JAlbum

JAlbum is a great open source program, which generates pictures album, easy to use, but very powerful.
These albums can be accessed on your computer, CD or DVD, or online.

One of its best features is the ability of the user select "skins", to define the aspect of the album.
Skins are plugins that JAlbum use as a basis for the creation of the album.
These skins can be customized by the user to achieve some spectacular results.
Official site: http://jalbum.net/

Skins for JAlbum

I had develop several "skins" for JAlbum, some with special features:

Skins Customization

Tell me what you want (with details) and I will provide you with a budget that surely will be accessible...

General instructions

The skins should be put in the JAlbum "skins" folder. 

All the skins, that I developed, need the following folders to work correctly:
_backbar-sets
_backfolder-sets
_backpaper-sets
_backthumb-sets
_border-sets
_button-sets

These folders are compressed in the "arte_resources-skins.jaskin" file that you will have to download and uncompress in the Jalbum "skins" directory.

The "2_resources-skins.jaskin" is discontinued, if you use these new skins, you have to replace that folders ...

These skins will automatically fetch the resources of these folders, according to the code of style sheets that are in the "styles" folder.

They can exchange the approximately 60 style sheets and other resources with each other because they have many internal similarities...
[See styles]

They are prepared to use the "ShopCart", a virtual store, fast and easy to install, which allows selling the items you want.

The ShopCart "and other resources are in the file "arte_resources.jaskin" which you can also download and decompress in the "skins" directory of "JAlbum" (read the instructions in them).

"Skins"

The skins "1frame", "1frameSlideShow", "2OriginalSlideShow", "3frames", "4frameSlideShow" e "3versatil-index" are discontinued.

This are the new skins (that replace them), you can download them:

arteframe

Works with a 2 iframes system: thumbnails in one frame, slides in the other.
You can choose the positioning of the thumbnails: to the right, left, top or bottom.
3 modes of displaying the slides (also in other skins):
1. images resized to the chosen size,
2. original sized to fill the entire screen
3. original in its actual size.
Navigation buttons in all situations (also in other skins).
Transparent watermark with the font size you choose (also in other skins).

arteharmonia

This is the most appropriate skin to use with sophisticated styles.
The thumbnails pages (index) have several options for placing the text: title (bottom, top, left, right), name, comment, date, number or nothing.
In the slides pages you can put the comments and mini thumbs in various positions.

artepanorama

To present panoramic images.
For panoramic images of 360º replace the "slide.htt" and "originalslide.htt", that are at the root of the skin, wiht which are in the "2image360º" folder, the folder "1image" serves as a backup.
It uses javascript to scroll the image horizontaly, without the necessity of installing any plugin.
Automatic and mouse controlled scroll.
3 modes of slides:
1. images resized to the chosen size, scrolled
2. original sized to fill the entire screen, scrolled
3. original in its actual size.
Navigation buttons in all situations.
Transparent watermark with the font size you choose.
You can use the www.autostitch.net to join several images in one panorama image.

artetotal

To submit images with full screen size.
Clicking a thumbnail opens the image sized to fill the entire screen in slideshow (F11 to enter / exit full screen).
Navigation with buttons and image map (4 sensitive areas: next, previous, original and thumbnail).
Comments superimposed over the image.

artevideo

With this skin simply capture a frame (image)(s) of the film(s); JAlbum does the rest of the work.
Works with movies in flv format.
The films may be in your computer or server, or in youtube or another similar service.
[See detailed instructions]

Skins Customization:

The folder "styles" of each skin contains the style sheets, from which it created the appearance of all pages.
If you want to create new styles, save (save as) one of these sheets with the appropriate name for that style and then make the changes you want, but keep the sheet structure, so that everything works well.
Do not change the name of the wallpaper "backpaper.jpg.
If you like a certain style, but prefer other buttons, other frames, or other backgrounds, ..., just substitute their names in the style sheet, the code you need to change is at the beginning of the style sheet:

Here's an example (the code that can be changed is in green):
/* <% album.put("BUTTON_SET", "blue"); %> */
/* <% album.put("BACKBAR_SET", "azul_metal"); %> */
/* <% album.put("BORDER_SET", "border_none"); %> */
/* <% album.put("BACKPAPER_SET_DARK", "backpaper_d007.jpg"); %> */
/* <% album.put("BACKTHUMB_SET","diap4.gif"); %> */
/* <% album.put("BACKFOLDER_SET", "folder_book_black140.gif"); %> */

You can add your favorite images to the corresponding folders: _backthumb-sets, _backfolder-sets, _backpaper-sets /..., but respect the naming ...

You can add folders with your favorite images to corresponding folders: _button-sets, _backbar-sets, _border-sets.
Copy one of the folders, give it the appropriate name, replace the images (atetion to their size), but not to change their names ...

"border_none" is to be used when we want that any frame appear around the images.
The folder "Jalbum\ skins\_border-sets have different frames that you can use (open the index.html in the folder Jalbum\skins\_border-sets \_borders_frames to view them).
To add your own frame, copy one of the folders "border_ ... and replace the files without changing their names, the" fill.gif "is a square transparent image, used to assign the "thickness" of the Frame ...
[ see the frames ]

[ see albums examples in the galery ]

If you use any of these skins and want to compensate my work,
you can click the button below to make a donation via PayPal:

Some programs (freeware) that can help in the preparation of the albums:

Irfan View - http://www.irfanview.com - viewer of many images formats  with huge potential...
Top Stile - http://www.bradsoft.com - style sheets publisher, with a lot of style... 
CPick - http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/software/software.htm - to capture the color screen, find and tune the color you want, copy the code for style sheets...
ScrollBar - http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/software/software.htm - o color the scroll bar and copy the code for style sheets...
Texture Discovery - http://www.i-tex.de - to see the tiled backpapers...
Kompozer - http://kompozer.net - wygiwys html editor...
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net - html code editor, etc.
Audacity  - http://audacity.sourceforge.net - audio editor that can import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3, Cut, Copy and Paste, mix tracks and apply effects. 

If you detect some "bug", complete or correct some translation, and/or improve some of these skins, please send it to me by email to: carlos@arteharmonia.com