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JustSo Photo Album : the User Interface
versions 1.3.4 - 1.9.2

Please also note that:

  • JustSo PhotoAlbum vers 1.4.0+, require JustSo Picture Window ver 3.0.0+ 
  • JustSo PhotoAlbum less than ver 1.4.0 requires JustSo Picture Window ver 2.1.9+ (but ver 3.0.0 is better!) 
  • Support of designers on Macs was added with ver 1.4.0 of JustSo PhotoAlbum.


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Photo Album Tips and Issues
- Examples of the JustSo Picture Windows this Command yields

- More DW extensions

Click on the image below to jump to help with each feature.


Title:
Will be displayed as the thumbnail page's Header if you choose to create a New doc, or as the Popup Window's title if you choose Current doc AND the Popup's Title is blank. top

Source folder:
All the images in this folder will be processed, non-images will not. No changes are ever made to the originals image files. This Command adds the option of sorting the images using an alpha/numeric sort algorithm. top

Thumbnails:
Click Macromedia's helpbutton (not here, on the real Command screen) for more info. Selecting "Show filenames" results in each imagefile's name being displayed with each image on the thumbnail page. top

Put thumbnails in:
The original Macromedia command automatically placed the thumbnails in a newly created index file. Indeed you can still choose this option here. Additionally, now you can choose to place the thumbnails, in their table, within a Layer on the Current page (Even one that is template-based, as the Command will - with your explicit permission - update the page's template.) You may liken this table-of-images in a layer to a flat of plants in a wheelbarrow. You may remove each plant (image) individually and place it on the page (with its JustSo Behavior intact) or you can remove the entire flat of plants (the entire table of images) and place it on your page (again with all the JustSo behaviors intact). top

Photo:
Select here your desired image format and quality for the fullsize images. Versions 1.6.2+ now offer the option of using an exact, unaltered, copy your original fullsize image. This is useful when your original image is already a compressed jpeg and you wish not to degrade the quality further. Click Macromedia's helpbutton (on the real Command screen) for more info on image quality. Versions 1.6.2+ also fix a bug in the Scaling option. top

Put photos in:
Clever javascript coding allowed the original MM command to offer the option of placing each full-size image (perhaps scaled) on its own html page with "previous/home/next" navigation links, along with the images (new and distorted) name. This command displays the imagenames in a more user-friendly format. Such navigation pages can be very useful, but in general has somewhat limited utility, it seems to me. The new option here is for the image to be placed on a JustSo Picture Window popup. This does not require a separate html page for each image (which may reduce site size by hundreds of pages,) although you do lose the navigation system. Several formatting options are available (see below). Finally, both new and old Commands also offer the option of simply calling a new browser window with the image unceremoniously plopped on it (in the upper left corner of the white background.) top

Thumbnails and Photos:
A great timesaver: to Allow overwriting of previously created thumbnails and (possibly scaled) full-size images. Without this, each time Fireworks attempts to save the image a dialog popups asking permission to overwrite the existing file. If you are experimenting with different options, like thumbnail size, or the scaling of the full-size images, you may want to use the Command repeatedly, and selecting Allow Overwriting will save you much tedium. top

The Created Folders:in v1.62+
This new feature makes it far easier to have multiple Albums on one site. Each album's assets are saved in a subfolder entitled the name of the document itself (without its file extension of course).top

JustSo Popups:
In version 1.4.0 we added colorpickers specific for DW3 vs DW4 (PC) and added a colorpicker for Mac users of DW4 (Mac users of DW3 will have to enter hex color values manually. (Note that in DW3 on a PC the colorpicker's icon does not change color.) Notice the Hug Image vs Fullscreen option. When HugImage is selected, the Popup window bearing the image will either a) wrap tightly around the image with no margin border or, b) if margin is set > 0 then it will resize itself to add a colored border around the image. If Fullscreen is selected then the Popup window will fill the screen. The Bgcolor picker allows you to select a websafe color for the border around the image, or you may manually enter any hex color you choose.
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