jAlbum 15.4

Whether you're an expert photographer with a top quality camera, or just happy to snap away with your mobile, it doesn't take long to build up a big collection of digital photos. So why keep them to yourself? Install jAlbum and it'll help you build stunning web albums in just a few minutes, then you can share the results with friends and family just by sending them your album URL.

You'll need to create a Jalbum account first, but that only takes a moment, and there's nothing to pay. After that, simply drag and drop your favourite photos onto Jalbum. Choose your favourite skin in the "Skin and style" box, click Make jAlbum > Preview, and a browser window will open to show your album.

If you'd like to try another design, then close the window and select another skin. Otherwise, click Publish, and Jalbum will upload your photos to its web server. Again, it's very easy, no hassles over entering server names, passwords or anything else, you just sit back and watch the progress bar as it reports each file transferred.

Once your photos are online then Jalbum will give you a link that you can pass to friends, so they can also view your work. Web counters will show you which photos get the most attention, and visitors can even leave comments to let you know what they think of their favourite shots.

Note that since JAlbum 14, there's no ad-sponsored free version. It's now provided as a trial.

JAlbum 15.4 changes (see release notes for more):

News and Updates

The preview browser now runs in a separate window. (One can optionally switch it back to integrated/embedded mode). The advantages of using a separate window is that you can use a larger window for previews without having to expand the jAlbum window. You can also easily play with various screen sizes to better adapt galleries for various devices (see new "Responsive" button in preview browser's toolbar when running in windowed mode). The "Windowed" preview mode is more like using an external browser for previews, but with the advantages of responding better to skin, style and settings changes within jAlbum.
Main user interface updated to be more streamlined and intuitive: View mode buttons now left-aligned and community related buttons moved to the top-right corner.
New project button ("+") added next to project list.
Made JSON metadata generator more flexible by allowing callback hooks
Bundled the new Zigzag skin
Updated bundled Tiger and Turtle skins
Made browser action buttons translatable

Bug fixes

jAlbum sharing wouldn't save share settings (since 14.1)
Used cached thumbnail within jAlbum even if target image was updated
Made metadata parsing more robust
Fixed bug in iterator element causing incorrect object inclusion in certain situations (since 15.3)
Fixed incorrect thumbWidth and thumbHeight variables for representing folder thumbnails when image has been cropped
Fixed pricing link not showing when license missing and signed in
Fix for missing characters in some asian languages

Fast, easy to use, packed with features and entirely free, this has to be one of the best web thumbnail gallery generators around