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Now that you have all these digital images on your hard disks, maybe youd like to have a way to show them to friends and family like you used to show a scrapbook or a photo album: in meaningful collections, page by page on a nice background with descriptions, so the pictures can actually tell a story.
Youd probably also want to have an easy way to show these albums over the internet, or to make CDs for sharing your pictures, which are easy to use.
Maybe, youd like to enhance your albums with background music, and create slideshows where the album pages change using transitions and with timings that exactly fit the music. And, once youre this far, why not record such slideshows to movies which can ultimately be put on Video-CDs or DVDs, playable from a DVD-player.
Album Generator and Viewer (Album GV, for short) has been written originally for the authors own use, in order to achieve all this in a way involving only as much hassle as absolutely necessary. Pick a group of image files on your disks, sort them on a light table, group them into album pages, add page titles, picture descriptions, pick fonts, colors, background, save to an album (*.alb) file, and youre ready to show this group from your PC.
Follow some additional steps made easy by Wizards, and you can share albums over the net or via album-CDs which can contain as many albums as fit.
As an example, you can view a web-album created with Album GV 2.0
Pick a list of music files for background music, and use the built-in slideshow editor to create conducted shows. You can rehearse the timings, meaning, you can interactively specify display- and transition- times for each page separately, while watching the show and listining to the music.
Layout of album pages is fully customizable, but can be very fast, too, using several auto-layout modes. One album page can show up to four pictures together with a page title and each pictures description.
Often you have images with a common topic which you would like to display in one group, but they reside in different folders. With Album GV, you can easily pick the pictures for one album from as many folders as you want.
While doing all the above, Album does not store copies of your image files, nor does it change their location, nor does it put permanent files on your hard disk, unless you tell it to. The *.alb files only save the locations of your images, their descriptions and other options, like fonts and colors.
Operating System: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Other Windows 32bit versions might work, but have not been tested.
Minimum system requirements for enjoyable slideshows: Pentium III 800Mhz (or equivalent), Graphics Adapter with 16MB memory
Desktop Settings: At least 800x600 resolution, at least 16 bit color depth |
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