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Album Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML, XSLT, and JPG. Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows quick and easy arrangement and catagorization of photos. Batch rotations make getting your photos ready a quick and easy task. You can also crop, enhance, and manipulate your photos using a powerful but intuitive editing interface. Photos, collections, and albums themselves can be labeled as needed and modified at a later time by saving and loading from a simple XML format. Albums are exported as HTML which can then be posted directly on the web or viewed straight from your hard drive.
While mainly a bugfix release, Album Shaper 2.1 adds complete
French and German translations, a new Radiant theme, and a
new Mosaic image manipulation. The compilation and installation
process for Linux/FreeBSD users has also seen significant
improvements.
15 years ago
New Features / Feature Enhancements:
* New mosaic manipulation!
* Aspect ratio selection usability improvements (smarter
placement with regard to rotating selections, positioning, and
support for tall photos)
* Improved B/W and Sepia effects (weights now based on
modern display phosphor characteristics)
* Added French translation
* German translation brought up to date
Minor Improvements:
* Rewrote AlbumShaper.pro project file to support changing
install location on Unix systems
* Changed "Disable checking for..." checkbox to "Check for
photo modifications..." under settings
* Cut down window and dialog title text by removing "Album
Shaper: " prefix
* Fixed alert dialogs to handle long message translations
* Various spelling mistakes and other minor visible text improvements
* Fixed fonts in status area and various dialogs
* Cosmetic fixes regarding buttons and layout in Save as dialog
* Added missing red color to some button references in help system
Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug where dropping objects from the desktop / file
browsers on album / collection image caused Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bug where Album Shaper would crash when trying to
edit 8 bit grayscale and color images
* Fixed a bug where after removing photos in a collection the
edit tab and various buttons below were still enabled
* Fixed a threading bug in the file preview feature that could
cause the program to hang
* Fixed the rare 0kb bug! (reverting a photo sometimes caused
the photo to be corrupted)
* Disabled user input while loading albums
* Fixed a bug where loading recent albums using the keyboard
shortcuts could cause Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bugs where using save-as to copy an album from one
location to another did not copy over the original form of an image
* Fixed minor bug in Slick theme where carriage returns in photo
descriptions caused problems in slide show mode
* Fixed a bug in the Metallic theme where collections that had no
cover images could not be reached using the navigation bar
* Fixed various compiler warnings under Linux / FreeBSD
15 years ago
New Features / Feature Enhancements:
* New mosaic manipulation!
* Aspect ratio selection usability improvements (smarter
placement with regard to rotating selections, positioning, and
support for tall photos)
* Improved B/W and Sepia effects (weights now based on
modern display phosphor characteristics)
* Added French translation
* German translation brought up to date
Minor Improvements:
* Rewrote AlbumShaper.pro project file to support changing
install location on Unix systems
* Changed "Disable checking for..." checkbox to "Check for
photo modifications..." under settings
* Cut down window and dialog title text by removing "Album
Shaper: " prefix
* Fixed alert dialogs to handle long message translations
* Various spelling mistakes and other minor visible text improvements
* Fixed fonts in status area and various dialogs
* Cosmetic fixes regarding buttons and layout in Save as dialog
* Added missing red color to some button references in help system
Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug where dropping objects from the desktop / file
browsers on album / collection image caused Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bug where Album Shaper would crash when trying to
edit 8 bit grayscale and color images
* Fixed a bug where after removing photos in a collection the
edit tab and various buttons below were still enabled
* Fixed a threading bug in the file preview feature that could
cause the program to hang
* Fixed the rare 0kb bug! (reverting a photo sometimes caused
the photo to be corrupted)
* Disabled user input while loading albums
* Fixed a bug where loading recent albums using the keyboard
shortcuts could cause Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bugs where using save-as to copy an album from one
location to another did not copy over the original form of an image
* Fixed minor bug in Slick theme where carriage returns in photo
descriptions caused problems in slide show mode
* Fixed a bug in the Metallic theme where collections that had no
cover images could not be reached using the navigation bar
* Fixed various compiler warnings under Linux / FreeBSD
davidw1957
10 years ago
The HTML output is not W3C compliant. You would think that the people who program the code for these apps would know compliant HTML and CSS.
It required a bit of hand coding the Album Shaper output for my website to be W3C and CSS compliant.
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davidw1957
10 years ago
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davidw1957
10 years ago
http://www.davidreeves.com/images/Gallery/index.html
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viron
15 years ago
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wstokes
15 years ago
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olahaye74
15 years ago
Juste like digikam does. It's pretty convenient way to quickly switch to you app if needed.
Indeed, most of people testing your app have already a collection of photo albums often organized as directories and subdirectories. Having the above functionality would greatly help.
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ViRgiLiO
15 years ago
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wstokes
15 years ago
http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/futurePlans.shtml
If I've forgotten a feature request anyone has sent me in the past it is not intentional. Send me a message and I'll be sure to update this list.
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japc
15 years ago
(both thumbs up)
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japc
15 years ago
[japc@morgoth:/tmp/albumshaper_2.0_src/bin]$ ldd AlbumShaper.bin | grep qt
libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x4118e000)
Comenting the generatorThread creation (on src/gui/dialogs/addPhotosDialog.cpp) solved the problem.
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wstokes
15 years ago
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olahaye74
15 years ago
I'm realy missing KDE File dialog box with bookmarks previews and left shortcuts icons.
Support for digikamimage-plugins and kipi-plugins would be cool too.
Best regards.
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olahaye74
15 years ago
This place is dedicated to my compilation and install trash. If it works, then I package the thing for a /usr relative location and I remove /usr/local directory.
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wstokes
15 years ago
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wstokes
15 years ago
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olahaye74
15 years ago
I've created a spec file for MDK, but I don't know how to attach it. It aims to be Mandrake RPM architecture compliant. (though not perfect IMHO)
Best regards.
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wstokes
15 years ago
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meneerdik
15 years ago
One bug: When I want to choose a directory to save the album to, it won't let me select a directory. Maybe you mixed up a directory chooser with the 'save-as' dialog.
Suggestion: It took me quite a while to discover how to set an image for the album. It might be better if you always display the album image and allow the user to change it by clicking on it. The default album picture could be an empty picture with the words 'Click to change' on it.
One more suggestion: Add "what's this" balloons to each GUI element that pop up on mouse hovering, explaining how to use each GUI element.
Idea: How about an image printing application that works quite like Album Shaper (Maybe you can re-use code), but creates photo collage PDF files for printing? That's really something I'm still dreaming about.
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wstokes
15 years ago
Your confusion with the save-dialog is not unheard of. I'm toying with the idea of rolling my own filedialogs. I'm seriously thinking of moving from a album based approach to a central photo library in the future which would mean save/load dialogs would be a think of the past.
Regarding setting album/collection photos, I've tried my best thus far to make it intuitive, but I guess I can still improve more. Drag-n-drop is a big win, and replacing one image with a new one helps. Having a default image that does not get used confuses people so I don't do that anymore. Have you found the right-click context menu that can also be used to set these images?
I'm not sure what you mean exactly about the "what's this" functionality. I have tooltips all over right now. Perhaps you turned them off in the settings?
I can't agree with you more about printing though. Not only will be this useful, but I'm looking forward to hacking it up since there is a small problem of how to optimize fitting photos onto pages to facilitate using the most paper, making cutting the out easier, and also making it easy for the user to pick how big each photo would be (why print 4x6's, than 5x7's, why not print all of them at the same time and have Album Shaper help you figure out how to lay them out on the paper). While it's not printing functiality yet, I've put in a DPI warning system when cropping to aspect ratios and you can now export photos so you can print them with other software on your machine. In time... ;)
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anandO
16 years ago
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d-play
15 years ago
First of all, I agree that this is a great piece of program.
I'm glad you like my theme, I will update it a bit and try to add slideshow possibilities to it in Album Shaper 2.
I also have plans on a new theme, but I don't know when that would be.
/ Christian Sandberg
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wstokes
15 years ago
Christian Sandberg
cs (at) d-play (dot) com
I'm busy working on the final touches of the next release, but if you are really interested try checking out the Slick theme source and try patching the Metalic theme to provide slideshows too. You can learn more about making your own theme here:
http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/documentation_writingThemes.shtml
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shazam75
16 years ago
Regards
Shelton
Australia
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chickenblood
16 years ago
Here's my opinion, for what it's worth, in how you can improve the UI:
1. Have an option to load the last opened album on startup.
2. Provide an MRU in the file menu of recently opened albums.
3. Insteaded of asking the user if they want to quit without saving, give them the option to save the file immediately.
All the best!
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wstokes
15 years ago
http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/images/teasers/recentAlbums.jpg
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