CNET Editors' review
A simple-to-use photo album creator, Album Shaper is well-suited to beginning digital photographers, but likely will disappoint those with designer ambitions.
The program installs and loads simply, supporting a wide variety of languages. Its interface is well-designed, and should present few hurdles even to the most tech-phobic users. Once images are loaded, they can be edited, rotated or flipped, or enhanced with features such as brightness, red-eye removal, and histogram manipulation. Albums can be annotated with a name, description and author.
However, the program suffers a bit when it comes to album design, with few options for changing layout. This can give the resulting products an amateurish air unworthy of the program's otherwise user-friendly feel. On the whole, we'd recommend the software to users who want a hassle-free way to organize and display photos, but experienced photographers and designers likely will want more power.
Publisher's Description
From Will Stokes:
Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos. Album Shaper embraces open formats like XML, JPEG, and XSLT, while supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix users who speak a multitude of languages around the world.
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"nice fast and highly configurable provided you have an idea of what XML is"
Version: Album Shaper 2.1
Pros
it provides what you need if you're looking
for a clean and elegant photo album maker without
being complex and slow
Cons
there is not enough help for non XSLT/XML people.
This program whould be a nice starting arena for XSLT and XML
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"Kinda Sucked"
Version: Album Shaper 2.1
Pros
I liked the concept of the product. I Love to make memories last for ever whether in pixels or in my mind!
Cons
I could not load ANY of my pictures becuase it only accepted one kind of file and my pictures dont meet their standards!
