Album Shaper 2.1 review
DownloadAlbum Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML, XSLT, and JPG.
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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.
What's New in This Release:
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
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