PhotoAlb Homepage - What's New



		What's New? Version 3.10.3 Improved support for printers in Windows XP. Version 3.10.0 Added support for stereoscopic 3D photos in cross-eyed JPS format. Added ability to view stereoscopic 3D photos with a range of 3D glasses, within the standard PhotoAlb environment. Added a 3D sample album. Version 3.9.9 Web Retriever, automatically create albums from pictures on web sites. Download for free from the downloads page. Added an option to automatically rotate the pictures to best fit the screen when creating a HTML album for viewing on a PDA. Fixed a bug when dragging pictures to other albums. Sped up the HTML export functions. Version 3.9.8 Improved printing support Last picture added stays highlighted Can now browse for more folders when adding files Frames update when changing properties Use the /d switch to specify a directory for the library to open on load When copying pictures with the 'Add Files' function, you can now specify a prefix to allow several pictures called 'pic0001' etc to be placed in the same directory. When exporting to a webpage, you can now specify a prefix for the HTML files and also a header and a footer to allow easy integration into websites created with a template Improved JPG handling Version 3.9.7 Support for chapters within albums (Album>Chapters) Bug Fixes Version 3.9.6 Previewing function improved and now auto-resizes. Miniatures are noew stored as JPGs which require less disk space. Miniatures function is now more efficient. The red-eye reduction function has been improved. The crop function has been improved. The 'View Directory' window now minimised when viewing an image fullscreen. Version 3.9.5 New frames added. Option to display fullscreen captions in a white box. Fixed a bug when renaming albums. Vastly improved HTML export option. Now creates a fully navigable multi-page album. Distributable PhotoAlb Viewer now available so you can share your albums with friends and family. Version 3.9.1 Added support for several new file formats including: ICB, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, and VST. Version 3.9.0 You can now print the comments beneath a picture when you print it. Album printing now allows you to remove the frames and displays more of the comments. All exporting functions now fall under 'Save Special'. There are two new options: HTML Slideshow - This will produce a slideshow using HTML. You can specify the picture size making it ideal for viewing your albums on a web-browser equipped PDA such as all windows-CE machines. Casio Watch Camera - This creates a directory containing entries suitable for downloading into the Casio Camera Watch. There is also an updated version of the installer and some updated runtimes. Version 3.8.0 Added drag and drop to other programs from PhotoAlb. Fixed a bug in auto-update miniatures. Cut and paste entries - including to other albums. Improved print picture functions. The slideshow can now start at a random picture. Added the ability to rotate a picture by a given number of degrees. Commas in filenames could cause problems before - this has now been fixed. Albums saved for distribution now contain the slideshow information as well. Version 3.7.0 You can now jump to a picture number in the album by using the index. You can specify a default directory to export to. Exporting now displays the full Win32 folder list which includes the Desktop. New resizable library design which allows you to display more albums at the same time. An icon can now be specified to be displayed next to an album in the library. Custom icons can be created using PhotoAlb. See the HowTo drop down menu for more information. Pictures with media attached now have a small speaker on the left of their frames. The effects function now remembers the exact order in which you applied filters to give an exact replica of the preview image. You can now display a history of applied filters in the effects function. Export to HTML now removes spaces from filenames. New picture frames. Some of the old ones have been removed and replaced with new designs. Album backups are now created on save instead of open. When saving for distribution you can now specify a subdirectory to contain the images. Added Kid Safe mode. This allows you to disable risky functions such as save over and delete so that inexperienced users can browse your albums safely. You must enter a specified password to disable this function once it is started. PhotoAlb now accepts drag and drop of pictures and media files from windows explorer. You can now make the fullscreen comments bold. There is now a function to import databases from programs such as Approach or Access. The screensaver now has two additional options: random order and no filenames. It also remembers the album last selected when you going into settings. New faster JPEG saving. You can also specify the quality of the resulting JPEG image file to save disk space or increase quality. New installer. I have purchased the WISE installer to provide more reliable installation and smaller upgrades. A bug on some older Windows 95 machines which caused crashing when attempting to save JPEG files has been fixed. Version 3.6.2 Fixed error that caused timer mouse icon to appear when creating miniatures. Fixed crop inaccuracy bug. Version 3.6.1 Fixed Xtreeopt error. Fixed a bug affecting the reset function in effects. If you delete an image from the album, you are now prompted to save on exit. Improved coping with themes and other custom windows settings. You can now choose to store miniatures in the same directory as the pictures they represent. This allows you to have pictures with the same filename, but in different directories. Improved miniature removal function. Version 3.6.0 Changes made to the album while displaying search results can now be kept when returning to full-album viewing. PhotoAlb now automatically backs up an album when it is opened. Select 'Display Backup Albums' in the Library to open a backup. Added an option to not print the crease when printing the album Improved the quality of the printed pictures when printing the album. Fixed a bug when printing multiple pictures. The album now will never display a blank page unless the album is empty. The album now uses up less memory. Added a function to remove duplicate pictures. Increased the number of right-click options. When fullscreen viewing a picture with a media file associated, PhotoAlb no longer displays a blank screen while loading the media file. You can now access the right-click album menu from the fullscreen control panel. Added a horizontal slider to the cinema, which displays the progress through the video clip and allows you to jump to a certain position by dragging the slider. Directory selection is now done using the Windows directory browser. The crop function now operates on a full-size display of the picture. You can now create a custom thumbnail for use in the effects window. Added a wizard to remove Red-eye from photographs. Re-wrote the rotation function. It is now at least 30 times faster. The 'Search for Not Founds' function now displays a list of pictures that can't be found and allows you to select which - if any - you wish to remove from the album. Slideshow settings are now saved with the album. A new installer. A new domain name - http://www.photoalb.com. Version 3.5.2 A DLL file was causing an error on install. I have removed this file and hopefully it won't be a problem as I believe it to be supplied by windows. If you get a missing DLL error then please e-mail me at RScullion@kagi.com. Fixed sample album so pictures/sounds are now found when you double-click. Note that the EXE is unchanged and so you will still see version 3.5.1 on startup. Version 3.5.1 Fixed a bug from 3.4.1 which caused crashing when previewing a media file and a slideshow to start when viewing a picture with a sound associated with it, full screen. Re-added the ability to search more than the first 10 fields in the database. Version 3.5.0 Added the ability to select specific database fields in the Print Index function. Improved the 'Set Windows Background' function. It now converts the images to bitmaps so that all pictures can be used with Windows 95, it also copies the picture in case it is stored on removable media, or you delete it. Added a function to sort out a problem that occurred when searching a database with blank fields. All blank fields are now replaced by a custom blank field tag. The default is '<Blank>'. Added a text editor which allows you to create introductions to your albums which can be set to display when the album is opened. Fixed a bug which caused pictures not to display full-screen when opened from the database viewer or the index. Allowed the database viewer to use miniatures which can speed things up. Added an automatic browse function which will search your hard disk or other media for albums and display them. You can then copy any it finds to your library or open them from there current location. Improved the recurse directory function when adding files. It now searches the entire subdirectory tree, not just the first layer. Added optimal size (replaces actual size), and specify size options when printing a picture. It now automatically selects the currently selected picture for printing as well. Increased the size of the window the picture is displayed in when cropping. Simplified the database search function. Added Gamma correction to the list of available effects. This can be very effective when some areas of the picture are too dark as happens when you take a photo without a flash. You are now offered the option of creating miniatures for pictures you have just added to the album. Version 3.4.0 Added a function to go through an album and automatically remove any pictures which don't exist any more. Added an option to not preview the pictures before adding them to the album. This speeds things up when working with large pictures. Added a few HowTo's in a drop down menu. Removing the captions from the full-screen view now has effect until you restart PhotoAlb. Added optional password protection to albums. It is a simple Caesar Cypher system intended to stop people from viewing private albums. Note that this only prevents people from viewing the album in PhotoAlb without the password. It doesn't encyrpt the ALB file or the pictures that are linked to. Fixed a bug that allowed you to view blank entires full-screen. Also fixed a bug that caused problems if you double-clicked one picture and then double-clicked another before the previous one had been displayed. Added 3 new frames. If you want a certain frame added send me either a description or even better a sketch and I will add it. Added an option to the screensaver to not view the pictures fitted to the screen and cleaned up the opening graphic. Fixed a problem when saving JPEGs. Double-clicking on a video clip with no attached picture in the album now plays it in the cinema. Added a Sync to Audio option to the slideshow which displays each picture for the duration of its associated audio track. If background music is enabled then each picture will be displayed for the duration of the background track. This option allows you to use PhotoAlb as a playlist for audio files and also time slideshows by using a blank MIDI/WAV track of the required length to set the duration of display for each picture. If a picture has no audio track associated with it then it is displayed for the duration set in the Delay box. Version 3.3.1: Fixed a couple of bugs. The main one caused version 3.3.0 to crash. If you downloaded version 3.3.0, you can fix this problem by going to settings and selecting a font size, then saving your settings. The other caused problems when saving for distribution albums which had already been saved for distribution. This didn't actually cause any problems, but produced error messages. Version 3.3.0: Added the ability to enter a filespec when adding new files. When displaying an image full screen, PhotoAlb now attempts to calculate the best colour to use for the font to make it visible, rather than simply using yellow. You can also toggle this function with an override where you select the colour. Simply click on 'P' on the full-screen control panel. Added two new full screen font sizes which allow you to see one or two lines of comments instead of three. Added PageUp, PageDown and Escape functionality to full screen view. The entry details function now displays the picture number. Fixed a couple of bugs. Version 3.2.1: Re-wrote fullscreen display code. There was a bug which caused slowdown and out of memory errors after a large number of pictures had been displayed fullscreen with antialiasing enabled. New hardware accelerated antialiasing, now displays twice as fast as with antialiasing turned off! New software antialiasing for people who's graphics cards don't support this function. Requires a fast machine. Added option to not antialias pictures when you resize them. Version 3.2: Added an index and the ability to jump to the page the current database picture is on. Added a Save As option for pictures already in the album. Fixed a problem with viewing WMF files full-screen with anti-aliasing enabled. Export to HTML now produces JPG thumbnails as Netscape couldn't view the Bitmap ones. Fixed a problem removing media file association. Fixed a miniatures directory bug. Version 3.1: Fixed a bug which caused JPEG files to become corrupted if the size wasn't a multiple of 4. Added an option to not zoom the images when viewing full-screen. Added fast Mirror/Flip functions. Fixed a bug when clicking on cancel when saving. Version 3.0: Version 3.0 has been entirely re-written from scratch in the latest version of the compiler. It is faster, more reliable and more powerful than the previous version. Basically everything has been re-done so a change-log would be pointless. Instead there are some notable improvements: 'Adjust lighting' has been replaced by 'effects'. Not only is this much faster but lots of new filters have been added like sharpness, emboss, Luminosity, the list goes on. Drag and drop within the album has been added. You can now change the frame that contains the picture and this changes to make it easier to see which picture has been selected. The database search engine now allows you to search specific fields. Version 2.72: Changed cursors to highlight active areas of the screen. Added Redirect Miniatures option to preferences. When this is enabled, miniatures will be written to the directory containing the currently open album, rather than to the PhotoAlb\album_name directory. Photoalb will also attempt to read them from the album directory. This allows you to store miniatures with albums on CD. Version 2.70: Fixed problems encountered in 2.60 with running PhotoAlb on some machines. It should now run on all 95/98/NT machines again. New volume control code. You now play a video fullscreen by double-clicking on the picture it is associated with in the album. Normally played videos now play in a virtual cinema at actual size (see screenshots). This currently only works optimally for videos of around the standard 358x240 size. Larger videos will be clipped unless played full-screen. This should be fixed by the next release. Fixed some bugs in multimedia enhanced albums. Added Default Zoom to the zoom menu. This allows you to select the zoom which you have set in preferences. Fixed several bugs causing problems when using pictures on CDs.