• Introduction
• What is new in this release
• Getting started
  • Starting the program
  • Using help tools
• Wizard steps
  • Welcome step
  • Select existing album
  • Select album theme
  • Select album images
    • Add/Remove images
    • Enhance images
    • Red-eye reduction
  • Set album parameters
  • Album generation
  • Final step
    • Final step
    • Using built-in FTP module
• How to
  • Create an album
  • Modify/view an existing album
  • View properties of an existing album
  • Publish album to the Web
  • Add photos from the camera
  • Configure AlbumCreator
  • Install additional themes
  • Customize the theme
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Support

Introduction

FirmTools Album Creator is the unique software to generate professional looking FLASH and HTML image galleries. It combines an incredible amount of customization, intuitive interface, instant sharing (by E-mail or FTP), possibility to enhance your photos, and more. And on the top of that we give you a great chance to be truly creative — to create stunning photo albums with an exclusive design.

To compose photo album you can use our themes or create your own template. You even don't have to know much about HTML to develop you personal theme. Just follow our directions given in the manual. We also give you an opportunity to share your themes with other AlbumCreator users at Themes Collection.

Features

• Create both FLASH and HTML albums;
• Modify created albums;
• Develop 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;
• Get photos directly from your digital camera;
• Add and view photo EXIF information,
• Remove red eyes from your photos using PhotoEnhancer (only Basic and Pro versions);
• 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.

Supported formats

• JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group format, a lossy compression technique for color images;
• TIF,TIFF – Universal Graphic Format for PC and Mac platforms;
• PSD - Adobe Photoshop (read-only);
• BMP- Windows bit-mapped graphics format;
• GIF - Graphic Interchange Format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by World Wide Web;
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics format;
• ICO – Windows Icon file format;
• WMF (read-only), EMF, EMF+ – Windows enhanced metafile formats.

This formats set allows you to generate albums from photos taken on any digital camera and give a unique design for an album using popular web graphics formats and add any watermarks using windows vector formats.

System requirements

• Windows 98, ME, NT4.0, 2000, XP (Recommended), Server 2003 operating system;
• Pentium or AMD 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater);
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher;
• 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128MB or greater);
• 20 MB hard drive space available.