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Album is a tool to create HTML based photo albums. It allows you to manage your digital pictures on your computer.

A photo album consists of a series of (large) originals, thumbnails, and index pages. The large originals are the real originals that came from the camera. They will never be touched or modified.

Note that a photo album is not a Web gallery. There are other tools that are much more suited for that purpose.

Design aspects:

Provide index pages with usable thumbnails.
Many tools have thumbnails that are just too small to be really useful.
Provide 'medium' pages, with images of a convenient and consistent size.
Using a 1024x728 screen and the browser's full screen mode, each image can be viewed completely.
Provide 'large' pages, with the original (large) images.
Navigation buttons at fixed locations.
No more looking around to see where the "next" button went...
Navigation with keystrokes as well. No more looking for buttons at all.
Allow updating and reordering of images.
Provide titles and descriptions.
Handle EXIF information, movies, pictures with sound.
Albums can be nested.
Albums can be burned on a CD or DVD for offline viewing.

Watch a presentation (HTML) I made on Album.

Current version: 1.03
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