Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, rotating, cropping, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos the way you want to.
Album Shaper supports open formats like XML, JPEG, and XSLT.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features / Feature Enhancements:
· New mosaic manipulation!
· Aspect ratio selection usability improvements (smarter placement with regard to rotating selections, positioning, and support for tall photos)
· Improved B/W and Sepia effects (weights now based on modern display phosphor characteristics)
· Added French translation
· German translation brought up to date
Minor Improvements:
· Rewrote AlbumShaper.pro project file to support changing install location on Unix systems
· Changed "Disable checking for..." checkbox to "Check for photo modifications..." under settings
· Cut down window and dialog title text by removing "Album Shaper: " prefix
· Fixed alert dialogs to handle long message translations
· Various spelling mistakes and other minor visible text improvements
· Fixed fonts in status area and various dialogs
· Cosmetic fixes regarding buttons and layout in Save as dialog
· Added missing red color to some button references in help system
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug where dropping objects from the desktop / file browsers on album / collection image caused Album Shaper to crash
· Fixed a bug where Album Shaper would crash when trying to edit 8 bit grayscale and color images
· Fixed a bug where after removing photos in a collection the edit tab and various buttons below were still enabled
· Fixed a threading bug in the file preview feature that could cause the program to hang
· Fixed the rare 0kb bug! (reverting a photo sometimes caused the photo to be corrupted)
· Disabled user input while loading albums
· Fixed a bug where loading recent albums using the keyboard shortcuts could cause Album Shaper to crash
· Fixed a bugs where using save-as to copy an album from one location to another did not copy over the original form of an image
· Fixed minor bug in Slick theme where carriage returns in photo descriptions caused problems in slide show mode
· Fixed a bug in the Metallic theme where collections that had no cover images could not be reached using the navigation bar
· Fixed various compiler warnings under Linux / FreeBSD