Albelli Photo Books (formerly albelli Photo Book Creator )

Photographs help us remember special moments in time, which is why it’s always nice to have them gathered in albums. albelli Photo Book Creator is a nice tool that can help you put together a great album.

The app has a simple interface that should be easy to figure out by all users.

Aside from photo books, this tool can also create diaries, calendars, cards and canvases. On top of enabling you to create these items, it also gives you the opportunity to have them printed for a price.

Each category comes with several subdivisions and each of these with several formats. Regardless of the type of project you want to start, the app can automatically fill in the photograph spots from a user-defined directory or let you do the entire work.

Alternatively, the program can also get images from various online galleries, such as photobucket, Flickr or Picasa.

Each item has different templates for the pages and you may edit this however you want. The pictures can simply be dragged and dropped to the appropriate areas. These can be rotated to any direction and you may also fiddle with their transparency levels. The brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and color temperature may be adjusted as well.

Some effects are available, such as black and white, sepia, watercolor, as well as some colored filters.

You may also adjust the way the corners of the images look, apply shadows and fiddle with the picture alignment on the canvases. The background of the pages can be colored or consist of an image.

The bottom line is that albelli Photo Book Creator is a nice tool that can be quite fun to use, regardless of the task you want to perform. Inexperienced users shouldn’t have any troubles while installing and customizing the program, thanks to its overall simplicity and the intuitive layout.