Album Express is a great instrument for creating slick, professional-looking picture albums for home, friends and the Web. Its interface and built-in templates make it easy to present your pictures stylishly: you can create a slide show, an index, catalog your pictures, and build a fully searchable image database - all with just a few clicks of the mouse.

If you're a computer rookie, you'll love the program's ease of use. Select the pictures you want, select a template and Album Express will assemble your creation in no time - editing Web pages was never like this!

Your picture collection comes complete with standard navigation tools, and you can even include a background image for added impact. No matter if you want to view your albums at home, using your favorite browser, or upload them to your home page on the Internet, by using Album Express it's as easy as clicking on a mouse button.

Album Express also addresses power users. Its full-featured scripting language will allow you to build your own album templates, permiting almost unlimited creativity in developing display styles and techniques.

Album Express comes with a set of demonstration templates that showcase some of the possible uses of the application.

You can use Album Express for building framed pages, allowing pictures to be selected from thumbnail images, or taking advantage of the multimedia potential of HTML by associating pictures with MIDI tracks or sound clips.

Requirements:

· Pentium CPU
· 4MB HDD
· 32MB RAM
· Super VGA display with 800x600 resolution


Limitations:

· One month trial
· The photo albums created with the trial version include the tag "Created with Album Express"
· Startup time less fast than full version

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added two new resampling filters in the Thumbnail Generator dialog box: Bilinear and Bicubic. The Bilinear interpolation method produces relatively smooth edges with few jaggies. This algorithm is often recommended for shrinking images. Bicubic interpolation is more sophisticated than Bilinear. It produces very smooth edges with hardly any jaggies (even better than Bilinear). This algorithm is often used for enlarging images.
· In the Thumbnail Generator dialog box, added support for new rename tokens in the Prefix/suffix field. You can now use tokens to control the character case of image names. Example: supposing the processed file is called "sample04.jpg" and the rename field has the following criteria: "tn_{!FileName}"; the resulting file will be assigned the following name: "tn_SAMPLE04.JPG".
· Improved the Hue method available on the Image Conversion/Adjustments tab.
· The news feature now does its polling in a separate program thread to improve program loading speed.
· Updated image processing code, which includes many improvements in file handling.
· Updated Help file.
· Several minor glitches fixed and other improvements.