Album Shaper?
Exploring the Interface
Adding/Removing Collections
Adding/Removing Photos
Rearranging Items
Annotating Albums
Batch Image Effects
Image Editing Interface
Saving and Loading Albums
An Album Coverpage
Album Shaper?
Many of us have an ever-increasing collections of digital photos that we are starting to lose control over. Most likely it is difficult or tedious to oragnize these photos, label them, and rotate those that need it. The web is full of scripts to make web photo albums, which are great compared to the alternative of doing everything by hand, but quickly pose a number of problems. What if you want to create a smaller photo album of select photos for a specific event? What if you want to go back and edit your photos later, perhaps adjusting the color balance, rotating photos that need it, or annotate your photos and collections in general so you won't forget what the things are you saw and witnessed. With scripts or by hand these chores are painful, slow, and end up breaking down. Digital cameras become problematic, annoying, and you might even stop taking photos out of fear of what you will do with them.
A thumbnail view
A contact sheet of thumbnails for a particular collection.
Album Shaper was developed to solve all those problems, and to create opportunties to become creative with your digital photos, enabling you to organize them and share them with as many people as possible. The images here illustrate what Album Shaper can do for you. These screenshots are taken from an album consisting of nine collections and almost 400 photos! What are collections? How can I create beautiful albums like this? Those questions and a complete explanation of how to leverage all the features of Album Shaper are provided in the following pages.
A Collection slideshow
Slideshows let you quickly flip through images.
If you decide to begin using Album Shaper, you will not lose control of your photos. Album Shaper helps manage your photos while keeping them in the standard JPEG format. Album Shaper creates HTML albums you can view in your favorite web browser, place online to share with friends, and easily edit by hand if you are so inclined. Album Shaper is a cross platform (Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X) open source application which means you'll never lose control of your photos.