jAlbum 18.0.1

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 18.0.1 changes (see release notes for more):

News and Updates

New Project Gallery allowing you to visually browse web preview thumbnails of your album projects (See File->Project Gallery or new button next to the "New project" button). The project gallery allows you to explore all projects present in "My Albums" as well as all projects listed under "Recent Projects".
Faster album uploads, especially updates to exiting albums due to rewritten media RSS handling and minimizing network IO calls
Exclude now deletes cached thumbnails
Removed obsolete Show thumbnails with high JPEG compression quality option
Removed obsolete Progressive mode image setting
Removed obsolete URL-encode links option
Languages updated. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

More robust uploads. Now recovers from upload problems arising due to inconsistencies between the "manifest.jmf" cache file and the true contents of the server.
Fixed broken Media RSS generation (URLs weren't absolute)
Save changes warnings were sometimes generated even though no changes has been made

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