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To select an image directory, just drag and drop an image folder onto the Image Directory bar. JAlbum can read photos in JPG, GIF and PNG formats as well as movie files like MPG, AVI and WMV.

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Most of JAlbum's skins will give you a preview of how your photo album will appear on the web. Choose a skin from the drop-down menu and click Preview. A little window will appear on the left side of you screen.
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Some skins ill add another tab to the bar at the top. Click on it, and you'll see the skin's custom-use Interface. Its functionality will change from skin to skin. If you're in the XP interface un-tick Link Images to shutterfly.com printing service or you might get an error message.

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On the main page, choose a folder for the output directory, or tick the Output to image directory checkbox to generate the album in the image directory. Click Make album and JAlbum will tell you that it's about to create files in the output directory. The original images won't be touched.

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Click OK and JAlbum will generate your album. A little window lets you monitor the process and peek at the progress of what is being developed for you. Just click Peek and, if you're not happy with what you see, you can abort the project immediately.

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Once JAlbum has finished generating your album, click View album to preview it in your browser.

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Back in JAlbum's main interface, click Edit in the tab bar to ad comments to images or to perform lossless JPEG rotation. All the functions in its section apply directly to the images, so keep backups of your originals.

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Click on Get Images form album to load the photos of your current album. If you just want to edit images but not add them to your album, you can also drag and drop folders and images to save your comments and annotations.

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As JAlbum comes with an integrated FTP client, publishing your album on the Web is incredibly easy. Just click the Publish tab and fill in your FTP connection properties. Smart upload will attempt to speed up the progress by only uploading files with different sizes.

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Finally, click on Advanced in the tab bar. This section gives you more control for creating your album.

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If you don't want to give your album the same name as the folder, add Title as a user defined variable and enter your preferred title in the value field. Hit Enter and regenerate the album by clicking Make album.

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In JAlbum's File menu you can save album project settings. This war your albums can easily be updated when you want to add new images. Just reload the settings from one of your previously created albums.

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Choose Presets in the File menu to quickly get the right settings for different types of album. This menu provides four ready made settings.

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The Tools menu is user extensible. It's still under development but you can already reset the file date to the camera date and more.

Hope the above helped. If you want more tutorials on the different parts to the program, CLICK HERE.

 

 

 

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