Album Shaper

Album Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML, XSLT, and JPG. Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows quick and easy arrangement and catagorization of photos. Batch rotations make getting your photos ready a quick and easy task. You can also crop, enhance, and manipulate your photos using a powerful but intuitive editing interface. Photos, collections, and albums themselves can be labeled as needed and modified at a later time by saving and loading from a simple XML format. Albums are exported as HTML which can then be posted directly on the web or viewed straight from your hard drive.

While mainly a bugfix release, Album Shaper 2.1 adds complete
French and German translations, a new Radiant theme, and a
new Mosaic image manipulation. The compilation and installation
process for Linux/FreeBSD users has also seen significant
improvements.

New Features / Feature Enhancements:

* New mosaic manipulation!
* Aspect ratio selection usability improvements (smarter
placement with regard to rotating selections, positioning, and
support for tall photos)
* Improved B/W and Sepia effects (weights now based on
modern display phosphor characteristics)
* Added French translation
* German translation brought up to date

Minor Improvements:

* Rewrote AlbumShaper.pro project file to support changing
install location on Unix systems
* Changed "Disable checking for..." checkbox to "Check for
photo modifications..." under settings
* Cut down window and dialog title text by removing "Album
Shaper: " prefix
* Fixed alert dialogs to handle long message translations
* Various spelling mistakes and other minor visible text improvements
* Fixed fonts in status area and various dialogs
* Cosmetic fixes regarding buttons and layout in Save as dialog
* Added missing red color to some button references in help system

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a bug where dropping objects from the desktop / file
browsers on album / collection image caused Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bug where Album Shaper would crash when trying to
edit 8 bit grayscale and color images
* Fixed a bug where after removing photos in a collection the
edit tab and various buttons below were still enabled
* Fixed a threading bug in the file preview feature that could
cause the program to hang
* Fixed the rare 0kb bug! (reverting a photo sometimes caused
the photo to be corrupted)
* Disabled user input while loading albums
* Fixed a bug where loading recent albums using the keyboard
shortcuts could cause Album Shaper to crash
* Fixed a bugs where using save-as to copy an album from one
location to another did not copy over the original form of an image
* Fixed minor bug in Slick theme where carriage returns in photo
descriptions caused problems in slide show mode
* Fixed a bug in the Metallic theme where collections that had no
cover images could not be reached using the navigation bar
* Fixed various compiler warnings under Linux / FreeBSD