Album

album is a tool to create and maintain a browser based photo album.

The photo albums are intended to be the digital equivalents of paper albums, but easier to create and maintain. Although you can publish a photo album on the Web, this tool is not specifically targeted at creating Web shows.

Disclaimer This program was initially written in 2002. Nowadays better alternatives may exist.

Details

A photo album consists of a number of (large) pictures, small thumbnail images, and index pages. Optionally, medium sized images can be generated as well. The album will be organised as follows:

index/           index pages and thumbnails
icons/           directory with navigation icons
large/           original (large) images, with HTML pages
medium/          optional medium sized images, with HTML pages

Each image can be labeled with a description, a tag (applies to a group of images, e.g. a date), the image name, and some characteristics (size and dimensions).

Images can be handled 'in situ', or imported from e.g. a CD-ROM or digital camera. Optionally, EXIF information from digital camera files can be taken into account.

Web site: https://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/Album/index.html

Helper programs

This program requires some helper programs for certain tasks.

• jpegtran will be used to rotate JPEG files loslessly. If missing, JPEG files will be rotated by ImageMagick, with possible loss of information.
• mencoder is needed to manipulate MPEG files. If missing, MPEG files will be copied without processing. They cannot be rotated, and may not be playable on your mpeg player.
• mplayer is needed to extract a still from MPEG movies, and to extract audio from VOICE files. If missing, no stills will be produced, and VOICE files will remain silent.

Migrating from Version 1

The structure and content of the files have changed from version 1 in an INCOMPATIBLE way. Hopefully, the version 2 approach will be flexible enough to last longer.

If you didn't change any style sheets, migration is easy:

• remove all index*.html files
• remove the css directory, with contents
• rename the thumbnails directory to index

If you did change style sheets:

• remove all index*.html files
• move the css directory, with contents, to a backup location
• rename the thumbnails directory to index
• run album with --extcss once
• apply your style sheet changes to the new style sheets