Album Shaper

Album Shaper Publisher's Description:
Album Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML, XSLT, and JPG. Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows quick and easy arrangement and catagorization of photos. Batch rotations make getting your photos ready a quick and easy task. You can also crop, enhance, and manipulate your photos using a powerful but intuitive editing interface. Photos, collections, and albums themselves can be labeled as needed and modified at a later time by saving and loading from a simple XML format. Albums are exported as HTML which can then be posted directly on the web or viewed straight from your hard drive.

What's new in this version:
Album Shaper has changed radically since the last version. Importing photos is several times faster. So is rotating and flipping photos, and it's now lossless (meaning image quality never degrades) too! Lots and lots of bugs have been fixed, especially after an entire month of solid testing by over 18 dedicated beta testers. Internationalization support has improved leaps and bounds, impart thanks to the new help system that comes with this release. But most importantly, the photo editing side of Album Shaper has been completely rewritten. You can now quickly crop photos to standard dimensions (e.g. 5x7), drag out selections and move them around, scale selections in place, rotate selections, even drag selection edges and corners independently, before cropping. A new tilt-correction tool has been added that is remarkably easy and accurate to use. You can touch up photos with several advanced enhancing tools (color, contrast, and very sophisticated red-eye removal), in addition to using advanced levels and grain editors. For kicks I've even thrown in a few manipulations (black + white, sepia coloring, inversion, color embossing, and an oil painting effect).