album
album is a free HTML/XHTML photo album and gallery generator that supports themes/skins. You can choose different themes or write your own to get different layouts and styles. It creates all your thumbnails (including directory thumbnails) and descends into directories so you can organize your photos. See the home page for more examples. album is also multi-lingual, with many languages being added all the time. N.B.: The purchase link is provided for donations; the software does not cost anything.
| Tags | Internet Web Site Management multimedia Graphics Graphics Conversion Presentation Viewers Dynamic Content |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Freeware |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X Windows Windows OS Independent POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 22 Dec 2008 06:53
Changes: A Windows GUI is available, with full support for Windows. There are many new plugins, options, and languages as well. There are some bugfixes, including an important image overlay bugfix.
- 08 Jan 2007 04:23
Changes: Language support was improved. Most themes now support translations and can handle graphics in different languages (see "-lang nl -theme Blue"). This version should be used instead of 4.00 for language work.
- 21 Dec 2006 22:29
Changes: Full language and i18n internationalization support was added. New languages and plugins and many more features were added.
- 10 Oct 2006 05:44
Changes: Small fixes were made. A new plugin and theme interfaces were added.
- 15 Jun 2006 02:32
Changes: Many new themes, many new plugins, many new features. slideshow support, transparent image boundaries, directory thumbnail selection, RSS support, and more.
- All comments
Recent commentsAlbum is perfect for archiving digital photos
Because it:
* doesn't modify or move the original photos
* produces HTML output which won't be obsolete in 10 years, (unlike most other data formats)
* creates html from multiple directories with a single command
* can create intermediate-size photos (important for interactive performance at the MegaPixels go up)
* supports movie files, too
* supports display of EXIF data in the HTML output
(no need to click around in a special viewer)
Simple and powerful, what more could you want?
I literally was up and running 3 minutes after downloading this script. Highly recommended: it's extremely simple, and works perfectly the first time.
If you're in doubt, download it yourself, and if you don't like it, well, you will only have lost 3 minutes of your life.
Re: Making the album script work under windows
> Wow, making album work under windows is
> as easy as putting cygwin on your
> windows PC so that windows can interpret
> ./ properly. Runs like a champ, and is
> *way* better than any for purchase album
> packages. Way to go Mr author! you da
> man!
Did you get ffmpeg working in CygWin? Cause I have no luck. Album works just great!
The Bee
awesome!
what a completely excellent little script. Many thanks to the creator!!!
Very cool!
I had a bunch of scripts that did something similar, but album is much more professional and clean:
- one script does it all,
- it relies on convert and which usually work on most *nix systems, as opposed to ImageMagick which I never managed to compile,
- the file structure it generates is very neat and unostrusive,
- the source is quite easy to read (and tweak, see a slightly modified output (http://www.xmltwig.com/mirod/pict/antonio))
Overall album strikes the perfect balance between simplicity (if I just drop the files from my digital camera in a directory they can be neatly online seconds later) and customization (I can come back later and add captions very easily)
Kudos to Dave