With Focus Photoeditor you can publish a web album of your nicest photos in 3 very simple and quick steps. You can view your album as slide-show using the Internet Explorer (5.0 higher) or as normal album using any other internet browser such as Firefox, Netscape, etc..
To proceed to the album creation, choose from the main menu-> File->Create Web Album
There are 3 steps, you need to complete:
1st Step: Choose Pictures
As first step, you will choose which pictures to include in your web album.
- First select on the left the folder where your pictures are located: the pictures will appear in the on the right.
- It's possible to browse the pictures as a list of names or as thumbnails
- Each file is marked with a check. Uncheck those pictures you dont want to include in the album
- You can see a bigger a preview of each picture in the bottom left panel.
Import Pictures:
- After all the pictures you want to include are checked click on the "Import Checked Files" Button.
- The checked pictures will appear in the album list at the bottom.
- The album list has two columns: one for the name of the file and one for the title of the picture.
- You can apply rotations or a "quick fix" correction to pictures in the album list.
- You can edit the title, just clicking on the column and entering your text. To create a title made of different lines use the symbol "<br>": this represents a break of the line.
- You can also add a long description for each picture: this will be used if you wish to publish your album with a memo frame too. To add the description, select a picture from the album list and click the memo button on the album toolbar which you can see at the top of the list. Remember that if you want to publish your long descriptions you have to check the "Include Memo Frame" option at step 3 of the web-album builder.
- You can remove items from the album list pressing the delete button on the album toolbar.
- You can put the pictures in a different order. To do this, use the Arrows buttons on the album toolbar.
When you are ready with the list go to next step, by clicking the "Next" button.
Once you click Next, to
go to the further step you can always go back to the previous step. In this way
you can complete some missing parts of your album later.
Remember also you can
Save and Load your Album Projects at any moment. Once you create an album a
project will be also automatically saved in the same folder where your album was
created.
2nd Step: Choose Album Settings
This will allow you to choose:
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The folder where your album will be placed on your computer
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The Title of the Album and Copyright
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The kind of album (with vertical frame or horizontal)
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The minimum Screen resolution that your album has to support
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The size of the Thumbnails
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The quality of the pictures
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The music to play with your album
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If the pictures must be kept in original format and stretched to fit any screen larger than the one supported or Resized once to a fixed size before the album is created ("Fit picture to screen" option.)
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You can also choose a layout for both thumbnails and pictures (frame, drop shadow)
Choose Next to go to the next step.
3rd Step: Customize Appearence
This will allow you to choose:
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The Background Color of your Album
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The picture (if you wish it) to use as background texture in your Album
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How to colorize the texture
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The font to use, the size and color. Notice that the size you choose will be the size of the smallest text. Titles will have greater size and will be bold by default.
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The Picture to use as presentation on the first page of your album.
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2 lines of text to present your album on the first page.
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"Include Memo Frame" option. With this option you can publish your long descriptions (see step 1) using memos.
To Create the Album click on the "Go!" button.