Fortop Album Creator

NOTE: Fortop Album Creator is no longer supported, so it is now impossible to purchase the application. Nonetheless, you can still download it from Softpedia and use it with the limitations listed on this page

Fortop Album Creator is a Windows application developed specifically for helping you create digital photo albums with images from your personal collection and background music.

The tool reveals a well-structured suite of features. A help manual is also included in the package in case you need further assistance with some of the configuration settings.

Fortop Album Creator gives you the possibility to choose between a wide range of templates which can be personalized with custom photos. You may preview the templates directly in the main window and check out details about their dimension.

Images can be dragged and dropped directly in the primary panel or imported via the built-in browse button. The tool offers support for various file formats, such as JPG, PNG, and BMP.

You may preview the photos, rotate items to different angles or according to the EXIF information, arrange files in a certain order (by date/time or name in an ascending or descending order), remove images from the album, as well as set up photo comments by inserting text messages (which can be customized in terms of size, alignment, and color).

Music can be added in the background. You may add media files (e.g. MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, WMV, ASF), set their order in the album, as well as rename them. The tool is able to extract audio streams from clips.

Fortop Album Creator comes with support for several tweaking parameters which help you adjust the size of the photos, generate automatic slideshows while having the option to set the speed and action after playing the last image in the slideshow (turn to the first picture or stop the slideshow), show or hide the gallery, music, and search toolbars in/from the slideshow, and enable or disable the ‘Print,’ ‘Help,’ and ‘Information’ buttons.

What’s more, you can play the background music in a random or sequential order, activate a loop mode, configure the initial volume, and play music after loading the slideshow. You may also apply all sorts of transition effects and enable a full screen display.

The slideshows can be saved to a file on your computer so you can easily import them for future adjustments. You can also export them to SWF or EXE file format, and print the albums.

Fortop Album Creator offers you the possibility to set info about the album (e.g. title, name of the author), adjust the JPEG quality, automatically rotate photos with EXIF data, configure MP3 settings (sample rate, channels, bitrate), and include signature.

All things considered, Fortop Album Creator provides several handy features for helping you create photo albums. However, the GUI cannot be described as highly intuitive so you may need some extra time to get the meaning of each tweaking parameter.