written by Laza / Hungary · Minimum JAlbum version: v6.1

User Interface

For JAlbum's User Manual click here! This is the Main JAlbum User Interface Tab. You can select here input and output folders, the basic layout parameters, and the skin - which determines the layout, the grahics elements, and features of the generated album. IMPORTANT! Chameleon skin is based on 120x120 pixel thumbnails. If you want bigger thumbs, please turn off the "Diplay slide mount background" option on Chameleon / Index Page tab. You can also expect some misalignment, for the tables are based on 140x140px cells. Image directory: The source folder. Click on the small folder icon to choose or drag and drop the desired folder here! Output directory: The destination folder where your album will be generated. Can be a subfolder of the originals - JAlbum will not include in the album recursively. Output to image directory: The gallery will be generated right into the source folder, mixed with the original pictures. Only recommended if you don't want your originals to keep in a separate folder. Copy originals: Copies the original images to the destination folder. Must be checked if you want your gallery uploaded along with the original images. Consider, that including originals will inflate the whole site about 5-20 times in size depending on your camera's resolution. Process subdirectories: Check this box if you want to include the subfolders (default). Uncheck if you want to generate only a main page for the already generated subgalleries. Make slides: Without generating the slide pages you will only have the pages with the small thumbnails.
Image Linking Link to originals: No medium sized images (see image bounds) will be generated - the thumbs will bring you directly to the original images. Link to originals via scaled images: The thumbnails on the index page link to a (slide) page which is optimized for online viewing. Clicking the scaled image shows the original. Link to scaled-down images only: No originals will be inlcuded in the album. "Copy originals" is not necessary here.
Image bounds The size of the bounding box for the thumbnails on the index pages and the slide page images in pixels. You can choose from the list or can give manually. The generated images will maintain the original aspect ratio. If you make thumbs bigger you better turn off the "Diplay slide mount background" option on Chameleon / Index Page tab. For the image bounds 720x540 is a good choice for most screen resolutions.
Thumbnail layout The table (cell) dimensions on the index page. 5x3 fits on the 800x600 (VGA) screens - 6x4 on the 1024x768 (SVGA).
Image ordering You can specify here the order of images and folders.
Appearance Skin: The layout scheme (e.g. Chameleon - you are reading Chameleon's help) Style: The sub-style of the skin. The Chameleon has 24 styles at the moment, see below:
3D dark | 3D light
Aluminium | Aqua dark
Aqua light | Black
Carstereo | Coffee
Device | Gold
Grays | Happy
Jungle | Leopard
OrangeBlue | OrangeGreen
Plastic | Royal
Silver | Simple
Snake | Steel
Vanilla | World