MAlbum

Introduction

I am certain every digital shutter-bug has their own workflow for archiving and sharing their digital photos. My workflow maintains an archive of every photo I take, organized by date, and a second set of albums that are for sharing. In the past, I would need to manually copy the photos that I wanted to share and then use and application to generate the web pages/thumbnails etc. so that I could share these pictures. I wanted to streamline my workflow into a single application.

So I present: MAlbum: Maulik’s Album application

Goals

• Quick and easy graphical interface for creating a web album
• Quickly add captions to photos
• Easily add/remove photos from the album
• Cross Platform (like Jalbum)
• Easily maintain an archive of original photos, and build a library of albums to share (like Picasa)
• Re-open an album, load captions and images and once again add/remove photos and add/remove/change captions
• Zero Install (executable jar file, <60Kb)

Existing Packages

• Jalbum
• • Operates on every picture from a single directory. Cannot combine pictures from different directories.
• Web Album Generator
• • No keyboard short cut to remove pictures from selection.
• • Web albums do not link to original photos
• Picasa
• • Cannot add captions, only keywords

Extensions (To Do list)

• Archive browser
• • Easily find the photos you want to work on
• Drag and drop interface
• Work with the Java Media Framework to work with videos
• Change the List on the left side to a Tree that would organize by date

Download an Sample

• Download MAlbum.jar
• Jar file includes source and Makefile
• Relased under GPL
• Sample Album

Usage and Requirements

• Java 1.4.1
• Windows: Double click on MAlbum.jar
• *nix: java -jar MAlbum.jar

Author / Contact / Bug Report Receiver

• Maulik