'album' is a tool to create and maintain a browser based photo album. The photo albums are intended to be the digital equivalents of paper albums, but easier to create and maintain. Although you can publish a photo album on the Web, this tool is not specifically targeted at creating Web shows. Details ======= A photo album consists of a number of (large) pictures, small thumbnail images, and index pages. Optionally, medium sized images can be generated as well. The album will be organised as follows: index.html first or only index page indexN.html subsequent index pages (N = 1, 2, ...) css/ direcotry with style sheets icons/ directory with navigation icons large/ original (large) images, with HTML pages medium/ optional medium sized images, with HTML pages thumbnail/ thumbnail images Each image can be labeled with a description, a tag (applies to a group of images, e.g. a date), the image name, and some characteristics (size and dimensions). Images can be handled 'in situ', or imported from e.g. a CD-ROM or digital camera. Optionally, EXIF information from digital camera files can be taken into account. Web site: http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/Album/index.html Helper programs =============== This program requires some helper programs for certain tasks. jpegtran will be used to rotate JPEG files loslessly. If missing, JPEG files will be rotated by ImageMagick, with possible loss of information. mencoder is needed to manipulate MPEG files. If missing, MPEG files will be copied without processing. They cannot be rotated, and may not be playable on your mpeg player. mplayer is needed to extract a still from MPEG movies, and to extract audio from VOICE files. If missing, no stills will be produced, and VOICE files will remain silent.