Introduction

AlbumCreator is a product to create professional looking web galleries, based on graphics themes from all photos you took with your digital camera and share them with your family and friends over the Internet.

To compose an album you can use our occasional graphics templates in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language - the most common format to store and transfer data in web) and FLASH (Macromedia Flash Technology format -format that creates dynamic animated images using sound and other special effects). We call them themes and they will be regularly updated. Information about new themes you can find at www.firmtools.com.
Also now it is possible to create your own theme, use it to compose an album or exchange it with other AlbumCreator users at Themes exchange page of our site.

Study the list below to understand why we consider our AlbumCreator exclusive.

Now you can

• Create both FLASH and HTML albums;
• Modify created albums;
• Create themes yourself, following our instructions and install them;
• Exchange your own themes with other AlbumCreator users at our site;
• Download our new themes from www.firmtools.com;
• Improve images color characteristics with PhotoEnhancer including red-eye reduction (only Basic and Pro versions);
• Print images of the composed album (if FirmTools PhotoPrinter is installed on your computer);
• Position images in the album in the desired order;
• Add shortcut to created album to Internet Explorer favorites folder;
• Publish result album to WEB so your family and friends can enjoy it.

Images formats

In case you have Lite or Basic version of AlbumCreator you'll be able to create album using images of the following formats:

• GIF - Graphic Interchange Format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by World Wide Web;
• JPG, JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group format, a lossy compression technique for color images.
• BMP - Windows bit-mapped graphics format;
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics format, similar to GIF.

If you've ordered Pro version of our product you can use images of the formats listed below:

• GIF - Graphic Interchange Format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by World Wide Web;
• JPG , JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group format, a lossy compression technique for color images;
• BMP - Windows bit-mapped graphics format;
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics format, similar to GIF;
• TGA - developed by Truevision, supports 8,16,24 and 32-bit images. Mostly uncompressed;
• PSD - Adobe Photoshop;
• TIF,TIFF - Universal Graphic Format for PC and Mac platforms;
• SGI - Silicon Graphics file format, also known as RGB file format;
• RGB, RGBA - Silicon Graphics RGB formats;
• BW - Silicon Graphics file format;
• PIC - simple vector graphics format originally designed for use by a support application of Lotus 1-2-3;
• PCX - originally designed by Zsoft for PC Paintbrush MS-DOS, one of the most usable graphic formats;
• PCD - Kodak PhotoCD format.

System requirements:

• PC with a Pentium 200 MHz or higher processor
• Microsoft Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 SP3, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher
• 64 MB of RAM
• 14 MB (Pro), 11 MB (Basic), 9 MB (Lite) of available hard-disk space
• Monitor 256 color or higher

You'll need Macromedia Flash player 5 to view FLASH albums and Tutorial. Click here to download free version of Macromedia Flash Player 5.