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**
:-P

[![thumb_screenshot.jpg](http://maulik.freeshell.net/software/malbum-release/thumb_screenshot.jpg)](/space/screenshot.jpg)

[MAlbum
Screenshot](http://maulik.freeshell.net/software/malbum-release/screenshot.jpg)

### 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](http://maulik.freeshell.net/software/malbum-release/MAlbum.jar)
  * Jar file includes source and Makefile
  * Relased under GPL
  * [Sample
Album](http://maulik.freeshell.net/software/malbum-release/malbumSample)

### Usage and Requirements

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

### Author / Contact / Bug Report Receiver

  * [Maulik](http://maulik.net/)