Photo! Web Album offers and easy way to create photo galleries for the web with an emphasis on being user friendly and usable. This makes Photo! Web Album ideal for beginners who aren't looking for anything that looks great but works quickly and in a straightforward manner. From the moment of installation of Photo! Web Album, you're asked how you would like to post your photos to the web via a built-in wizard which makes it simple to use.

There's no need to worry about hosting either - Photo! Web Album allows you to share your photo albums on the developer's own website although how much space you've got here is not clear but it's likely it's not particularly generous. What's nice though is that by using the Photo! Web Album service, you can edit your photo presentation and online creations from the Photo! Web Album desktop interface. All changes are made in realtime so there's no waiting around for the server to catch up with edits you make. Photo! Web Album also lets you add subfolders of photos related to another subject which means that it's actually a better way to organise your photos than even Picassa.

Basic photo editor, uploader and hosting in one, Photo! Web Album is a competitive solution for novices or those new to photo uploading.

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Overview

The jAlbum interface has improved a lot in recent versions, and is now a clean, clear slate for exploring your pictures and quickly selecting the ones you want to put into your album. Once you've imported photos, you can rearrange them, remove the ones you don't like, add captions and generally make lots of tweaks to make the most of them. jAlbum also includes a nice set of basic editing tools.

Features

jAlbum's strongest feature is certainly making albums. You've got a view options here - you can make an album to view locally on your PC, upload it to a jAlbum account, or upload it to you own web server. This is very easy to do and jAlbum comes with a number of styles to start out with. You can also download more skins from the developer's website.

You can also share your published albums via a vast selection of different social networks, Facebook and Twitter included.

One minor complaint with the jAlbum is that for an album creation app, it doesn't have as many sharing options as we'd like. It could definitely do with the ability to post to places like Facebook straight from the app as opposed to having to first publish an album before sharing. We also missed the opportunity to add music outside of having to use a custom skin for it, a touch that would make some albums really special.

With a good set of editing tools, and a straightforward process, the free jAlbum makes for a great way of creating photo albums to share with your friends.

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The best thing about the software is that you don't need to be an expert in HTML programming in order to use it. You simply select the photos that you wish to include in the gallery, choose a frame and a colour scheme, and the program magically generates the necessary code for you in seconds.

Personally, I'd have liked to see at least some basic image editing features in AAA Photo Album, but as a tool for quickly publishing pictures to the web, it does its job with aplomb.

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The application has all the features you would expect. You can create albums, and there are simple tools to adjust contrast, brightness and color. There is also a batch editor to resize groups of pictures or rename them, as well as crop tools and red eye removal. All of this is really easy to use, and the interface is quite slick and attractive.

As well as organizing your photos, you can create a Snapact account which gives you an online profile. With this you can upload albums at the click of a button. There are privacy controls, so you can control who can access your online albums. Synchronizing albums with your online profile works really well, so you can just send friends and family a link to see your photos.

The application is still a little unfinished, with a couple of things like Help search yet to be implemented. Despite this it's still a really usable application, and uploading to the web is very well integrated and probably Snapact Photo Manager's greatest feature.

Snapact Photo Manager is a neat and beautifully simple way to organize and share your photos online.

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The application has all the features you would expect. You can create albums, and there are simple tools to adjust contrast, brightness and color. There is also a batch editor to resize groups of pictures or rename them, as well as crop tools and red eye removal. All of this is really easy to use, and the interface is quite slick and attractive.

As well as organizing your photos, you can create a Snapact account which gives you an online profile. With this you can upload albums at the click of a button. There are privacy controls, so you can control who can access your online albums. Synchronizing albums with your online profile works really well, so you can just send friends and family a link to see your photos.

The application is still a little unfinished, with a couple of things like Help search yet to be implemented. Despite this it's still a really usable application, and uploading to the web is very well integrated and probably Snapact Photo Manager's greatest feature.

Snapact Photo Manager is a neat and beautifully simple way to organize and share your photos online.

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Element Photo Gallery makes it possible to create custom albums through its interface and subsequently import the pictures you've taken into it. It's a relatively easy program to use and is great for beginners or more experienced photographers alike. Arrange your photos any way you want. You can even show them off to friends and family through Element Photo Gallery's slide show feature. There's an option to burn your photo galleries to a CD as well, which is a nice feature for people who want to share their photos on different computers.

What sets Element Photo Gallery apart from other photo gallery programs is its touch-up features. While relatively basic, you can alter a photo's brightness, contrast, and make other easy changes like rotating the picture a certain degree. Another nice option included in the program is the ability to publish photos to your personal website in a few easy clicks.

Unfortunately, for the more advanced photographers out there, Element Photo Gallery stops short of being a truly excellent program as a result of its limited touch-up options. If you just want to arrange your photos into albums or show them off to friends, it's a great program choice. If, on the other hand, you want to improve the quality of your photos, Element Photo Gallery's touch-up options are not advanced enough to do anything but the most basic of alterations.

Give Element Photo Gallery a try if you're looking for a photo organizer with basic touch-up options.

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