The Sourceforge summary for Album Shaper states that:Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, cross platform application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos.
As this was the first linux photo software that I took for a test drive, I can attest that the above statement is true.
Installation was incredibly simple via the deb file that is available for download from the album shaper sourceforge site. This is for the version 2.1.
Once up and running, creating a simple photo slideshow simply involves creating a collection folder to store your photos, then choosing the photos that you wish to add.
Once complete, you can choose to save your project and select from several templates for your webpage as well as the directory the collection will be saved to. Next step is to export the collection into a finished webpage ready for viewing or for uploading to a website to share with the world.
I've created a sample page with some photos from my recent Alaskan Cruise. Try not to fall asleep as you watch my boring home photo slideshow.
There is no autoplay feature unfortunately, so you'll need to advance through each photo/collection manually.
There is quite a bit more that this program can do that I did not explore or work into my slideshow demo. You also have the ability to preview and edit photos, adjust brightness, contrast and tilt as well as annotate individual photos.
The Album Shaper site also includes to other programs Presenter and Reveal that both sound interesting, but that I haven't had a chance to try out yet.
All in all, Album Shaper is a great program that allows for a quick way to create a photo webpage without having to enroll at Harvard to figure out how it should work.
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